Evilution

2008
3.8| 1h26m| en
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An alien bacterium resurrects the dead on Earth.

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ShangLuda Admirable film.
Matrixiole Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.
Kamila Bell This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.
Marva It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,
Lokii321 ...because I need to have cry about the death of cinema. If Hollywood was a barrel and blockbusters like Greenmile and Star Wars floated on the top, this movie would be scraping the bottom of said barrel!!This is not even a 'B' Movie, in fact I am not even sure the movie knows what it is. I did not want to be too negative about this movie, so I looked for something good to say about it, but unfortunately I could not find anything even remotely fine about this pile. Maybe barrel was the wrong metaphor, maybe more of a waste paper basket because this movie is garbage. From the outset the sound has an odd echo, the picture has an odd dark tint to it, the effects and cinematography (if you can call it cinematography) are appalling.Oh! I did find one great thing about the movie, the end few seconds of the credits. The movie for a start is called 'Evilution' it starts with three poorly made up zombie looking creatures in Iraq. Then you assume it comes back to the states! However 30-40 minutes into the movie all we have seen so far is the main character settling into his new home. The action if you can call it that is in the last 25 mins of a 82 minute movie. But I did not see any real 'Evil' or 'Evolution' of evil which the title of the movie states.Also don't be drawn in by the movie poster, it completely misleads you as to anything that happens in the movie. This movie makes Sharknado 1,2 & 3 look like a Hollywood Blockbuster or at best a Michael Bay movie. The activity I took part in after watching Evilution was far more exciting I am afraid to say. But then again someone has to empty the trash in my apartment!!
JoeB131 Because we don't get nearly enough of those, right? If anything, this movie is quite disjointed. For instance, there is the character of the apartment building manager, who is this effete intellectual philosopher who seems to have no place running a seedy, inner city hotel. I say this, because it is obvious this trash was produced by Europeans, and this is probably how they see America.The long and short is that the Army has acquired an alien virus, and tested it on people, turning hundreds into Zombies in Iraq before a smart bomb blew them all up. Then a Captain in the research project returns to the states and starts all over again, because, hey, it worked out so well the first time. He injects the virus into a gangbanger, and a junkie self-medicates with the rest, until the entire building is overrun with zombies.I think there is supposed to be something about the aliens wanting to communicate... Not sure, I think it was lost in all the gore.
Seb In an army base guarded by two soldiers there's this alien virus, if you inject it into someone they turn into a zombie. All of a sudden a bespectacled nerd breaks out of the lab with the virus and he's away, out of Iraq and to some slum with only three different scenes. Here you'll meet a massively desperate divorcée, a tiresome gang and a pointless junkie. The army plan of dropping a bomb on the whole thing starts to look pretty good about this point. I couldn't get over how totally disinterested the main actor seemed, he's supposed to be fired up on a mission to inject his mad scientist virus but mopes around like some guy who has been dragged to the shops on a Saturday morning by his wife.There's very little story here and although the scenes of zombies munching people are done reasonably well its hard to really care about the half dozen characters living there.The ridiculously grandiose ending lost it a couple of points from me because it's fair enough to make a substandard zombie flick but it's not OK to do that and then act as though you have created some thought provoking masterpiece. This reminds me a bit of Mulberry Street except that's a good movie and this absolutely isn't. The cover also bears no similarity to film, always a hallmark of a film that the producers know deep down wasn't really good enough.
Nyx_Selene I never thought I would say this, but this movie is actually worse than "House of the Dead". I was eating dinner while watching it, and it still made me fall asleep twice.The story: Scientist finds alien (or so I'm told) and tries to use it as a weapon (what else?), by having it re-animate dead soldiers. The re-animated people turn into flesh-eating zombies, some buildings blow up, leaving only the nerd alive, he moves to a pretty disgusting apartment building, then we get to enjoy some silly over-acted acting, some "scary gang" of 3 guys that couldn't frighten a 4-year-old, and the most over-acted military hit-man of the year. Nerd tries to perfect the alien/virus/whatever, after that it turns into "28 days later" for a short while and then comes the predictable, laughable ending.This movie is uninteresting at best. The concept has been done numerous times before, but better, leaving this try at it clichéd and completely unfrightening. Had it had some kind of comedy twist or at least been bad in a way to make it funny, it might (using the term in it's most extreme meaning) have worked, but the most unforgivable thing about it, is that it's just too boring. Too can't-keep-my-eyes-open-for-the-love-of-life boring.