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TheQuietGamer
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死亡扳机 - 评论

This is the laziest thing I've ever seen. Not only is it about as generic as a zombie flick can get, but you can tell nobody involved cared enough to put any real effort into it. The entire cast gives unenthusiastic, "just here for the money" performances and the directors couldn't be bothered to do anything more than throw the scenes onscreen in the most perfunctory ways possible. Case in point, one of the biggest plot threads in the movie is that the government is recruiting teenagers who are good at video games to combat the infected (which is stupid). In the instances where one of these characters is supposed to be gaming all we get is a shot of them sitting completely still while wearing a VR headset. They don't even hold a controller. The action is also half-heartedly executed. It's a loop of the actors aimlessly pointing automatic weapons at groups of the undead that don't always react to getting riddled with bullets. Occasionally someone will break out a machete or something, but the first time it happens you realize that the film doesn't adhere to the cardinal rule of zombie cinema; brain destruction being the only thing that can stop a reanimated corpse. I could go on and on about all the things this movie does wrong, like how dumb the barely existent storyline is or the ending not making any sense at all, but what really bothers me about the whole thing is that they simply didn't try. The filmmakers weren't inept at their job. Rather everyone attached to the project was only interested in the paycheck and wanted to exert themselves as little as possible while making it. So what we ended up with was a slapped together final product clearly devoid of passion. Which to me is far more offensive than if it had just been bad.