The United States is still gripped by fear of the zombie contagion, and certain shadowy forces are putting that fear to use for their own ends. It's up to journalist Chase Carter, and the small handful of people he can trust, to try and expose the truth, and potentially save the lives of over a million infected people.
A couple of weeks back, when I reviewed the first Dead Rising film, I made a comment to the effect that the movie would profit from jettisoning much of its plot and just focusing on the zany undead action. This film seems eager to prove the point. There are a couple of great zombie-fighting action scenes in this film, but unfortunately they're buried in a movie that's 80% focused on tedious political conspiracy malarkey. Malarkey that, at the end of the day, basically has no real pay-off or conclusion, and wastes some solid actors in the process. The lack of a real ending here is, I suspect, quite deliberate. For all that this is called Endgame, it seems likely that they originally hoped to do at least one more film after it. I mean, Resident Evil has managed six films, after all, so why not Dead Rising?
If you're a hard core zombie genre fan, then this is probably worth checking out, at least for the 15-20 minutes where it remembers to actually be a zombie film. Otherwise, you can skip it.
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