Episode 140: Zombie Fight Club

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A real mess of a movie from Joe Chien who brought us Zombie 108 (another real mess of a movie). Taipei, and in a high rise building reminiscent of every other high rise building from every other zombie movie criminals and the locals live side by side. We have stories running in parallel, kidnappers have kidnapped a businessman for ransom, a drug dealer gets his new stash as he is visited by a rapper friend, a birthday party for a local teacher is attended by nubile friends of his daughter, and a SWAT team that is 99% corrupt head in to take out a drug gang.
Not that we see it but the drug turns you into a standard flesh eater, and then anyone bitten turns into one too. The violence is brief and good when it happens, the CGI effects are all computer games circa 2000 level, and the last third of the movie makes so little sense in the scheme of things we get 4!!! Title cards an hour in to explain what has gone on. I won't ruin it for you here, you will have to listen.
There was no obvious lead characters for a chunk of the movie, we had Jessica C who missed 7 people being turned and eaten and killed in her small apartment as she is listening to her headphones, and Andy On, the 1% good cop who does ask if they should even be there... what? Stealing a hold all of money from drug dealers after killing them all? But neither were decent enough characters. On was only straight laced, but was good in a fight, and C was just too painfully thin and painfully whiny, screaming and whimpering at everything she sees. I cared more for his character than hers, and neither as much as the kidnapper and his GF, who Chein wrote out of the story with hackneyed pointless side plots.
3.5/10 and now I need to watch something that makes sense. Naked Lunch anyone?