If you don't enjoy either, this probably isn't the best review for you. I will preface this review stating that the zombie genre is my favorite and have seen most of them, the low budget ones specifically. It's not that it's so bad it's good it's just bad. #Subvert zombie movieThis movie wouldn't deserve consideration by Rifftrax. But I'd lay 10 to 1 odds I didn't and the dog's potty was more thrilling. Fortunately I was distracted by phone calls, email, messages, and taking out the dogs to potty, so it is possible I missed something incredible. Considering that the writer/writers thought this was clever and an emotional inducement to watch this tells you that the writing suffers along with the plot. "Must pull together for a fighting chance" - clue number 2. It's the tagline,'"As a zombie virus breaks out, one ragtag group of trapped elevator passengers must pull together for a fighting chance of survival against an infected rider and the clever horde that awaits them outside." "Ragtag?" Whenever you see 'ragtag' in a movie description made in the last 40 years, it's almost guaranteed to be a stinker. Here's the first clue you find before the movie starts that let's you know how bad it's going to be. My only fear is that I would be trapped in an elevator with this group of bad actors and unable to open the door to welcome the zombies. Remember when you were 5 and someone hid and jumped out at you? That was scary! This movie is not. I didn't find much enjoyment in this 2020 zombie movie, but perhaps you will. My rating of "Deadlocked" ends on a four out of ten stars. The movie had the right intentions and the drive, but the transition from script to screen just didn't play out all that well. In terms of entertainment value, then "Deadlocked" just felt like a swing and a miss for me. I mean, sure you can tell that the actors and actresses are not at the top shelf, but they performed well enough with the restrictions imposed upon them by the script and plot. At least that was something that definitely worked well in favor of the movie. And while the movie takes place during the first hours of a zombie outbreak, director Josh Bailey did manage to keep the zombies interesting enough, I mean that they weren't heavily decayed and decomposed shambling corpses. However, the movie just doesn't have the contents or the energy to make it to the big league. "Deadlocked" feels like an ambitious low budget project actually made right by director Josh Bailey. But hey, such are most zombie movies, just dropping the audience right into the chaos, and not bothering with providing an explanation or anything. Much less give you any sense of this being a realistic way that the movie is set up, as I would assume there would have been things leading up to the massive event, and it wouldn't just occur out of the blue. But the storyline just doesn't provide the audience with any information as to how or why it happens. Being trapped inside an elevator, while the world falls apart outside does seem interesting, sure. In fact, the movie ended up being rather monotonous and mundane, truth be told. Sure, the concept idea for the script and storyline was good, but the transition to the screen just didn't have that special ingredient to make it jump out in your face and leave a lasting impression. Sure, most of the movies in the zombie genre tend to be rather lousy, but still I sit down to watch it, as chance would have it perhaps the current movie is gold. I do love everything even remotely zombiesque. Another zombie movie release, and of course I am here like a vulture.
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