Episode 350: Extinction: The GMO Chronicles (2011)

A 2011 German effort on YouTube for me now. Extinction: the GMO Chronicles. GMO = Genetically Modified Organism. And we meet hero Tom, a former Spec Ops operative who casually drove around the city on day zero, ignoring pleas for help, before taking up resident in a disused US missile base from the cold war era. He does that annoying and obvious Vlogging thing to a laptop, and says there are no other survivors. Cue the survivors!

We gain elderly American former NSA spook Bill, his estranged German daughter Lisa and her dickwad of a boyfriend Martin. Martin is a very "don't look at my girlfriend!" kinda guy. We then gain Zara a nurse, and then Max and his nerdy brother David before two separate zombie attacks drive them out of their camp. Why? In this movie the zombies evolve. We start with boring day walkers that nap at night, then get day runners, then night runners, then a blind screamer, then parkour zombies, and finally night vision parkour zombies. Phew! It is like Dead Island all over again.

Tom is looking for his sister, but she is zeke, and they gain a baby for their efforts, the most dangerous thing in the zombie apocalypse is a baby. And worse still, all the nuclear power stations are going to go critical soon. Shit!

Ok. This did have some good bits. I did like the blowing the zombie up in the car scene. I did like the zombie evolution. However, the terrible cuts, and making poor Germans act in English in a German film was cruel, and caused this to be scored down.

It is a 5/10 for me, so still ok. Better than a lot I have seen, but not that much better that I need to see it more than once.