![]() ![]() 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. It can't come soon enough.Another zombie movie release, and of course I am here like a vulture. It all becomes a dull waiting game that's accompanied by a repetitive, obtrusive score as viewers hope that Mack will eventually find the right door and put a stop to all of this. He looks vaguely annoyed all the time and is mostly in an immobile sitting position. And while Muldoon plays scruffy hero Mack with a blast of energy and a cheeky attitude, Willis' performance is far too static. He's holding hostages and threatening to drown the town because he wants to talk to the cops who were involved with the death of his son and the imprisonment of his other son, which seems like something that could have been accomplished through far less extreme means. We never know where he is or what exactly he's doing.Ĭonversely, Deadlock does explain what the villain's motivation is, and it's. Unfortunately, rather than establishing the movie's space so that we know where everything is in relation to everything else, the movie has Mack running around pretty much at random, climbing up to catwalks, crawling down to sub-basements, and even running across an open field for some reason. The script even copies an idea from Die Hard with a Vengeance: that the hero is doing all his fighting and saving the town while suffering from a crushing hangover. This is yet another Die Hard knockoff - with Willis in the villain role this time - that does just about everything wrong, from strange motivations to poor use of space and an irksome music score. ![]()
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