Navy Seals vs. Zombies (2015)

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

If you're expected high end Nicotero type stuff, then don't bother. However if you're a true fan of the genre, you'll enjoy it. It's not the best I've ever seen but it's certainly not the worst!!!! That's still Psychos in Love.

I was confused from the very beginning - and I still am, a little bit. I notice that here the film is listed as "Navy Seals vs. Zombies." That makes perfect sense, because that title sums up the movie perfectly. I watched in on Netflix Canada though - and there it's listed as Navy Seals: The Battle For New Orleans." So I spent a lot of the 90 minutes wondering how New Orleans found its way into the title, since the whole movie is about a zombie outbreak in Baton Rouge - and as far as I can remember there wasn't a single reference to New Orleans in the entire movie. I notice that there are reviewers on various sites who say that this movie is about a zombie invasion of New Orleans. But it isn't. It's about a zombie outbreak in Baton Rouge. It's all very confusing. Did somebody somewhere (in coming up with that alternative title) not realize that New Orleans and Baton Rouge are not the same place?The confusion around the title notwithstanding, I found this surprisingly enjoyable. It's a fairly simple and straightforward, low budget movie with a largely unknown cast. You expect little out of it - you get more than you expect. There was one chuckle in this. The cable news network that was reporting on the outbreak was called "ZNN." Yeah. Too cute. At first you're kind of set up to believe that the outbreak is a result of an enemy attack using some sort of biological weapon - "to bring a superpower to its knees" as one character says. But it turns out that the biological weapon seems to have been created in a US government lab and it accidentally got out. I wasn't entirely clear on whether you had to actually die to become a "zombie" or just be infected through a bite. It was made clear that you had to shoot the zombies in the head to do away with them.Most of the movie is set in Baton Rouge (with a little bit at a Seals command centre in Virginia Beach) as a Navy Seals team enters the city and tries to evacuate (1) the Vice President, who's stranded in the city, and (2) scientists at the lab where the virus was created in the hopes that they might be able to make an antidote. Most of it is a pretty standard battle against the zombies. That's becoming a bit too routine, what with the zombie plague currently on the go on movies and television. But it's still a decent action flick, whose ending seems to be a bit of a tribute to US Navy Seals. If you're into the zombie genre, this is worth taking in. (6/10)

After a strange attack in the city, a Navy Seal operation dispatched into Baton Rouge to rescue the Vice President trapped inside find the area overrun by a horde of ravenous zombies raised by a chemical virus release and must find a way to get out of the city alive.This one here was quite an enjoyable and exciting zombie effort. One of the best parts here is the fact that there's quite a large amount of frantic military action within this one that makes for a rather thrilling set-up here. As the film starts off with the military group engaging in a rescue mission complete with their common tactics and engaging in several gunfights to accomplish this into a fun scene, while the later scenes of them taking over the building through the series of grandiose military tactics being employed here makes for a fun time as this one gives them the feeling needed to fully support the idea of them being such a well-trained unit believably so that the later scenes are that much more chilling and action-packed once the creatures get involved. Once we get the zombies involved here that becomes a lot more fun with the film going for a long series of action scenes here that may only be quick-shot encounters but manages to work them over simply by virtue of the quantity of the scenes here rather than the quality as it's mostly non-stop throughout here. From the initial scene of them running up to the building to overrun it and trap everyone inside which is quite a nice start, to the scenes of them fighting off the zombies running along the city streets while they take out the stragglers left behind which is some rather fun sequences as well, and then the film's best scenes where they have the race to the secondary building which features plenty of swarming brawls, a slew of fine gunfights and a rather fun getaway in a car mowing down the creatures which makes for a rather thrilling action-packed sequence. As well, the big finish at the end where they overtake the chemical labs and manage to really hold off the creatures and battle their way throughout the facility against the zombies makes for a thrilling, rousing finale here. Alongside the great zombie make-up and gore, these here give this a lot to like. Though this one is a lot of fun, it does have a few rather obvious and easily-spotted flaws. The biggest issue here is the fact that though there's plenty of action to be found here there's a rather stifling amount of time taken up between these encounters because of the brevity of these encounters. This one doesn't really go for the huge, long sequence until the end as the series of encounters here are so much shorter than expected that the gaps between them become all the more obvious against the action scenes. As well, the film's other problem is the fact that there's some utterly terrible CGI work here that manages to really distract and disappoint with the ability to really feature scenes and ideas like the gunshots and blood-splatter being the major culprit while the finale is so absolutely wretched that it sticks out as being wholly inappropriate and quite distracting to end it on that note. The running zombies might be an issue for some, but otherwise it's not as terrible as it could've been.Rated R: Graphic Violence and Graphic Language.

THe copy I am watching is titles Navy Seals: Battle for New Orleans. It takes place in Baton ROuge...What? Did no one think to look that up?The editing and continuity people should never be hired for anything over a pre-school production. From the muzzle fire to explosions to bullet hits, they are all completely sad. They show a car window being smashed out and later, that same window was in tact. The cast...Fat Seals? Really? Couldn't you get people who looked the part? They didn't even shoot realistically. Since when can you let off 3 round bursts without the gun moving at all? My God, even Ed Quinn seemed lost in this dung-heap of a movie. After all, there is only so much you can do with a badly written and directed script.Unless you want to punish yourself or have really bad vision and hearing, I can't recommend this movie to anyone...ever.