Exit Humanity (2011)

So much average

Powerful

Just perfect...

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

The story is told from the journal of Civil War soldier, Edward Young (Mark Gibson). It includes excessive boring narration. Rather than just let the story unfold, the narrator tells you what you are seeing. It grates on you after the first 30 minutes.After a quick 1865 scene where a single Union soldier is a zombie, the movie jumps to 1871 and there is a minor zombie infestation. Edward had to kill his own wife (Sarah Stunt) and son, the later in an emotionally gripping scene as he holds his zombie son (Christian Martyn) in his arms (facing away) as he reluctantly puts a gun to his son's head... all the while his son is trying to eat his face off. Somehow I didn't feel it.Bits and pieces of the story is told through animation, which unfortunately was far better than the main feature. Edward has tasked himself in taking his son's ashes to a waterfalls, something he had promised him when he was alive. There is an unwritten rule that all promises terminate with any zombie infestation, apparently not known in the 19th century. The story involves his journey to get there and the people/zombies he meets up with along the way.Dee Wallace, the closet thing to an actor in this film gives us a career killer performance as she emotionally explains the origins of the living dead. It was tough to sit through. The film utilizes the sad piano/violin sound track for way too much of the production.Zombie fans should avoid this one. I was confused as I couldn't tell if the film was a bad zombie film or a bad drama with zombies.No f-bombs, sex, or nudity. Zombie make-up was good where it was applied, exposed necks are optional.***POSSIBLE PLOT SPOILER*** The film attempts to come across as a prequel for zombie films. It does a very poor job. It tells you zombies were created using African spells. But at the same time refutes that idea by making it seem zombies are caused by a virus, with one person in the film having natural immunity, and the infection spreading by a saliva/blood contact. You can't have it both ways.

My summary statement is not accurate; I couldn't get through more than 25 minutes of the movie it was so boring! Twenty five minutes of crying felt like twenty five years. Casting call - need male lead who can cry for an indeterminate long time. Must be able to cry in post-bellum Southern-American English. I wonder if there were a lot of takes on those crying scenes. It's likely that the director finished with an initial edited movie of no more than 17 minutes and he had to pad it out. Maybe I'm being unfair in my assessment of the movie but if one is completely bored to death for the first 3rd of the movie then it's too much to ask the viewer to finish it.(I don't know how Stanley Kubrick got away with it in "2001, a Space Odyssey)". (Even with being on hold with my heath provider that whole time I was still too bored to see it through). Sound track - not for a zombie film, it sounded like they hired a 2 fingered keyboard player. For those reviewers that loved the movie, I suspect they were ringers, friends, cast and crew members and, without a doubt, the backers (maybe not the backers cause this was so low budget it didn't need backers.) The only thing remotely original in this train wreck of an abortion: the concept of having a crybaby as the lead in a zombie movie... never been done before. And for that reason I give it a one star instead of a zero.Initial movie title - "OH! The Humanity."

Settled down to watch this today and it really is a couple of hours of my life I will never get back.I just didn't enjoy it... I had no connection with the characters and the zombies weren't particularly scary which makes the whole film kind of pointless when you don't care if the main character gets killed.The story is pretty lame too and the opening scenes don't really put anything into context.All in all not to good an experience. The film only cost $300'000 to make and to be honest you can see it in the costumes and make up. I lost interest once the main character pulled on what resembled a 20th Century Biker jacket when it is set during the ACW?

Unfortunately, Geddes trots out every zombie cliché, hoping that a little 'Ken Burns' gloss can make it seem like an original take. Sorry – after the previous decade of 3rd-party perspective, secondary characterexploration and vampire/zombie treatments of classic literature, the POV is waaay beyond played.Just trying to view the film on as a straightup zombie tale , ignoring the borrowed comic-book flourishes and delusions of Tarantino - it still becomes unwatchable. A hero with an endless supply of ammo, wary of attack yet constantly and obviously strolling into danger....it would be a snore – except the threadbare plot is too annoying to let the viewer sleep.