Trejo fans be forewarned: despite being on the cover, he’s got about ten minutes of overall screen time. The writers also couldn’t help themselves from ripping off the uber-mutant zombie concept from Resident Evil while stumbling with the lack of proper CGI budget to raise their appearance from the level of something rejected by the Syfy channel. It’s weird, unnecessary, and turns otherwise excellent gore into gimmicky shtick that is distracting and disappointing. There was also a poor creative choice to make the zombie blood Pepto-Bismol pink. It’s as if Sean Patrick Flanery (the not Norman Reedus guy from The Boondock Saints) and Bill Pullman had a son in a coma, who still tried very, very, very hard to be a tough guy, but ultimately was about as intimidating as a wet loaf of Wonder bread with the on-screen charisma to match. The main problem being the casting of the nameless hunter. Zombie Hunter is above average but not without its flaws. Of course, their plan goes to hell pretty quickly and they are all left scrambling for their lives. They head out toward a local airport with the hopes of flying a Cessna to one of the uninhabited smaller islands off Hawaii to start anew. Of course, their makeshift sanctuary is ultimately overrun by the undead, and they are forced to flee. He is taken in by a ragtag group of survivors that include Trejo, as an axe-wielding priest, a stripper, the fat guy, the old guy, the hot doe-eyed girl next door, and her scrawny teenaged brother who makes DJ Qualls look robust by comparison. In fact, it’s a pretty damned decent film.Ī nameless hunter, desperately channeling his inner Mad Max, is found barely alive on the side of the road. Thankfully, Zombie Hunter can’t be counted as one of the abject failures. Now, not all of these new projects are, what we like to call in the biz, “good” ( Rise of the Zombies I’m looking at you), in reality some are downright dreadful. He’s probably the same age as your grandfather, but a smidge more Mexican, and way more badass. He was born eleven years before DisneyLand opened. Let me put that into some perspective for you. That’s rather remarkable considering that the man is just shy of seventy years of age. With more than forty-five items listed on IMDB slated for a 2012-2014 release, you can’t say that Trejo is resting on his laurels. He’s been in so many projects of late I’m pretty sure I just saw him play a super-absorbent tampon in a Tampax commercial. Danny Trejo certainly has whored himself out in his twilight years and I say that with the utmost respect.
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