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A zombie outbreak has shattered the country, maybe the world, and General Vasquez (Robert Lasardo) holds one of the few areas not yet overrun by the undead as a river separates it from the epicenter. But of late more and more reports have shown that the zombies are approaching the last bridge to that strip of land, and Colonel Charon (Michael Paré) of the civil guard has so far been unable to summon up the promised re-inforcements. So the General sends a platoon to secure the bridge, which cannot be lost at any rate as it's pretty much the leap-off point for the army to win back the country. But that platoon runs into all kinds of trouble, from a refugee camp on the other side of the bridge led by Big Jim Gill (William 'Bill' Connor) refusing to retreat to safer grounds to losing all their supplies to heavy losses including the platoon's commander to leave relatively inexperienced Private Hernandez (Kate Watson) of the operation. And all the while the zombies are approaching, and if that's not enough there's a creature (Lance Brazil) living under the bridge even more dangerous than a bunch of the undead ...

Genre fave Sarah French plays a girl in the refugee camp the soldiers save from an attempted rape, which curiously enough immediately gets them at odds with the people of the camp.

One might not immediately be attracted by this movie's focus on the army and army operations of this movie, and I know I wasn't at first, but that's really doing the film injustice as this isn't just an over-long recruitment clip à la Top Gun but much more of a character piece on how desparate situations bring the best out in some, the worst in others, within  and without military ranks. And that the whole thing's nicely filmed and finds just the right balance between action and suspense needed for the story, and features a solid ensemble that grounds the thing makes this just a very cool piece of genre cinema.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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