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A meteor shower goes down on the small village Berkeley & the
immediate surroundings, a meteor shower that turns many people into
zombies, & those who are not can be made into zombies easily should
the zombies decide to kill them ... you know the routine.
Trying to leave Berkeley, René (Felicity Mason) & her boyfriend
run into zombies, but while he is immediately killed, she puts up a fight,
& is ultimately saved by weirdo Marion (Mungo McKay), who carries so
many weapons one does get a slight hint he knows what's going on (later,
it turns out, he, a fisherman, was once before attacked by zombiefish, but
when he tried to tell his tale, nobody would listen, taking him for a
freak).
René follows Marion to his hut, where he seems to have emergency
quarters, & soon they are joined by 2 incompetent cops - Harrison
(Dirk Hunter) & Molly (Emma Randall) - & a hysteric young couple -
Wayne (Rob Jenkins) & pregnant Sallyanne (Lisa Cunningham) - ... &
of course some zombies join the party as well, only to be gunned down like
nobody's business.
Eventually, the sextet decides to hicde out in Marion's fall-out
shelter, but once locked in on a very confined space, tensions break out
between the 6 of them, plus the fact that they have no food doesn't make
the situation any easier, nor that Sallyanne's contractions set in, so
it's not long before they leave the shelter again, gun down dozens of more
zombies, get into the van & try to make it to the next hospital ...
only to find that they - & Berkeley as a whole - are blocked off the
rest of the world by a gigantic wall.
Cop Harrison tries to climb the wall, but falls off to his death, &
Molly turns into a zombie, only top be suddenly sucked up into the air ...
When our remaining quartet returns to Berkeley, to loot the supermarket
for supplies, of course more zombies attack, as well as some weeird
aliens, & suddenly Marion gets sucked into the air as well, & so
do several zombies, the other three though try to make an escape, Wayne in
an airplane, René & Sallyanne in the van. But the girls can't escape
the beam that sucks everyone in the air ... but up in the air the people
are actually healed of the zombie-infection by the aliens (who turn out to
be benevolent & who also built the gigantic wall to cordon Berkeley
off that's actually part of their spaceship). Only Wayne isn't sucked up
but makes it to the other side of the wall, even if he had to run over
quite a few floating people.
When everybody is unzombified, the aliens let them down again & fly
off, but Berkeley remains cordoned off from the rest of the country, now
by the military. & the next zombie infection is just around the
corner.
The Spierig brothers (who produced, wrote & directed this film) are
obviuosly fans of the zombie-genre, & have quite some ideas how to
make fun of it in a hommage-sort of way. However, once they are through
with the rather obvious jokes (about 20 minutes into the movie), there's
very little left storywise, as the whole alien plot is almost as
ridiculous (but in the wrong sort of way) & cheesy as Encounters of
the Third Kind, the gunplay, with lots of throwing pistols &
stuff, quickly grows tiresome & the finale witht he floating people is
simply underwhelming.
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