[REC]³ Genesis (2012)

hyped garbage

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

This movie left me disappointed because I definitely had better expectations following REC1 and REC2. The recording and shaky camera won't be there for the largest part, it's full of stupid/nonsense moments and the story isn't that engaging. They also added "funny" scenes for some reasons, totally breaking the suspense, therefore it won't even feel realistic at all. Too much splatter for my taste too. There are three positive things about REC3 though: it features great looking zombies, sounds are excellent, and fortunately it's short (only 80 minutes).

22 minutes until the title! Genesis refers to the less shaky filming style, nice look and amazing sound, chainsaw bride, emotional ending. Generic zombie film, 5 of these films and only Quarantine (2008) is worth watching, preposterous in places, stupid religious angle, not funny or scary.

I went into this movie with no expectations even tho I had seen the first two in the series. Does this movie compare to them, or even the fourth? No. But if you look at it as a stand alone film it's not bad at all. To me it's very reminiscent of 80s horror. The plot is easy to follow but really doesn't have anything to do with the other three movies. There's plenty of blood and gore but this movie just feels a lot lighter than the other three. Seeing the first two I never thought I would laugh as much as I did with this movie, but I was pleasantly surprised. I do get why people don't like this movie especially if you've see the first two Recs; it just doesn't compare. But if you take this film out of the series then it's not bad at all, even pretty good. It doesn't work as a Rec movie but as a zombie movie it hits the mark. So my suggestion is if you're going to watch this movie don't look at is as part of the Rec series; watch it as a stand alone zombie flick. And if you're watching the Rec series, skip this one.

(44%) The series that marks a high-point in the found-footage fad comes this decent little time-passer. At a mere 1 hour 20 minutes in length this is still a vastly over-long film for the plot that involves a somewhat typical, and I must say very lavish Spanish wedding that is invaded by zombie demons. And that's about it really. Pretty much the entire wedding ceremony is recorded hand-held style, then once things start to get messy (interesting) this then ditches it and moves into a standard shot film. It's pretty clear that the makers, like almost everyone else, have grown tired of that method of film-making to the point in which they actually mock sub-genre's flaws at one point. The mayhem featured is entertaining, but this is a hollow, quite childish gore flick that unlike the other films in the series this completely lacks all scares. Overall this is worth a look for fans and gore flicks in general, but it's too flawed and base to be a must watch.