Sars Wars: Bangkok Zombie Crisis (2004)

A different way of telling a story

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Well this is no "Dead Alive" (aka "Braindead") or "Shaun of the Dead", but it is a rather good attempt at a zombie comedy from Thailand. "Sars Wars: Bangkok Zombie Crisis" goes a step or two too far into the extreme where they pass comedy and drops into downright stupidity at times. Which is a shame, because those moments really deliver a hard blow to the overall enjoyment of the movie.Funny, I never knew that SARS turned people into zombies, but I guess it did in Thailand...The story is about a bug escaping from Africa and making its way all the way to Thailand where it delivers a fatal bite to a guy and a zombie outbreak spreads rampart in an apartment building. In this building Khun Krabii is out to rescue Liu, the daughter of a rich man, while Master Thep has managed to sneak in there disguised as a member of the task force.The characters in the movie are colorful and funny, and they are well brought to life on the screen by the actors and actresses hired to play them. The dialogue in the movie is funny as well and it is full of self-irony and one-liners. Which just adds to the enjoyment of this over-the-top zombie comedy.As for the zombies in the movie, well then they were actually nicely made, although I didn't understand the reason for their vampiric fangs. That was just odd. As this is a comedy, don't except too much gore and mayhem. There is a little bit in the movie, just enough to make it clear that this is a zombie movie and enough to make it funny.Vibrant characters, a fast-paced story, good effects and an overall crazy mood makes for "Sars Wars: Bangkok Zombie Crisis" to be enjoyable and fun to watch.

Thai comedy can be painfully funny. There is often a sense that anything goes so long as it gets a laugh, the result is wild crazy out of left field quality that is totally endearing. A perfect example of this is this movie.The plot has a mutation of the Sars virus that turns people into flesh eating zombies getting loose in an apartment complex in Bangkok. The zombies present complications for a kidnapped girl and her rescuers who are trying to flee the building.Bloody, over the top and very silly this is the sort of knowing comedy that more often than not fails to work in other films. Here the balance between blood and laughs if finely balanced, or at least piled on so thick that there is enough good stuff with the bad that you can't help but find something to laugh at. From references to the George Romero zombie films, Star Wars to martial arts spectaculars and Italian horror films this is a movie that steals from the best and puts it all together into a gumbo of entertaining proportions.Its not perfect, there's often too much going on, and the filmmakers don't always feel the need to have the film make sense, but its an enjoyable romp for those who can take the blood and body parts.

I didn't know what to think going into SARS WARS, except that I didn't think I'd really dig it all that much. I'm not a huge horror/comedy fan (although there are a few that are brilliant) so I wasn't sure if I'd enjoy this one very much. I have to say, I was VERY pleasantly surprised. SARS WARS is completely off the wall - and though very derivative in terms of most of the films "elements" - it pulls everything together nearly flawlessly...Apparently the SARS virus has mutated into it's fourth strain that turns people into zombies. Thailand was unaffected until some bug flew in carrying the disease and bites a local resident. Next thing ya know all hell breaks loose in an office building where the virus is quickly being transmitted. Into this mix - throw in a bungled kidnapping plot and rescue attempt, a giant mutated snake, an acrobatic zombified baby, and a building full of zombies...yeah - you can't really miss with that combination.The best part about SARS WARS is that it is genuinely funny. Like laugh-out-loud funny. The jokes work in this one. They don't feel overly forced (except in 2 or three parts where the actors address the fact that they're in a cheezy horror film - I HATE when that is thrown into films...) and again - even though many of the elements of the film are lifted from other films, it still feels fresh. I'm takin' 1\2 a point off for the irritating "hey we know we're in a cheezy B-film" references and another 1/2 point for the fact that there isn't 1 shred of nudity even though there are some scenes that would have easily called for it...other than that - I can't really find fault in this one. If you dig BRAINDEAD, EVIL DEAD 2, PLAGA ZOMBIE: MUTANT ZONE, and other zombie/comedies - you'll dig this one too...9/10

...is almost as good as the original! This is a very stupid movie. The jokes are horrible, and the plot isn't much to speak of. However, I totally love it for these reasons; There is a lot of zombie mayhem in this movie. And I mean a lot. Although the zombies, for some reason, had fangs and could run (which in general is a no-no), I absolutely loved them.The movie makers must've had distance to themselves, and not taken themselves too seriously. Had they done that, and tried to make the first Thai zombie epic, they may have failed, and a fall from that high would be much worse. Sure, the comedy in this movie is stupid, but it's becoming of the style.So, this in an all-out splatter feast with lots of immature antics thrown in for good measure, and I highly recommend it.