Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis (2005)

Necrophilis is a scifi original dealing with an evil factory who produces trioxine and now a new generation of teens must take them on before they poison the entire world.While I appreciate the effort to give us a resident evil knockoff, it has none of the charm or style and good acting that made it a block buster.The kids are all good looking twenty year olds who attend high school, use four wheelers and walkies talkies to break in as if it were a walk in the park.The rules set up for the last there films are forgotten as a head shot now kills them and the has leaking from containers doesn't turn you into a zombie. It undermines the foundation these sequels are created on and could've easily been rewritten without hurting the pacing.It even rehashed the poor of three to use them in chemical warfare without worrying they could swell their numbers and take over the world.Acting wise it was standard television movie quality with stone cold faces and monotone voices. The chemistry was there in a few sequences, but their acting chops hadn't developed to keep it flowing.With a few rewrites, a new caste and a punk or alternative soundtrack it would be a fine sequel. The way it stands a guilty pleasure.

Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis as far as zombie movies go is not as bad as House of the Dead, Vampegeddon, Zombie Night, Vampires vs. Zombies and Zombie Nation, and I do remember Rave to the Grave being slightly worse, but it is a disgrace to the Return of the Living Dead series (the previous three movies vary in quality, but never to the same level of badness of Necropolis and Rave to the Grave).There is hardly anything good to say about it, other than that the zombie make-up was pretty good and the use of Alice Cooper's Cold Machines was cool and used appropriately. That's where any redeeming merits end. Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis is poorly-made, there is a distinct lack of atmosphere and everything just looks drab and cheap from the haphazard camera work, cheap and sometimes gratuitous gore and incomplete-looking effects. Apart from Cold Machines, the heavy rock soundtrack is over-bearing and takes one of the movie completely.The movie's direction is so flat it completely undermines any tension or suspense, while the script is so awkward-sounding and intelligence-insultingly dumb, tension and suspense is replaced by rapidly tiresome unintentional humour and the story is thin, dull, mind-numbingly stupid and often leads nowhere. The scary moments are all predictable and come off cheesily, and Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis does a poor job with the zombies, they should be the stars and heart of their movie but are severely under-utilised and when they do appear they are very goofy, lifeless and not menacing at all.Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis' characters are as thin as paper and so incredibly dumb they come off irritating, while the acting is a bad mixture of over-acting and going-through-the-motions, I found myself most annoyed by Peter Coyote. To conclude, there are worse zombie movies around but Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis is a disgrace to the series. 2/10 Bethany Cox

This movie was fantastic. I have it on DVD. This movie gave me the creeps. I prefer this one more than part 5. Overall, this movie has it's good and bad. But that's just my opinion. I personally don't mind watching this again and again. I personally find this movie good zombie movie.Spoiler: The only thing that bothered me was, the talking friend zombie and the babies in the jar. They looked like aliens in which I don't remember aliens being part of the franchise. Although I don't like comedy in a horror film. Especially one with more horror then comedy. I find the scene were the security guard calls this woman and she thinks, he's having sex while he's being killed off.

This movie is horrendous! It's undeniably one of the worst movies of all time it's up there with disaster/epic movies, return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Mangler and the others, Manos: the hands of fate looks like masterpiece in comparison to this mess. So now, after experiencing this nightmare I fell I MUST warn the other unfortunate souls who may be going through Return of the living dead series and are contemplating to watch part 4 of it. Don't do it! And here's top 5 reasons why.5. Why secret lab of a massive corporation, holding mass destruction weapons have no guards in it? There were like two fat perverts, college student and random guy with a gun in all the building "guarding" all the stuff they were developing for "world domination." What's the point of having "minimum" or "maximum" guard sectors if there aren't anyone to guard anything? Jeez...4. There are like hundreds of gaping plot holes and plot lines witch just go nowhere and are never explained so it's pretty much crystal clear that they were just making stuff up while they were going along - incompetent bastards. All the movie is like random mess of generic plots taken from any random movie they could get their hands on and I don't even talk about horror movies only - that would be too convenient.3. You can clearly tell they felt really confident while making this garbage - throwing in cocky dialog and smart-ass wannabe lines like - "Lead, follow or get out of the way" what does that even mean? It's like saying go, walk or stand in one place. Like "so"? What are you trying to tell? And they felt really proud of this line because they used it two times.2. Acting. Again, this movie has one of the worst acting performances of all time, everyone sucks, and you can see that they aren't even trying, they don't even care. Main villain smile all the freak-in time like he is a joker from batman with permanent grin on hes face and half of the cast talks through their teeth, you can see more emotion in local children play than here.1. Creators haven't watch any movies of the series, no kidding, they just assumed it works like all the other generic zombie flicks and gone along with that idea, but the problem is that Return of the living dead doesn't follow the exact formula of zombie movies and the main difference in the series is that you can't kill the zombies - if you want them gone you must burn them to ashes and even then you must be careful because if it comes in contact with any kind of entity - living or dead they get infected and you get more zombies. How long do you think it takes for them to break this main rule? How about 5 minutes? 5 minutes into the movie zombie gets shot in the head and he dies, and I would even be OK with that if they explained that like some other generation or type of that stuff but they don't - hell, they even show the classic containers at the beginning, the doctor even brings back to life a separate hand at one point - what the hell? How does it work? If separate limb can live without a body why can't it live when it's brains get bashed out? Does it make sense to anyone? Hell, they kill zombies with their BARE HANDS in this abomination of a movie. Morons made this mess...And if you're not convinced yet just remember that these are just top 5 - there are hundreds and hundreds of other little things which just pile up onto one another to make this THING unbearable to sit through. So don't watch it! You were warned!