Osombie (2012)

Osombie, the story of a group of marines and a yoga instructor who stranded in Iraq hunting down Middle Eastern zombies. On the surface this sounds like a dumb, implausible and annoying movie but in reality this is entertaining from start to finish. It's original, the dialogue is fluid and realistic, the graphics are great though fairly cheesy and dangers the team is put in is refreshing. From team members turning into zombies while holding grenades to fighting zombies in a land mine field to having zombies on one side and enemy soldiers on the other this is a great and relentless action flick.I expected this to be a dumb afternoon matinée but by the end of it I was ready to buy it off amazon. It's easily one of the best zombie films I've seen in a long time and I make no exaggeration in saying I've seen all of them.The team is logical and realistic without any typical movie drama and a complete lack of stupid typical movie mistakes. There's no pointless nudity, no unnecessary language and the gore is kept in control which is just amazing to have in a modern zombie flick.This is a really great flick and should be watched by anyone who enjoys action or zombie flicks. I really can't express how surprised I am by this and how much I recommend it.

One of the hypes on youtube for the trailer only. I was looking forward to see it because I liked the story about Osama coming back as a zombie. But I have seen thousands of flicks from the early eighties until now and I must say that I just couldn't care about it. It's weird that it even has given so many positive reviews and that people really liked it. But for me it was just shooting with really bad CGI effects towards Taliban zombies coming out from everywhere. They looked okay but even there, once they are being shot it is always the same CGI effect.Maybe it is again people coming from the states who liked this flick because their country was being hit by Al Quida and even afterwards they came across the Taliban. So maybe they liked it because they could laugh with Osama again.People do defend it by saying that it was a low budget flick and I admit, you can easily spot it due the CGI. Here and there it is okay but overall it bored me a lot. And again, it bored me due the , sigh, CGI. This could have been indeed the zombie hit of the year but for me it failed completely. No gore at all, there is indeed red stuff but not to mention and when people are being taken in close up after been bitten by the Taliban you only see blood running. Sorry mates, maybe it must be me getting old but give me a cheap flick from the seventies I will dig it but Osombie, the overall look was worse, it did look like a really bad SyFy flick or ne of The Asylum, do I need to say more?Gore 0,5/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 1/5 Story 2/5 Comedy 0/5

This movie was something I accidentally stumbled upon and had high hopes but was truly disappointed. While I enjoy Zombie and gore movies as much as the other guy, I also appreciate some cinematic finesse thrown in. Unfortunately Osombie tries to survive on a single interesting idea with flat characters and an even flatter story. The movie itself is quickly summarized, Osama Bin Laden supposedly "alive" as a Zombie, guy goes to kill him, his sister goes after him and meets some soldiers along the way in a zombie- infested Afghanistan. While this might be a lot of fun (think Dead Snow) it is not since the action is poorly dramatized, you never really feel that there is any real threat coming from the zombs. Also none of the characters offer any particularly likable traits why you would root for them.Overall this movie was uninspired and while it had some nice CGIs and obviously some budget it really failed to create a story arc that would allow me to call this flick entertaining.

I went to the bother of signing up just to review this 'cos i think it deserved more than the 4.5* it has.Firstly this is definitely a B-movie so u have to go in expecting that. I usually don't like B-movies like you get on SyFy but i do like zombies movies so i thought i'd give this a chance, and i'm glad i did.The premise is pretty simple... a group of soldiers looking for a militia base in zombie infested Afghanistan. Sure its silly but it works fine.At first i thought the acting sucked but it wasn't long before i changed my mind, i'm not saying it's going to win an Oscar but it was a lot better than the crap SyFy puts out, i got the impression the actors had fun and weren't just phoning it in, and i found myself giving a crap about the characters. t's a pity that being a zombie movie so many people had to die because i would definitely have watched a sequel with the same cast.There are some bad point sure, there are some major plot holes but i was kind of expecting that. I think the thing that bugged me most was the cgi, not the blood and gore cgi that was pretty good, but the helicopters that don't disturb the grass when they land and the cg muzzle flares rather than guns firing blanks. As most reviewers have pointed out the zombie makeup was pretty decent.I don't know why people complain about the chick with the sword, the soldiers knew they were going to be going up against zombies and given that i think a sword is a perfectly reasonable weapon.If you like B-movies or zombie movies definitely check it out, it kept my attention for the whole movie.