![]() As the story builds, layers are peeled back to reveal a hidden depth underneath, complete with social commentary. ![]() To be fair, the movie ends more effectively than it begins. The film begins in a typically lazy fashion, throwing us into the zombie outbreak mid-story before flashing back 24 hours for no reason other than to “hook” you quickly without working for your attention like good movies do. Aleks Paunovic as a cartoonish Mad Max villain is also highly entertaining. Both turn in great performances given the material they are working with. Oscar winner Virginia Madsen and Dennis Haysbert slum it here as well. Unlike Metcalfe however, she is able to convey a measure of depth to her character that makes it seem like a defense mechanism rather than a character trait. She has a secret that she callously protects at the cost of others. His co-star, Meghan Ory is cute, intense and evasive. It doesn’t help that he is also surrounded by actors that are more talented. Of course, this is exactly what the writers of ‘ Dead Rising‘ want you to think, so that they can humanize him before the final credits, but unfortunately Metcalfe simply doesn’t have the charisma or the acting ability to pull this off. Rather than ambitious, Metcalfe’s Chase Carter just comes off as petty and unlikable. Watching him try to play a ruthless television reporter is laughable and distracting. He also looks like he’s still in his teens. He has an arsenal of three expressions, and two of them variations of shock. ![]() It looks like Metcalfe is perpetually standing in front of the headlights of an oncoming car. The problems with ‘ Watchtower‘ begin with it’s spectacularly lame leading man, Jesse Metcalfe. In other words, online streaming service Crackle has stolen the popular genre channel’s playbook and run with it, for better or worse. It has an all-star cast, craptacular makeup effects and just enough blood to barely qualify as a zombie film. ‘ Dead Rising: Watchtower‘ is zombie filmmaking the Syfy channel way. But Crystal has a dark secret, and the army has a hidden agenda. When it becomes clear that the drug is no longer effective and a zombie outbreak purges the town and infects its inhabitants, Chase, Jordon, grieving mother Maggie, and survivor Crystal battle their way out of the city before it gets firebombed. An anti-viral drug called Zombrex, that keeps the virus at bay, is being administered to those infected. Set between the events of Dead Rising 2 and Dead Rising 3, The story follows online reporter Chase Carter and his camerawoman Jordon as they cover the stories of the people inside of the walled-in quarantined area in Oregon, as the government (running an organization called FEZA – Federal Emergency Zombie Authority) attempts to contain a viral outbreak that turns people into ravenous zombies.
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