Why? Just ....just why? This film, and the one that proceeded it are just too horrible for words. The first Return is a classic of the zombie genre, the second one sucked, the third was alright, but still not great, and then they released this tepid pile of crap. Almost nothing makes sense throughout this entire movie. How soldiers could be so stupid to let a group of teenagers into a government facility the way they do is beyond me. And you'll be rooting for every single character in this movie to die in horribly painful ways. Their is not a likable person among them at all. And remember the zombies from the second Resident Evil movie? Yeah, me too. They make an appearance near the end in a how the hell did they get away with this without copyright infringement rip off. If you're gonna see ANY movie in this series, stick with parts one and three. Skip the second fourth and fifth films. You'll wish a zombie were chomping on YOUR brain otherwise.

After a motorcycle accident, a mysterious abduction leads a group of friends to break into a secure chemical complex that's experimenting with bringing the dead back to life and accidentally free them upon the facility forcing them to escape it's zombie-filled halls to get out.This was quite the fun and enjoyable effort that has a lot to like about it. One of the better features of this one is the rather enjoyable action here, which is incredibly fun for this one containing as much as it does. The entire second half here is practically built around action scenes which begins with the break-in here to their search of the facility grounds before the zombies are unleashed, which is the really enjoyable part of all this. Their initial release where they overwhelm the guards, the creatures overtaking the lobby and the swarming of the personnel makes for some highly exciting and thrilling scenes in here, and when combined with the action scenes against the group of friends makes this all the more fun. The fun here extends to a healthy amount of chasing through the building, shootouts attempting to escape and failing victim to traps laid out where the zombies get the drop on the gang trying to get out which make this all sorts of fun while also providing the kind of thrilling action needed to give this one the relentless pace this film features. Combined with the use of the deformed mutants and the police's containment efforts, these here are what work nicely in this section. Likewise, the fantastic make-up work on the zombies and the natural prosthetics used for the wounds and gore all make-up the film's good points which are enough to overcome he minor flaws here. The biggest flaw here is the incredibly contrived nature that sets this one in motion, which seems a bit too unrealistic to occur in this manner and seems far-fetched on the whole. The only other flaws to this one is the rather extended amount of time that occurs before anything stats as this one gets way too overlong with the shady experiments and the group hanging out beforehand which just slows this one down. The finale saves it, which is enough for this one to get a lot right about it.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language, and children-in-jeopardy.

Necropolis...a great name for film title but I'm afraid the franchise has lost its impetus with this next installation. Again naughty people are trying to use the deadly toxic gas to reanimate the dead and use for military weapons but once again it all goes wrong and the undead run amok...oh geez.We are now firmly in B-movie land with this one, the acting is quite terrible from all members including Peter Coyote and the plot is just a rehash against a different backdrop. The only thing going for this is the well done makeup effects which is just as good as the previous films and makes the film better than it deserves to be. These films are all about the cool hands on makeup effects lets be honest, and they all deliver consistently. This is the one thing these sequels manage to pull off despite the fact they rehash everything else. In that aspect they just about hold your attention if you're a monster/gore lover but the rest is usually pants.Nice idea and design for the undead Terminator style soldiers, a small plus point in a sinking film. One has to ask ones self how many more of these can they do? they are clearly trying to utilize every possible backdrop for the zombie outbreaks, I guess a desert setting will be next, haven't seen that yet.3/10

A bunch of teens breaks into an evil corporation's HQ to rescue their buddy, and end up unleashing a plague of zombies on the world. That's the basic plot of ROTLD: NECROPOLIS, and it stinks to high heaven. Peter Coyote appears in this as a nutty scientist, and God only knows what he must have been thinking! He reanimates a severed arm encased in a Lucite box sitting on a work table, and sort of teases it as the hand lunges at him. The real joke is, you can see that the arm belongs to someone sitting under the box and table. I've seen worse -- HOUSE OF THE DEAD and some of those nickel-and-dime Italian zombie flicks come to mind -- but this one is virtually unwatchable.