So much pro's and much more contra's. I can understand why, it starts nicely with some kind of zombies attacking a person. It is really gory in some ways and the use of colors in post production via color grading made it a bit arty. It reminded me a bit of Walhalla Rising. There is even not that much spoken words but then the movie suddenly turns into a battle flick. It is somewhere between Resident Evil and I Am Legend and so much more so yes, we have seen it all before but the problem I had is that it as I said suddenly changed from gory zombie fights into normal fights. And the last part takes too much i this flick so it's more science fiction than horror. It do has his moments but somehow it couldn't really convince me.

There's a moment at the beginning of this movie that is sublimely silly. A guy with a mop top hair cut and a Grizzly Adams' beard rides his bicycle through the forest, silently killing zombies with a pair a hatchets and a homemade javelin while speaking to his dead father in voice-over narration. If The Vanguard had been that defiantly peculiar all the way through, I think I would have really enjoyed it. Sadly, the film collapses in on itself after that interestingly odd beginning and turns into a very cheap, very lame and very badly written rip off of The Omega Man. Yeah, that's right. I can't give writer/director Matthew Hope the credit to say he's done an homage to the original book written by Richard Matheson, the first film version starring Vincent Price or the third adaptation starring Will Smith. No, this thing can only be fairly linked to the schlocky 70s version of I Am Legend starring Charlton Heston, with just a pinch of theft from 28 Days Later for seasoning.As you might guess, this is a zombie picture. In this case, the zombies aren't actually dead. They're humans infected by an evil corporation that took over the world when society collapsed after all the oil ran out, which according to this movie happens in about 5 years. So, I guess we all should start ordering those "survival seeds" advertised on the Glenn Beck Show. Anyway, the infected humans are called Biosyns, have an awful case of varicose veins all over their bodies and act like ticked off orangutans.In this derivative zombie apocalypse world, we meet Max (Ray Bullock Jr.). He's the aforementioned mop top Grizzly Adams. Max's life seems to consist of wandering around the forest killing zombies, sleeping in a tent surrounded by a crude wooden fence that wouldn't keep out a three year old child, whining via voice-over narration to his dead dad about sundry things and waiting around for a guy named Hareem Jabbar. Max eventually runs into Jamal (Shiv Grewal), an Arab/Indonesian-looking guy that's a solider for the evil corporation who has apparently gone rogue. I say "apparently" because why, how and from what Jamal has gone rogue is never all that clear.Max and Jamal team up like this is a buddy cop movie and then encounter Zac and Rachel (Steve Weston and Emma Choy), a soldier and a scientist who are fugitives from the evil corporation. How these four end up together is like something out of a Three Stooges' short. They proceed to wander around the forest and engage in some enormously feeble attempts at serious drama. It's hard to get into any more details than that because, frankly, the last half of this movie doesn't make a whole lot of sense. The characters spout dialog that's almost gibberish and do things that serve no logical or reasonable purpose. Long after my interest was exhausted, some supposed secrets were revealed, some people died and it ends with a line of dialog that includes the name of the film, as in "Oh, that's why they called it The Vanguard".The acting in this isn't all that bad, though there are a few moments where the performers seem to think that showing emotion and random facial twitching are the same thing. The direction is essentially competent, though it appears that 90% of the instructions writer/director Hope gave the cast consisted of "Run over here! Now run over there!" The Vanguard is also a pretty cheap-looking movie, though the soundtrack is quite effective at setting the mood of the story.The overwhelmingly execrable execution of that story, however, puts a stink on this film all the tomato juice in the world couldn't wash out. There were parts where I genuinely wondered how a human being could have written something like this, with scenes that look, sound and feel more like they were coughed up by a faulty screen writing app for somebody's iPhone.The kindest comment I can make about The Vanguard is that a cast and crew with some talent tried to make a movie with very little money and a truly horrible script. They failed to produce anything watchable but they didn't leave me angry at completely wasting my time.

I agree that I wish we could give a ZERO! This is not even remotely scary or "horror". It didn't make me "think". It doesn't make you contemplate an apocalyptic future. It doesn't do anything except make you wonder when it is actually going to get good and make it worth your time. Biggest waste of 90 minutes ever!!! The acting is awful. The character of Max is not worthy of caring about. The whole "savior" coming to help him is only a brief blip in the last few minutes and then it doesn't explain why he doesn't trust this person he's been waiting for. The scenes with Max's mother are pointless. It doesn't actually add anything to the movie. Please don't waste your time.

Please take the camera away from whoever got the chance to play with it and bury it deep, then take the film and burn it. This ill-conceived post-apocalyptic horror (and I write this with a feeling not unlike profound terminal toothache that someone may equate this with any decent film of these genres) has but one thing going for it - the chance to walk away and watch no longer. In a masochistic moment I managed to stay the course - in the belief that either a gut-wrenching funny or scary moment would occur. There are no scary, suspenseful scenes. This film gets one star for a few comedy horror moments but all the walking about in the woods in between isn't worth the wait.I would have preferred the zombies to win - at least they were trying to make it interesting.The musical score isn't to my taste but was the best of a really bad film.