One of those movies where the entire army consists of 3 people, and multi million dollar science experiments are carried out by 1 doctor in a broom closet with a computer and 2 rats in cages.
The main story is that there's a virus outbreak of some sort in a remote Romanian town, and the US Government is sending in an elite group of mercenaries to blow up the town and contain things. The leader is Chief, he's been in jail for unspecified but apparently fucked up war crimes. He takes the mission so his record will be expunged and he can reunite with his daughter. The other 3 are elite soldiers, each being paid 2 million dollars each. There's a sniper from somewhere in Europe, a Scottish explosives expert, and lastly there's a ninja girl with pigtails who I swear to god is supposed to Asian but she's.....just not.
But wait, there's more. The soldiers, the US soldiers, are clearly not American. But wait, there's even more. The US President is played by Uwe Boll. Yes, you read that right. Lifted from IMDB, this is how he introduces himself, ""Hi! Ya, it is me. The president. Perhaps you are remembering me?" How can you not love that?
Along the way the mercenaries pick up some folks. There's the scientists earnest daughter and a couple on vacation from America. He's supposed to be a redneck, but imagine Billy Connelly doing foghorn leghorn and you pretty much get the gist. Her back story is that her brother killed her whole family. Why? I have no idea. There's even a dog involved. Again, why? Well probably for no other reason than Americans like dogs. The script is so deliciously bad.
I have no earthly idea why, but it works. It works astoundingly well. The dialog is so silly, but silly in a really fun way. The script is a ridiculous jumble of every American Bad ass cliche, but coherent enough to move the story swiftly along, and the action and gore are pretty damn good.
A good action movie with enough preposterousness to fill a ballpark, an American baseball ballpark. Apocalypse Z is an insane amount of fun, and an insane amount of insane.
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