An average movie

First of all, I have to admit that I had never heard of this movie so I had no idea what to expect from it. I actually ended up watching the damned thing because, the last time I went to France, my sister gave me this movie on DVD. To be honest, it took me a while to figure out that it was shot with a single take, at least, the first 30 mins. Anyway, the end-result was not really amazing. I mean, thanks to the single take, you really get the feeling that you are actually witnessing a movie shoot, that’s for sure. However, even if it was probably supposed to be hilarious to see this movie crew struggling to shoot a very lame zombie movie while actually facing an actual zombie apocalypse, well, it was actually more pathetic than really entertaining, I’m afraid. However, it didn’t last long and, after around 30 mins, they went back in time and displayed how this project started. Well, this new development was not bad, at least, it was not as lame as this one-take zombie film was and it was nice to see these characters in their every day life but the damned thing still didn’t dazzle me. Then, you had the final act which turned out to be some kind of making-off of the one-take zombie flick displayed at the beginning and, then, it finally started to work for me. Indeed, the jokes started to land and the damned thing finally became really fun to watch. There was a major plot-hole though. Indeed, how did they manage to record the dialogues? Another thing that I enjoyed was how they displayed that making a movie, even a bad one, can be super stressful but also super fun. Eventually, I didn’t know this either, but my brother pointed out that it was actually a remake of a Japanese movie which, according to him, made this French version rather lame and really pointless. As far as I’m concerned, the meta concept had some potential and the final act was really entertaining but I didn’t care much about anything else though. Anyway, to conclude, in spite of its flaws, it was still a decent watch though and I think it is worth a look, especially if you like the genre.