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Dead Rising: Watchtower

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Chase and Jordan cover the government's efforts to contain a virus that turns people into zombies. When a new drug fails to stop the spread of the disease, they team up with two survivors to escape the town before it is firebombed.

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David Hogan hoganreviews.co.uk 08/27/2020
3/5
A perfectly fine low-budget zombie movie. It pays homage to the game series it itself is a part of well, and even on its own merits it's a perfectly acceptable two hours. Go to Full Review
Mikel Zorrilla Espinof 05/08/2020
'Dead Rising: Watchtower' is a mediocre film that misuses all the interesting elements of the original video game saga. [Full Review in Spanish] Go to Full Review
Felix Vasquez Jr. Cinema Crazed 10/13/2015
I'm usually very rough on video game adaptations, but "Dead Rising" is a surprisingly very good take on the hit video games of the same name. Go to Full Review
Scott Weinberg Nerdist 06/25/2015
You've seen it all before, true, but at least it's not boring. Go to Full Review
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David B. Dec 8 RT won’t allow me to post the words I prefer to describe this “movie!” See more Mar 28 it's one of the rare video game adaptations that's a lot of fun and pretty deep even a decade later that's a rarity these days for a zombie flick believe it or not Jesse Metcalfe is awesome as a TV reporter covering how the public feels about the outbreak and the quarantine, Meghan Ory is really good as a loner ignoring the reality of the situation while also holding a dark secret of her own, and Keegan Connor Tracy gets a fair amount of screentime as Metcalfe's camera woman unlocking the conspiracy of the outbreak Virginia Madsen is just there for a little while lost in a state of mind the zombies are pretty cool given that they have some slight intelligence left on how to attack humans and aren't just stumbling around once in a while they'll cut to Rob Riggle being interviewed about how he feels about the governments' involvement on the city's lockdown as well as the military's: there's a lot of points of interest clashing about chips being implanted in citizens, violating their civil rights, invasion of privacy, and complete control over all of our civil liberties the intentions to stop another outbreak are noble but at the expense of watching everyone constantly as I said before, too this movie has a lot of depth next to the gore and carnage making you feel for these people more than you should See more Sam B 08/07/2024 It's a good movie, my only issue is that they tries to make it scarier than the games are. And that they went down the wrong avenues to do it. They border on horror when they should be skirting the edge of panic from the main characters actioning so much they run out of ammo or bite of more than they can chew and end up in a locked building surrounded by zombies with a bomb that will blow off the wall they're hiding behind in 5 minutes! Not saw 2 grim and gritty, snails pace horror and fear. See more Fleegle B 01/15/2024 Really enjoyable. I love Dead Rising See more The K 06/11/2023 You've seen it all before, but like the reporter said, it's all about the hot chick. Fun zombie flick to turn your brain off. See more steve d 12/06/2022 Not quite as good as the original because it loses some of the humor but still a lot of fun. See more Read all reviews
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Synopsis Chase and Jordan cover the government's efforts to contain a virus that turns people into zombies. When a new drug fails to stop the spread of the disease, they team up with two survivors to escape the town before it is firebombed.
Director
Zach Lipovsky
Producer
Tim Carter
Screenwriter
Tim Carter
Production Co
Di Bonaventura Pictures, Legendary Digital Media, Contradiction Films
Genre
Horror, Action
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Oct 8, 2016
Runtime
1h 58m