I can't remember which of the [REC] series I've seen before. I'm pretty sure I haven't seen the original because it's either never on Netflix or costs way too much on DVD because it's a foreign film. That's kind of a bummer though because it's supposed to be really good. [REC] 4: Apocalypse though, questionable at best.
It starts with a group of military guys sweeping building and planting explosives. They apparently are poorly trained as their sweeps don't show that there are fuck tons of zombies they missed which end up wrecking their lives. One ends up finding our main reporter girl and they escape only to wake up on a ship with a bunch of caged monkeys, a small crew, military, and scientists? I don't know what the hell happened. Neither do they, so I guess we're all in the same... you know what... never mind.
The rest of the film is outbreak city followed by one of those "this person must have the cure! Get them!" shit for a good half of the movie. This was actually pretty boring. Also, that outboard motor she's posing with in that poster... it's a weapon. Pretty much the dumbest weapon I've seen in a zombie movie because those things are heavy as fuck and don't have huge blades. A boat full of guys with a ton of guns, and you mother fuckers find a dumb ass motor.
I think this is one of those points where a franchise has just gone on too long. The fucking zombies Naruto run at them sometimes which instantly made me hate them. Then the subtitles were not always correct. I may not know much Spanish, but I know when someone says "you don't have the balls," as opposed to "I would like to see you try it."
This movie also started with some things I might have been reading into waaaaaayyyy too much. For example, the ship's name is the Zarathustra which I assume was in reference to the Neitzsche book. The radio/IT person was wearing a Nosferatu shirt and they're all on a boat with this "monster" plague. I'm probably just trying too hard to save this film by wanting it to be smarter than zombies on a ship in Spanish.
I give [REC] 4: Apocalypse 2 "judges you in Spanish" memes out of 5:
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