Breach (2020)

Yes, I am including Breach (2020, also titled Anti-Life) in my zombie film reviews.  WHY?  Because, by today’s zombie film standards, this fits the model … well, not any worse than Billy Elliot.

Around the year 2242 A.D., Earth is facing an extinction level event.  300,000 survivors are selected to board a spaceship called the Ark (meanwhile 19 billion people are left behind for the big bye-bye).  This ship will take them to a planet to be newly colonized, which will be called New Earth.  Extinction level event, Ark, New Earth — yeah, I know, real inventive.  Shortly into the multi-month trip, a saboteur releases something on board to kill off the crew and 300K passengers in hypersleep.  This wormy slug thing kills people, infects them, and turns the dead in to reanimated (<– SEE, zombie film!) killer monsters.

I’ll stop there because I hate spoilers.

I picked up on Breach from folks talking about it online.  Folks seemed to either love it or hate it.  It’s sci-fi, Bruce Willis and Thomas Jane are the only recognizable stars — ehh — I had to watch it!  So far as I could tell this was a moderately budgeted film (that flopped in the theaters, but it was released just as COVID-19 restrictions were being loosened) that takes you by surprise.  It might not have been spectacular, but I thought it was pretty good.  As zombie films go, understanding that it might be a zombie film … I’d give it a Yellow Puss rating.

This is what a dentist sees following Hallowe’en weekend…

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