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London: The not too distant future. N-Gen Industries, a leading pharmaceutical company, is trying to placate a media uproar. Its new legal performance enhancer, RAK-295, has met with spectacular failure during testing, causing severe physical and allergic reactions in all 30,000 of its test subjects baring one.... Angela Mills (MyAnna Buring). Our Future Has One Hope ... and with Angela being the only person not to report any type of reaction, N-Gen CEO Peter White (Colin Salmon) enlists Head of Security Cole (Craig Fairbrass), a hardened ex-mercenary, to find her and bring her in for examination. Angela is joined by troubled on-off boyfriend Joe (Danny Dyer) and a small group of friends as they try to seek refuge from the infected and Cole and the N-Gen Corporation.
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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
There's a decent idea buried somewhere in this film and there are fair performances from the cast. However, there's a big problem which lies squarely with the script. Taking ideas and plot lines from various other films does not result in a good movie. Nor does adding actors from other zombie/apocalypse films for no reason.
In short, a dodgy pharmaceutical company has tested 30,000 people with an experimental drug. Several weeks later, all bar one (Myanna Buring playing pretty much the same role she had in Neil Marshall's Doomsday) are infected with a zombie like disease which turns them into the infected from 28 Days/Weeks Later and gives them the ability to free run like that guy in Casino Royale. Remember that? That was good, wasn't it? I wish they'd make another Bond film. Daniel Craig is a great Bond...Anyway, where was I? Oh yes. Said dodgy company who aren't the Umbrella Corporation from Resident Evil (not at all) send hardman Craig Fairbrass (not related to the two guys from Right Said Fred) after Myanna to find out why she's not infected and if she possesses a cure. Meanwhile, Myanna's boyfriend Danny Dyer, his mate (Sol from Doomsday, the camper from the opening scene from Dog Soldiers and one of the Crawlers from The Descent - spotting a pattern?) and a couple of pointless characters are hiding in a garage/workshop probably belonging to the director's brother. Once everyone meets up, it's time to get to da choppa without being eaten.
Like I said, there's a decent idea in here, but it's lost in a mish mash of scenes from several other films and it's definitely not helped by the use of actors from other, better films. Seeing Sean Pertwee in this for all of five minutes just reminded me how great Dog Soldiers and Doomsday were.
Give Devil's Playground a watch if you don't have anything else available and you keep your expectations extremely low. Then watch Doomsday and 28 Days Later to see how it should be done.
In short, a dodgy pharmaceutical company has tested 30,000 people with an experimental drug. Several weeks later, all bar one (Myanna Buring playing pretty much the same role she had in Neil Marshall's Doomsday) are infected with a zombie like disease which turns them into the infected from 28 Days/Weeks Later and gives them the ability to free run like that guy in Casino Royale. Remember that? That was good, wasn't it? I wish they'd make another Bond film. Daniel Craig is a great Bond...Anyway, where was I? Oh yes. Said dodgy company who aren't the Umbrella Corporation from Resident Evil (not at all) send hardman Craig Fairbrass (not related to the two guys from Right Said Fred) after Myanna to find out why she's not infected and if she possesses a cure. Meanwhile, Myanna's boyfriend Danny Dyer, his mate (Sol from Doomsday, the camper from the opening scene from Dog Soldiers and one of the Crawlers from The Descent - spotting a pattern?) and a couple of pointless characters are hiding in a garage/workshop probably belonging to the director's brother. Once everyone meets up, it's time to get to da choppa without being eaten.
Like I said, there's a decent idea in here, but it's lost in a mish mash of scenes from several other films and it's definitely not helped by the use of actors from other, better films. Seeing Sean Pertwee in this for all of five minutes just reminded me how great Dog Soldiers and Doomsday were.
Give Devil's Playground a watch if you don't have anything else available and you keep your expectations extremely low. Then watch Doomsday and 28 Days Later to see how it should be done.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Blu-ray
A pharmaceutical company called N-Gen tests a new drug on 30,000 poor mugs which goes a tad wrong, turning them all into zombies of some kind. All except one lucky lady (she should do the lottery this week) who shows no sign of turning into a labour mp,oops sorry i mean zombie. Anyway N-Gen think she may be immune so send their top man (Fairbrass) to track her down and bring her back to see if she holds the key to a cure. Meanwhile the zombies do what they do best and start infecting everyone by biting them which turns their victims into zombies too. Somewhere during all this she meets her ex boyfriend (Dyer) who happens to be a copper who is currently suspended for a reason which is of no real consequence but probably to show he has depth. They then meet up with a few others who decide that getting to a helicopter is the best solution of getting out of town. So do they escape? Does the girl save the day? Or is it all you can eat at the local kebab house?
The films plot is sort of a mash up of 28 days later, Outbreak, Resident Evil and any zombie film to be honest. there can't be many ways of turning people into zombies so fresh plot ideas are in short supply with zombie films.
This doesn't make it a bad film, far from it. The acting is of a standard you would expect with our so called b list actors, ok so Sean Pertwee is a bit above that but does not have enough screen time in the film to warrant too much of a mention.
You do get a few jumps and frights and the gore level is pretty good, the characters are generally the usual bunch of misfits with their petty squabbles getting in the way of the real problems they face, i think only Fairbrass character comes away with a slight realism, a security guard with an obvious ex military past constantly getting fed up with the group of civvies.
Its worth watching just for the fact if you like zombie type films then you will get something out of it even if it won't knock Dawn of the Dead off its perch in your collection.
A worthy 3 stars and a little bit more.
The films plot is sort of a mash up of 28 days later, Outbreak, Resident Evil and any zombie film to be honest. there can't be many ways of turning people into zombies so fresh plot ideas are in short supply with zombie films.
This doesn't make it a bad film, far from it. The acting is of a standard you would expect with our so called b list actors, ok so Sean Pertwee is a bit above that but does not have enough screen time in the film to warrant too much of a mention.
You do get a few jumps and frights and the gore level is pretty good, the characters are generally the usual bunch of misfits with their petty squabbles getting in the way of the real problems they face, i think only Fairbrass character comes away with a slight realism, a security guard with an obvious ex military past constantly getting fed up with the group of civvies.
Its worth watching just for the fact if you like zombie type films then you will get something out of it even if it won't knock Dawn of the Dead off its perch in your collection.
A worthy 3 stars and a little bit more.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Somewhere, someone said something like, "Hey, everyone loves zombies, right? And the Resident Evil films were successful. What about if we mix it with 28 Days/Weeks Later? We can't lose!"
Whoever said that lost.
The Devil's Playground doesn't so much as play homage to other (zombie/infection) movies as simply rips them off. It's mainly Resident Evil meets 28 Days/Weeks Later, but watch out for plot elements ripped right out of I Am Legend and various scenes re-worked from Dawn of the Dead (2004) and Night of the Living Dead.
London is overrun with zombies who don't just run like the modern crop seem to do these days, but also pirouette, somersault, bounce off walls and hang upside down from vans to peer in the sliding door (as opposed to simply looking inside said open sliding door). They've come a long way from Romero's `shufflers' - seriously, these guys are more graceful in the air than a ballerina. Plus, instead of just killing and eating people, they go as far as to `strike a pose' every time they enter a room, just for added menace (and to give any major characters a fair chance at running/clobbering them).
Talking of main characters - it's like a C-list of British action heroes, none of which have obviously ever seen a zombie movie, as it takes most of the film to figure out the ol' `destroy the brain' way of killing them. Danny Dyer and Craig Fairbrass fight it out for `most cockney hero' title. The leading lady spends most of her time looking frail and meek (certainly no Milla Jovovich here!). The rest of the cast just try too hard. They're a mixture of stereotypes who, if cast as `b*tchy' is UBER b*tchy, if cast as `lovable' is UBER lovable and so on. Poor Jamie Murray - she's worth so much more.
At the end of the day The Devil's Playground is quite nicely shot, but ultimately a student movie (albeit one of the better ones) with plenty of badly computer-generated smoke rising up from burning London.
If you like zombie movies, you will probably dislike this. If you already dislike the genre, this one won't win you round. There's nothing new here, just a badly-acted copy of a mish-mash of better works. Advice: stick on a Romero film, 28 Days Later, or, if you fancy something more `popcorn' a Resident Evil flick.
Oh, and note to film-makers - deserted streets of London are no longer creepy seeing as 28 Days Later did it almost ten years ago.
Whoever said that lost.
The Devil's Playground doesn't so much as play homage to other (zombie/infection) movies as simply rips them off. It's mainly Resident Evil meets 28 Days/Weeks Later, but watch out for plot elements ripped right out of I Am Legend and various scenes re-worked from Dawn of the Dead (2004) and Night of the Living Dead.
London is overrun with zombies who don't just run like the modern crop seem to do these days, but also pirouette, somersault, bounce off walls and hang upside down from vans to peer in the sliding door (as opposed to simply looking inside said open sliding door). They've come a long way from Romero's `shufflers' - seriously, these guys are more graceful in the air than a ballerina. Plus, instead of just killing and eating people, they go as far as to `strike a pose' every time they enter a room, just for added menace (and to give any major characters a fair chance at running/clobbering them).
Talking of main characters - it's like a C-list of British action heroes, none of which have obviously ever seen a zombie movie, as it takes most of the film to figure out the ol' `destroy the brain' way of killing them. Danny Dyer and Craig Fairbrass fight it out for `most cockney hero' title. The leading lady spends most of her time looking frail and meek (certainly no Milla Jovovich here!). The rest of the cast just try too hard. They're a mixture of stereotypes who, if cast as `b*tchy' is UBER b*tchy, if cast as `lovable' is UBER lovable and so on. Poor Jamie Murray - she's worth so much more.
At the end of the day The Devil's Playground is quite nicely shot, but ultimately a student movie (albeit one of the better ones) with plenty of badly computer-generated smoke rising up from burning London.
If you like zombie movies, you will probably dislike this. If you already dislike the genre, this one won't win you round. There's nothing new here, just a badly-acted copy of a mish-mash of better works. Advice: stick on a Romero film, 28 Days Later, or, if you fancy something more `popcorn' a Resident Evil flick.
Oh, and note to film-makers - deserted streets of London are no longer creepy seeing as 28 Days Later did it almost ten years ago.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
"..TOP BRITISH HORROR.."
I Was expecting this to be a little more low budget before watching it, but was very surprised to see it was very well made indeed! Read more
Published 1 month ago by S. Drury
Why the harsh reviews
First off this film is not a high budget movie and please dont expect it to be on the same par as Dawn Of The Dead or any other good zombie movies . Read more
Published 4 months ago by ayerze
a cool,well thought out film.
its nice to see Danny Dyer in a film again,and its been quite a while since i have to be honest.another favourite of mine is Severance. Read more
Published 5 months ago by MARKYBOY
A decent zombie film
An excellent zombie movie! has some awesome shots of London and a great cast and plenty of hyper active zombies on a warpath! a good pick for anyone that likes fast zombies.
Published 8 months ago by S.B
Hard to desribe this film...
Well, it's not, as unbelievably bad sums it up rather well. Unfortunately it isn't very descriptive. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Nicholas Tindall
Absolutely Dyer (see what I did there?)
I saw this at the annual Zombie Film Festival in Leicester and nearly didn't watch it because it starred faux hardman Danny Dyer. Read more
Published 17 months ago by G Rees
Really enjoyed it!
First off, me being a Danny Dyer fan, I would have loved this movie no matter what! Of course it may have scenes similar to other zombie movies but how different can a zombie movie... Read more
Published 18 months ago by Summer
28 days later clone
There is really nothing wrong with this movie except that its all been done before. The only thing original for me was the use of free runners as the infected, their behaviour was... Read more
Published 19 months ago by PJ Rankine
Outbreak
Cole(Craig Fairbrass), Head of Security for the secretive N-Gen Industries, a company who have been testing a new performance enhancing drug RAK-295 on 30,000 volunteer subjects,... Read more
Published 19 months ago by Mr. Jonathon T. Beckett
A Cracking Zombie Movie.
I loved this movie. It borrows from many different movies,I Am Legend, 28 Days & 28 Weeks Later and The Dawn Of The Dead Movies and Shaun Of The Dead and Zombieland. Read more
Published 19 months ago by Raymie1968
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