La hora fría (2006)
3/10
Dystopia + (survival * zombies) - scifi = boring disappointment
25 September 2016
This is a survival zombie picture, a quite slow one, with some action only later on. Of course those who liked this picture will probably say to that, that it is a character driven movie, with emphasis on both known and unknown threats, simply showing day to day survival after a big war somewhere in the future. But if it is suppose not to be an action flick, then why did they put in it that one typical zombie extermination scene? Also: why do they talk so much about means of survival and take care in maintaining order in the group to the degree of keeping reports from scavenger expeditions, and yet they have such holes in their defenses that it just beyond logical comprehension? And how did that lonely survivor was able not only to live outside that group for so long, but also at the same time in such vicinity to them, while staying under their radar? Things like that just show in clear sight, how (unfortunately) bad this movie really is

And the big plot twist at the end that reveals "the truth", could be the attempt of trying to save the movie by giving also a sense to the whole situation (and specially that other threat that is not named in this short review). But that twist does exactly the opposite, adding more faulty ideas. Because in the end that other (aside zombies) physical threat just does not make any sense. Was that suppose to be a thriller or horror? Sci-fi or fantasy? Or just a waste of film resources and the time of viewers?

This is surely not a science fiction movie. Unfortunately that is the problem with IMDb genres system: it does not have a "dystopia" or "apocalyptic" category, and as such often shows as a s-f something that has very little or nothing to do with that genre

This is a European low budget picture that makes the mistakes of a Hollywood big budget B-class movies. It slowly but inevitably degrades to a boring disappointment
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