Breakdown Lane

nice move go and watch it

That being. Make a film without funding. LOL. I mean what was this made for $5.95? Now I'm not one to rag on indie films, I love them, have a real passion and tolerance for low budget, Indie or both. This was a good idea, no fault there, the set up is also good. Lead actress is ok so no real super problem with her. But WOW are the SFX bad. Terrible CGI, very poor execution of the "Scary scenes". Some of the dialog was good, and delivered fine by the lead and the northstar customer service guy. Unfortunately, even with a liberal dose of suspension of expectation, I was unable to forgive or tolerate the horrid fight, kill or scare scenes. About the only time I found myself not eye rolling was the dialog in the SUV. Good idea but sometimes you just shouldn't release something that was beyond your ability to film many of the scenes with the what seems to be near zero special effects or even a special effects manager? If this film did have one, he should never work on a film again. A real shame, this could have been a decent film, just please secure some funding OR a talented SFX manager. Otherwise just keep it on hold until you can. Sorry, no addition to my collection with this one. I don't think I'd even waste the space if it was in the dollar bin.

Some people are trying to compare this to B or grindhouse movies but that is unfair to those movies. There is a difference between a movie with bad acting, script and direction but made with love and a movie that just throws all these elements together and hopes something sticks. The makers of this movie didn't even try to piece it together correctly. It is true to say that student movie productions in high school often show more care and concern than this movie. It is foolish to point out problems with a movie this bad but there are some things that just show how bad it is. PUSHING THE CAR. So as to not have shelter, the main character (Kirby) pushes her heavy SUV for who knows how many kilometres. This makes absolutely no sense. Whatever advantage of having the car as shelter would be lost by the exertion to keep the car moving. The city is 50 miles away. The average person walks about 3 miles / hour. Pushing the car was maybe a half mile per hour. But even if we accept this foolish behaviour then what is up with the paved/dirt road situation. We seem to rotate between scenes of the car on a dirt road, on dirt or on a paved road. Initially if it had been on the dirt road and then rolled to the pavement then that would be okay. But we see the car finally make it to a paved road, only minutes later to be back on dirt again. The worst is when she pushes her car past the police car on paved road (as a car passes in the opposite direction), she is then on a dirt road in Arizona with a paved road clearly visible behind her. She left the paved road to start traveling randomly over some dirt road. WTF? Of course that was the plot device so she could talk to Max which of course is not needed later in the movie when she talks to him on the phone. TIMELINE. Kirby is stranded on the road overnight. Then by the second night, she meets a band of humans who are killing zombies; eating their meat and acting like they are the third generation of survivors. We go from her not knowing this is happening to meeting people who have suddenly embraces a new way of life in 48 hours. It's like the SNL skit where they kill and eat someone in the trapped elevator even though the elevator is only stuck for 45 minutes. Continues when she meets the man who has "harnessed" the zombies and keeps his zombie wife tied up. EDITING. The above issues are often editing issues. It is just bad. We see the car with mud then without. We see dirt and blood and then it's gone. At one point we see a few cars at the edge of the screen drive by. Those are fun to see and often so subtle that it is fun to notice them. But the last scene with the dog has dozens of cars and a motorcycle drive by in a street only metres away. No attempt to block that out. In that same scene, we see Kirby in the jeep and those scenes are twilight but when she gets out with the dog, it is daytime. We are shown Kirby suiting up for a big fight with lots of small weapons and a rifle. Then suddenly we are on top of the building and there is whole load of various firearms. PLOT POINTS. Just lots of silly plot points. Kirby doesn't even know of the disease yet knows how to treat it with fire and hot metal. She shoots three criminals and beats up the fourth and while one guy takes off in the car; she doesn't pick up the various weapons lying around. The worst is that Karma seems to come bite Kirby literally. Kriby didn't call the ambulance for the sick father in the RV at the start of the movie so clearly he and his wife turned as did the daughter. So the daughter biting Kirby is payment but Kirby gets what she deserves. Until she cauterized her wound. This would have been a good plot point to keep in the movie. Kirby was not a good person so her surviving wasn't something we cared for.

If you understand what Grindhouse movies are about you will love this film First of all I want to get this out of the way: In any SHTF scenario I would choose Whitney Moore to suffer the consequences with, she is hot. This film showed when you love a a genre of movies based on stylistic conventions you can make a good film.