Not being a gore fan as I mentioned I thought that the gore
was rather tame and I thought that this was going to be perfectly fine until
the last quarter when it gets really gorey and I had to look away because I am
a bit of a wuss. It does seem a bit odd when they decided to just go mad with
the gore and I wonder why they didn’t do this sooner but I suppose that would
have undermined the comedy tone that they were so desperately going for. I
thought the idea that the zombies are stopped in their tracks because the vicar
is talking about Genesis was a clever idea and this led to another good idea
where the grandfather who has a hearing aid wasn’t affected because his hearing
aid was turned off so was continuing with his normal behaviour thus leading to
the demise of Clara.
The performances were as you would expect and with the film
being set at a wedding the loving couple decided that instead of getting out
they would find one another and both Leticia Dolera (Clara) and Diego Martin
(Koldo) do their best with what are quite frankly rather standard characters. I
did find the John Sponge character to be quite funny because it seemed to
stupid and yet funny so I didn’t mind that particular character. Quite why
Clara decided to go all from being a normal bride to being like Alice from the
Resident Evil films is a bit of a mystery. They even go to the trouble of
cutting her wedding dress so that it looks like Milla Jovovich in those films.
I’m not quite sure about REC 3 because I think that the
comedy part of the film was slightly disjointed and compared to the other REC
films I’m told that this is the weakest but I doubt that I will watch them. As
a standalone film, I’ve seen far worse and I thought that there were some good
performances and some good moments though having seen ‘The Walking Dead’ TV
series, it seems that this is a little behind the times in terms of
storytelling.
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