It goes a bit bollock shaped from the off as their plane gets shot to wank and half of them die before they've even managed to test their parachutes are working.
When the surviving members make it to the village that houses the comms centre, things get worse as the nazis in charge seem to have a secondary agenda and it turns out the old church being used as the base of their operations are being used for, well, an entirely different type of 'operations'.
So far, so seen it a hundred times. There's been no shortage of utterly bollocks films about nazis using strange medicines to raise the dead and create zombie super soldiers. This film, though, actually has a decent script, good acting and an obviously generous budget. The end result is like a mashup of Saving Private Ryan and Re-Animator.
Don't get me wrong, it's no masterpiece, but, like Dead Snow, it's one of those rare films in this surprisingly busy sub-genre that not only exceed expectations but are enjoyable in their own right.
It could do with being 15 minutes shorter and it also reminded me a little of The Descent in the sense of as much as I enjoyed it, part of me wonders if it would've been a better and more scary* film if the monsters hadn't turned up.
The Descent is flippin' superb either way though.
7.45/10
*Let's be honest, it wouldn't have actually been scary, very, very few films are, but you get what I mean.
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