Contentar Best movie of this year hands down!

RipDelight This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Jerrie It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

Tina Willis Had to review this film since the rating is so much lower then it deserves to be.The quality of this independent lower budget movie is absolutely OUTSTANDING. The cinematography, editing, sound, score, to the acting and special effects are close to ga-zillion dollar budgeted Hollywood films.It may be considered slow paced by some,(this movie is more along the lines of the film "The Road") It was perfect for me. I good human story in the setting of apocalyptic survival. With characters I cared about mixed in with some really good zombie monster bashing, without gratuitous gore. The perfect balance.

MrGKB ...around halfway through, "Chrysalis" should have remained the extended short it was likely conceived as when its first desolate locations were discovered by its creators. Undoubtedly inspired by AMC's "The Walking Dead" (no small surprise given director John Klein's association with Ross "Aaron" Marquand), this regrettably retitled-for- video-release apocalyptic tale just doesn't offer up enough legitimate conflict to fill out its bloated running time. DP/writer Ben Kurstin extracts maximum atmosphere from the fortuitous ruins, and the cast tackles his sparse script as gamely as one might ask of a lo-fi production, but the truth is that the whole thing could've been tightened right in half with no loss of information and a probable increase in impact. I think there's a lot of talent wrapped up in "Chrysalis" that has yet to flower, but I can only recommend it to genre completists and followers of low budget indies.

ERK I was more than surprised by the quality of this movie, especially when I found out the previous title was "Battle Apocalypse." I'm glad they changed it to Chrysalis, because a serious drama benefits from a serious (and not overdone) metaphor. The locations and cinematography are excellent, as are the dialog and acting. I don't have any real complaints - this isn't an action or horror film, though action and horror both play a part. This is a very human film, driven around the nuances of character and relationship, and to boot is much more hopeful than most of the post- apocalyptic genre. I'm very glad I saw this movie, and hope the filmmakers make many more.Much more solid and assured than most indie films, this might be the best one I've seen at any film festival.

danielpope75 I really wanted this movie to redeem itself but it became increasingly worst as it went on. Here are the weak points. The plot is poor and predictable, the acting is substandard and the score is just god awful. It is probably the only one zombie movie where I found myself cheering for the zombies. I kept asking myself "how the hell did you lot survive this long?" Eventually, I realised that I was the biggest loser in all this as I had lost 100 minutes of my life that I could never regain. It may have been a very good 6th form project, but it really should never hit the big screen. My tip is to only watch this movie when you are high, at least then you can blame it on the weed.