NekoHomey Purely Joyful Movie!

Brightlyme i know i wasted 90 mins of my life.

Konterr Brilliant and touching

Freaktana A Major Disappointment

ctomvelu1 If you're expecting a zombie movie based on the title, forget it. This baby is about a swarm of highly intelligent killer flies (yes, flies) that attack a group of folks who disturb their island, which contains a Potter's field plus a crumbling old school that a developer (Malcolm MacDowell) hopes to turn into a juvenile detention farm, Think of the flies as locusts or bees, and the picture isn't nearly as bad. When one of these flies bites someone, that person quickly dies, decomposes, and produces maggots that quickly turn into more killer flies. Unfortunately, all that really happens is one character after another is knocked off, and precious little else occurs. New Yorican hottie Talisa Soto plays a cop, and while she is much of an actress, she is one heck of a looker. MacDowell really steals the show as the bombastic, demented developer. For those who saw and enjoyed 16 BLOCKS, the star of that picture, Mos Def, is along for the ride here. The ending simply peters out. At best, this is a time killer.

Paul Andrews Island of the Dead is set on 'Hart Island' which is situated just of the coast of New York where unclaimed & unidentified bodies are buried, ex cop Melissa O'Keefe (Talisa Soto) who now works missing persons is trying to track someone down & reckon they might be buried on Hart Island so she decides to go over there. However she's picked a busy day for it as unscrupulous property developer Rupert King (Malcolm McDowell) plans to redevelop the island & build lots of apartments. He sends his man Rodger (Paul Hopkins) to take soil samples but he ends up being attacked by flies/bees/wasps or what ever they are & he ends up dead. The flies/bees/wasps then attack everyone else, wow, you can almost feel the excitement...Written & directed by Tim Southam I thought Island of the Dead was total complete & utter crap, to be blunt. The script is terrible, for a start there isn't one single reasonable explanation for these killer files/bees/wasps, not one. Thy are just there & that's it, they also seem to be intelligent a they can actually distinguish between people although it begs the question if all they wanted to do was kill the bad guy & they let the heroes go free at the end why did they kill some of the good guys to start with? Anyway, one things for sure they are more intelligent than the script, a lot more intelligent. Then there's the highly annoying character's, Soto's missing person detective just sort of walks around a bit & has a disinterested look on her face while there's plenty of clichés here as well like the ex-cons, the greedy businessman who gets his comeuppance & the good hearted cop, please give me a break. There is one laughable scene when someone wants to give his dead friend a burial even though there's a swarm of killer flies/bees/wasps buzzing around outside & he actually intends to dig the hole & put the body in it as well! When all said & done though what kills this film stone dead is the fact that it provides zero entertainment, I cannot think of one single positive aspect to this film, it's incredibly slow & boring, it's predictable & it even tries to have a moral message about the homeless & missing people which just feels so heavy handed & out of place in such a rotten film. I hate everything about this film, it's as simple & straight forward as that.Director Southam does nothing to make the film watchable, there's some highly annoying rap music & lots of irritating camera technique's which just look terrible & annoy more than impress. I'm not sure whether the things which buzz, fly & sting are flies/bees or wasps as they are never shown in close-up, all we get is a big black cloud when they attack & lots of buzzing noises. There are lots of maggots but not much in the way of gore.Technically Island of the Dead is below average, the effects don't even stretch to showing the killer flies/bees/wasps, the entire thing looks like it was set in an overcast field & as such is extremely drab & dull to look at. The acting was awful & I cannot believe an actor such as Malcolm McDowell needs money badly enough to appear in a piece of crap such as this, was it really worth it Malcolm? Well, was it?Island of the Dead is crap, there's nothing else to say really. I can't imagine anyone getting anything like entertainment out of this total waste of time, definitely one to avoid.

Samuel Johansson This movie starts out pretty nice with a pretty "ok" plot...Melissa is working at the missing persons department of the New York PD and she's investigating a case of a missing child, who is also an orphan. There is a deserted island where they put all the nameless people who've died and she decides to go out there to see if the child is buried there. Another person, wealthy billionaire Rupert King, has decided to turn the island into a new hope (Hope City) for the homeless and poor. He and his men go out to the island to start the building of the new city, and he obviously as some evil plans in his back pocket.And this is where the movie turns sour...The plot disappears completely. Flies starts to come out of the corpses. If you get bitten, you die almost instantly. And then more flies (and maggots, why?) starts to crawl out of your decaying body to attack your friends.. Fade to black. -END PICTURE- *YUCK* :-P

preppy-3 A bunch of people--including evil industrialist Malcolm McDowell, policewoman Talisa Soto and prisoner Bruce Ramsay--are on Hart Island--an actual island off the coast of NYC where unidentified dead people are buried. While there they desecrate one of the graves. You would expect by the title that the dead would come to life and attack. Wrong! They instead are attacked by...flies. If the flies bite you, you die and almost immediately begin decomposing.This sounded pretty promising--not in a good way but a bad camp movie sort of way. Unfortunately this is just bad. The soundtrack has annoying rap songs which don't even fit the movie; the dialogue and characters are all clichés that you've seen and heard before; the fly POV shots are hysterical; in one shot it's daytime--a minute later it's pitch black night (shades of Ed Wood Jr.!); lousy makeup and boring CGI effects and a stubborn refusal to be scary even once! I was so bored I dozed off for about 10 minutes (I didn't miss anything). It really boggles the mind that anyone would think this would ever work.Some good performances make this bearable--Soto is beautiful but wooden however Ramsay is surprisingly good and McDowell is just great--he's obviously enjoying himself and his enjoyment rubs off (a little). Still this is a stupid, dumb, boring and completely illogical horror film. Right down there with "House of the Dead". A must miss.