ChicDragon It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

Melanie Bouvet The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

Clarissa Mora The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Brennan Camacho Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

Leofwine_draca Some guys out filming in the woods with a camera and added zombies…no, it's not the latest in a long line of BLAIR WITCH derivatives, but instead another low-budget Japanese slice of mayhem that follows in the same undead vein as WILD ZERO and JUNK. VERSUS takes the flesh-eating dead from the Romero movies and transplants them slap-bang into the middle of a tale involving yakuza vendettas, escaped convicts and an age-old sorcerer with plans for immortality. If it sounds overbaked and half-crazy, that's because it is.I really like these low-budget Japanese movies as they have a tendency to overcome their budgetary constraints, making up for a lack of cash with an influx of creative energy. The last one I watched was a glorious Tarantino rip-off called SCORE. VERSUS follows the same formula, dishing up some familiar ingredients and giving them extra jolts of vitality which brings a storyline you might have seen before back to outrageous (un)life.The characters are crazed, larger than life creations and the actors go way above and beyond the call of duty in their roles, but somehow the over-the-top nature of the performances work. Ryuhei Kitamura keeps his cameras moving all over the place, creating novel shot after novel shot, and the (many) action sequences are elaborately staged and completely exhilarating. It's a real shame when you watch a movie with a budget hundreds of times larger than the one here making crucial mistakes, like dodgy shaky-cam scenes or fights that are just plain dull. VERSUS may be silly, cheesy and rough around the edges…but it's never dull!

Derek Carpet Those crazy Chinese, they sure know how to make crazy films. I had a friend once who went to China- he said they didn't have cars but used dragons to drive about instead. Crazy! Especially as dragons are extinct. Versus isn't really a real film, it's really based on an assortment of fight em ups for the computer. Games such as Mortil Come Back World, Road Fighter 2: Championship Edition, and Streets Of Age. The crazy twist comes via the fact that we have not only humans fighting each other, but other creatures too- con men, vampires, weredogs, werecats, zomboids, Bagginses, people of the Aisle Of Man, Santa etc. The basic plot sees a Chinese mafia man re-stealing his girlfriend from a rival mafia man who had re-re-stolen her from the man who his re-stealing her from him. The baddie sends his most trusted warriors after the goodies in a progression of difficulty, starting with a brown belt unarmed amateur, working up through expert bearded swordsmen, giants, and Miyagi, all the way to entire platoons of tanks armed with nukes. Our hero is a decent fighter, but he can only take so much and is ripped to ribbons. Luckily though he is killed in an ancient Indian burial ground on a full moon and comes back as a zomboid. He then has to fight his way out of the Underworld against Medusa, Hitler, and Samuel Peyps only to try to re-re-re-rescue his girlfriend (who has been cheating on him with an Eskimo). Not a lot of the film made sense, especially the parts that weren't in English, and most of the effects and acting left much to be desired. I suppose I can't complain given that the film was made for 10 Yen, but when you see that Parannoying Actively was only made for 80 dollars there really is not excuse.Best Scene: When one of the bad guys is being kicked into the air you can see the string and pulley system being operated by a man in the trees in the background. If you freeze frame that part and zoom in you can see that it is none other than 1980s cast off Rick Moranis.

oneguyrambling Remember when you were at school and the teacher reminded you that you had an assignment or project due the next day, and that you had been aware of it for three months. And you hadn't even started yet...So rather than take the F you scrawled together some crap over night with some hastily arranged details and rambling barely coherent information that only partially touched upon what was required. Now imagine you sheepishly handed it in. And got an A.That my friends is Versus. I have seen this reviewed glowingly yet for the life of me cannot see why. It has received enough plaudits that one day I went out and bought it because I couldn't find it in any video shop, and boy do I regret that $15 now.Loosely put Versus is about a Japanese Forest that has the power of resurrection due to it being one of the gates to something or other, and every few hundred years a battle is fought between Japanese guys over who will rule the next while. That's at least what I jotted down before I gave up. The plot merely exists to have a bunch of sword fights, zombies and various costumes on screen in what amounts to little more than a student film.Depending on who they are attacking the zombies are either superhuman or consist of exploding jelly, they either stand there waiting to be shot or flip all over the place out of harm's way. Key characters fight, die, come back to fight and die again. Simply more bodies, more fodder for the rest. After the first 10 minutes it's all the same, and let me tell you the first 10 minutes are bewildering and lousy.There's lots of blood, lots of bullets and loads of bad acting. But this is the one point where Versus is a cut above. There is one actor in this film who simply must be seen to fully understand the level of his crapulence. There is not one moment where he is not at 100% ham, either poking his tongue out, jumping around like a demented animal or eye-bulging a reaction to the most mild dialogue.I can think of not one other thing that elevates this film to something worthy of being spoken about, or poor enough to raise a chuckle.I watched this. It sucks. Let's move on.Final Rating - 4 / 10. Two hours of Banana Splits production values and improv-night dialogue, all there so that some Japanese guys can have sword fights and shoot fake zombies while playing dress-ups.

gmleafs I have seen a lot of martial arts movies and I am willing to put up with a certain lack of dialogue, bad acting, and poor plot but this movie is ridiculous.When I read that this movie has zombies, hand-to-hand combat, sword fighting and guns I thought to myself how could you screw up a movie like that. Well Versus does just that.The fighting is bad. The scenes are very choppy and it looks more like an American action fighting sequence then what I've come to expect from an Asian fighting sequence. Not only that, but the fight sequences had poor sound and visual effects. I get that this movie is suppose to be like an anime, but even then this would be a poor anime film. The shooting scenes are just as bad. It looked like the characters have never fired a gun in their life.The acting is just as bad. Again, since this is an action fighting movie I don't expect great acting but wow this was bad. To be fair, the lead character was okay, but everyone else looked as dangerous as Napoleon Dynamite. It is not believable to have 120 lbs nerds pretend to look badass. The dialogue was by far the worst. I watched the subtitled version and it seemed like the dialogue was written at a grade 1 level and was delivered at a level lower.I'm not even sure how to comment on the plot. It's easy to follow, but is just horrible. I think they were going for a Highlander movie plot, but if Highlander Endgame gets a 4.4/10 then this movie should be below that. By the end of the movie you really don't care what happens, which favours the ending because it barley makes sense; but by that point in the movie you are so tired of watching it you find yourself saying "sure I guess that makes sense, just please end now." Overall, I would not watch this movie again. In fact, I regret watching it in its entirety once. I don't know why it is rated so high, but this is by far the most overrated movie I have ever seen to date. I have seen independent films with a cast of nobody's and very low budgets produce decent movies so there so that is no excuse for this movie at all.