5.8 | / 10 |
Users | 0.0 | |
Reviewer | 2.5 | |
Overall | 2.5 |
Dead Rising: Endgame drops us into the zombie-infested quarantined zone of East Mission City where investigative reporter Chase Carter must stop a secret government conspiracy.
Starring: Jesse Metcalfe, Keegan Connor Tracy, Jessica Harmon, Dennis Haysbert, Billy ZaneHorror | 100% |
Action | 3% |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 2.39:1
Original aspect ratio: 2.39:1
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
English, English SDH, French
Blu-ray Disc
Single disc (1 BD)
Slipcover in original pressing
Region A (locked)
Movie | 1.5 | |
Video | 4.0 | |
Audio | 3.5 | |
Extras | 1.5 | |
Overall | 2.5 |
Dead Rising: Endgame releases day-and-date alongside Dead Rising 4, the latest entry into the video game series on which it is based. It's also ironic, and a little funny, that it's under the Sony label that the movie releases, yet the game is being published by Microsoft Studios and released exclusively to Windows and Xbox One with no Sony PlayStation 4 release in sight. Regardless, the movie, which is a followup to 2015's Dead Rising: Watchtower (no Blu-ray was released), is less a companion piece to the games and more a standalone experience that's a slog of a movie and a shell of the fun factor the games have on tap. Beyond a few winks and nods and some weapons crafting that's been shoehorned into the otherwise dull and meaningless plot, it's a decidedly bad movie with no redeeming value either for fans of the game series or those approaching it with no preconceived notions and only in search of some mindless zombie hacking and slashing built around a recycled plot about government conspiracies and the journalist out to uncover the truth. Yawn.
Dead Rising: Endgame's 1080p transfer isn't all that exciting, but it's technically stable and gets the job done. The digital source photography leaves the movie appearing rather flat and a bit glossy, but it never really struggles to find enough detail to please. The movie's various industrial backdrops look nice, with enough worn and weathered complexity on walls, pipes, and other odds and ends keeping the image appearing sharp. Skin tones and clothing lines don't find the sort of eye-catching intimacy of the best presentations, but core, fundamental details aren't hard to come by. Colors are fine. The movie takes on a slightly pale, gray, desaturated look about it. It's a bit bleak, but red blood (practical and digital), clothes, and various accents enjoy enough vibrancy to satisfy. Black levels are adequately deep and flesh tones are fine under the movie's parameters. Source noise is mild and no other major eyesores are apparent.
Dead Rising: Endgame's DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 lossless soundtrack is, much like the video, no great shakes in terms of how it was engineered, but Sony's presentation handles what the movie has on offer nicely enough. Music is suitably wide and clear, supported by mild surround activity and a decent low end presence. Action, such as gunfire, thuds and pounds, squishy zombie gore, roaring helicopters, and other such genre staples present with enough oomph and depth to get the point across. Light atmospherics are uncommon but present well enough, and with a decent surround sensation. Dialogue is clear and well prioritized, mostly, anyway; a few exchanges suffer under the burden of heavier elements, like when a chopper takes off at film's end. Still, the track is fine all-around, even if it's not up to par of the best movies with the largest budgets.
Dead Rising: Endgame contains a few brief extras. Seven "temporary tattoos" are included.
It's not a surprise that Dead Rising: Endgame is a lame excuse for a movie and even fairly poor by video game-turned-movie standards. It plays about as one would expect of a low rent direct-to-video flick, replete with subpar production values, flat acting, bland direction, low end visual effects, and so on and so forth. Even quality actors like Dennis Haysbert and Billy Zane can't help it. Sony's Blu-ray is decent enough, delivering good video, fair lossless audio, and a few extras. Skip it.
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