Not only does this movies editing and acting horrible but as well as the choice of actors. Everything was rushed. Like two chicks get pregnant in a 30 minute span and they both die. The most well rounded zombie killers DIE from one zombie! They add random Asian which both die and added some old bitch that clearly looked like she was lost from a movie about rest homes. This movie tried so hard yet failed to understand how to execute it. Did I mention it's 90 minutes?? Not only did they try to stretch a 5 minute youtube style video into 2 hours but added so much garage and poorly trained actors that it was embarrassing to watch it. Honestly I would give it a 0 out of 10 but you can't do that. The make-up effect for the zombies was hilarious and the audio and video didn't even match up. This movie sucked so bad that I got nightmares from the acting, not the zombies. Truly Sharknado wasn't even as horrible as whatever THIS is. Funny to see them all die though.

From the very beginning of this movie I found myself wondering about the title of all things! "Rise Of The Zombies." It suggests that the movie is going to be about the beginnings of a zombie plague - how it happened, where it came from. But no. Actually, from the very opening scenes of the movie it seems pretty clear that the zombies have already risen! They're pretty much in control and there don't seem to be all that many survivors. Over the course of the hour and a half, we do find out that it probably started with an infected water system, and that it's pretty recent. One of the characters is pregnant, and she says she got pregnant at a party two months before. So, since people probably haven't been partying much since the zombie plague started, this whole thing must have happened in less than two months. But that's not the focus of the movie. Not at all. Those are just snippets of information that come out. So, yes, strange choice for a title.With this being set in San Francisco (although the plague seems to be worldwide, or one assumes that there would be rescue missions) what survivors there are have holed themselves up on Alcatraz Island. So that's a bit of a twist: a high security prison becoming a sanctuary. Unfortunately, it seems that even Alcatraz isn't a very secure sanctuary. Every now and then zombies come wading ashore and have to be killed. Now, I've never looked it up, but I assume that the water depth between San Francisco and Alcatraz is more than 6 feet (ie, more than the height of your average human being - or zombie - or it wouldn't have been much of a prison) which suggests that since the zombies don't appear to be the type to enjoy boating they must be able to walk a fair distance under water. OK. Why not. It makes it harder to find a real place of refuge, thus increasing the hopelessness that's always at the centre of a zombie movie.Aside from that little twist, though, there's not a lot of originality to this. The zombies are zombies. They're the undead, re-animated corpses controlled by a virus of some sort with a taste for the flesh and blood of living humans. Got it. Seen it many times.The cast features a collection of fairly well known faces, although mega-stars they're not. People like Mariel Hemingway, LeVar Burton, French Stewart. They're all in this. A couple of others. Faces and names you know, in other words. Unfortunately, though many of the faces are familiar, the performances weren't great. Hemingway was probably the most front and centre as a scientist who takes a group from Alcatraz back into the city to try to find the lab where an antidote to the virus was being worked on. She didn't really grab me. Burton was given the most opportunity for a character the viewer could sympathize with. He stays behind on Alcatraz while Hemingway's group goes into the city and others go off in search of rescue, and he keeps two living zombies (or is that a contradiction?) locked up to experiment on as he looks for a cure. The attempted heart-wrenching is that one of the zombies he has locked up is his own daughter. Still, I would have to say that my reaction to most of the cast is that they were less than convincing in their roles; unenthused about playing them perhaps? So, really, what you have here is a mediocre movie that adds nothing original to the zombie genre, and rather flat performances from the cast. Not a winner, in other words. (3/10)

During a zombie apocalypse, a group of survivors hide on Alcatraz Island to escape from rising zombie hordes. When their refuge is overrun, and upon hearing that a scientist may have discovered a cure, they leave the island to seek him out.Check out this amazing cast: Ethan Suplee (who seems strangely adult for those of us used to him from "Mallrats"), Levar Burton, horror icon Danny Trejo, French Stewart... how did they afford this cast? The Screen Actors Guild fees must have been enormous...While much of this film is pretty awful, or at least nothing special, you have to love the incredible birthing scene. Sure, it is not very realistic, and for some reason the baby comes out clean and a few months old... but that is just how movie magic works!

What do you want from a zombie apocalypse movie? Social commentary? Rich symbolism? Literary dialog?Or, do you want wicked zombie gags, overacting, cheesy dialog and B-plus acting by B-minus actors glad to have the work?All my friends from paragraph two, welcome to "Rise of the Zombies." You will not be disappointed.A standard-grade zombie movie is the best you can hope for from The Asylum, whose previous living-dead efforts include the aptly named "Zombie Apocalypse" and better-than-it-deserved-to-be "I Am Omega."But the low-rent production house ups its game here, with some decent location shooting in San Francisco, some really gross zombies, more- than-decent acting turns by Jordi Kunte Kinte Reading Rainbow LaForge and the sane Hemingway sister, and a performance by Machete that's everything you expect and nothing more, because what you see is all he was paid to do.The Asylum seems to excel at zombie movies because they're cheap and easy. What's nice is, despite that, they seem to be having fun making these pictures and that fun is evident on screen. "Abraham Lincoln Versus Zombies" was a freakin' hoot. And the aforementioned "I Am Omega" was a more enjoyable adaptation of the Matheson novella than Will Smith's blockbuster ever could be.That's not so in some of The Asylum's other efforts, like its haunted house or found-footage movies, for example, which are boring and sullen. So, let's encourage the good stuff in the hopes it'll make more of it.This one's definitely worth the buck-and-a-quarter at Redbox.