okay, I am only given this a four because I also watched "Undead or Alive", a truly repulsive "zombie comedy" starring the unfunny Chris Kataan. So this little Asylum stink bomb actually took on a new luster after watching that abomination.

If you've seen the Omega Man or Last Man on Earth, you'll understand the plot. The majority of the human race has been wiped out by a plague that turns people into flesh-eating zombies. A single survivor lives in a fortress home and fights off nightly attacks by Zombies. During the day, he is planting bombs with the intent of blowing up an entire city. (It is never clear why he wants to do this, other than killing off all the Zombies.)

He gets a call from a woman trapped in the city. Yes, humanity has fallen, but the internet still works. She is the only person immune to the plague, and maybe they can make a vaccine from her blood. He meets up with two survivalist types who help him rescue her, but they intend to kill the girl so that a world where survivalists aren't considered nuts will continue.

Well, anyway, after losing the survivalists, the Hero finds the girl, and they find a car in an underground parking garage where surprisingly, the lights are still on. Yes, humanity has fallen, but the lights are still on. After a running battle with zombies who spend way too much time doing the sneak past the camera maneuver, they meet up with the surviving survivalist, who shoots the hero in all his limbs and leaves him to die.

A final battle ensues where he rescues the girl from imminent rape, and the hero and the girl ride off into the sunset, watching the city blow up in a cheap special effects sequence.

Okay, it isn't good, but you have to admire works like this, where a lot of beginning filmmakers can show their stuff. It is a lot better than garbage like Undead or Alive, where people who should know better make bad movies.

I AM OMEGA is yet another knock-off movie from The Asylum, this time copying I AM LEGEND by being another version of the classic Richard Matheson novel. I found this movie a little more in-depth and well-realised than most other Asylum flicks, although it's still tawdry and embarrassing at times. The setting is fairly okay and there's a solid actor for once in the lead role; none other than martial artist Mark Dacascos, who has been doing his thing since the early 1990s. At least he's trying hard here. The film has plenty of action and perilous moments, but at times it becomes very annoying, particularly with long drawn-out scenes of computer screens beeping which made me want to tear my hair out.

Richard survives during a biological agent zombie apocalypse. He has a very loud alarm set up should anyone enter his perimeter. Apparently he hasn't seen the zombie films where loud noises attract zombies. He opts to rescue a girl stuck in the inner city with two unsavory characters.

This is an Asylum film available on a 10 pack. Not worth watching outside of the context.

Guide: No swearing, sex, or nudity. Near rape.

Note to self: A convertible is not the idea car during a zombie apocalypse.