Wild Zero
Overrated. A friend of mine, knowing my love for bad zombie movies, told me to buy this movie and if I didn’t love it, he’d reimburse me. I want my 15 bucks back.
This movie has cult-classic status but I’m not sure why, considering it’s not intentionally funny, it’s not unintentionally funny, it’s not nearly as gory as advertised, and it sure ain’t good. Maybe the film only appeals to Japanophiles and Guitar Wolf fans, and I am neither, so that could be why I don’t get it. I just see a tired premise, bad acting, worse effects, unsuccessful shock value, and an entire movie based on the strength of a cameo of a band that I don’t know and don’t find especially interesting.
Ace is a dippy, clueless bad-boy and Number One Fan of Japanese rockabilly-punk band Guitar Wolf, famous in real life for live sets on speed and physics-defying volume. True to form, in the film they play fast and loud, with the benefit of oversized American flags, microphones that belch fire, and guitars that zap each other with beams of electricity.
Ace has a talent for bumbling into dangerous situations he doesn’t understand, beginning with a confrontation between Guitar Wolf and a club owner with a predilection for short shorts and Beatle wigs in various colors. It ends with mystery actors getting their heads exploded, several continuity goofs, and Guitar Wolf making Ace their “rock and roll blood brother”.
A meteorite hits a rural Japanese town, turning people into blue-faced zombies as the club owner pursues Guitar Wolf and Ace encounters a beautiful girl named Tobio. Too bad Tobio is a pre-op transsexual, appropriately played by a Thai actor with ears like wings, who neglects to mention that s/he is a ladyboy complete with man junk until she takes it all off ,much to Ace’s horror. Good thing Guitar Wolf shows up in a well-timed vision to scream “Love has no nationalities, borders or genders!”
Aw, how sweet. Even the zombies find true love, complete with effects like the images from those Japanese photobooths that surround your face with roses and Pokemon characters.
The zombie purists among you will likely find this movie annoying: zombies here can think, speak, plan, and shoot demolition-grade lasers out of their eyeballs.
Gore hounds will probably also be disappointed: there are several effects done by CGI and frankly I expected a whole lot more guts from a zombie B-movie.
Guitar Wolf’s entire purpose in this movie appears to be to distract from the weak plot and writing with sound bites, posing, loud music, hair combing, and magical-zombie-killing-guitar-pick effects. Cheesy gore and musicians giving rock’n'roll attitude is hardly enough to constitute an actual movie.
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