I have to hand it to director Wilson Yip, when he goes schlock, he goes all the way.

This movie focuses on two slacker mall workers, Woody Invincible (Jordan Chan) and Crazy B (Sam Lee) who barely work at a VCD store (What’s up, Late 90’s?!) and generally spend their days trying to make easy money by selling things or stealing from a girl who works at the beauty shop (Tong Ying-Ying).

On the way back from picking up their boss’s car, the two troublemakers hit a guy who is carrying the Zombie Juice Extract in a bulletproof case (good idea), which itself is in a plastic soda bottle (bad idea). He says “soft drink” while choking on his own blood, not realizing he’s dooming himself. The pair give him the beverage o’ doom before he dies and throw him in the trunk of their car. Because, well, when you hit someone with your car and kill them with orange soda, you ought to hang onto the evidence.

Then the movie veers off into shenanigans around the mall for at least another thirty minutes before the vehicularly-man-slaughtered-dude comes back as a member of the undead and makes with the bitey-bitey/spready-spready necessary to make a zombie film.

Seriously, this movie has the feeling of a meandering Kevin Smith-style slacker comedy, even when the undead start showing up, because both Woody and Crazy just aren’t as motivated as your average zombie fighting heroes. Even when the action starts, they (and the director) don’t even pretend that everything they know about zombies wasn’t just learned from playing video games.

Speaking of that…

Each character in the film is introduced with a 360 flyby complete with an overlay of their stats as if they were in a fighting game. Later on, a character picks up a gun and “Reload” is flashed on the screen. It’s sad when you find out Uwe Boll wasn’t quite the genius you thought he was when he made House of the Dead . Wait, what?-The Management

Once it finally gets rolling, this movie’s got that whole wacky/gore balance thing down pat. An arm gets ripped off, and blood splashes out of victims like they were 100% water instead of the usual 70. Though by the time the flick gets to the final reel, it takes quite the dark turn, even with it lacking any sort of real coherence. Eventually you realize that everyone here is fair game for zombie meats. This is at once an awesome point of genre defiance and a little disheartening, because what’s the point if no body makes it out alive?

Overall, this movie is an enjoyably weird flick-and as an added bonus you can turn on the English dub, which is the very definition of half-assed voice work. If you end up Cavalcading it, which I totally recommend by the way, Wild Zero would be a fine choice to keep the whole Asian weird-horror-comedy thing going.