TheLittleSongbird Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis as far as zombie movies go is not as bad as House of the Dead, Vampegeddon, Zombie Night, Vampires vs. Zombies and Zombie Nation, and I do remember Rave to the Grave being slightly worse, but it is a disgrace to the Return of the Living Dead series (the previous three movies vary in quality, but never to the same level of badness of Necropolis and Rave to the Grave).There is hardly anything good to say about it, other than that the zombie make-up was pretty good and the use of Alice Cooper's Cold Machines was cool and used appropriately. That's where any redeeming merits end. Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis is poorly-made, there is a distinct lack of atmosphere and everything just looks drab and cheap from the haphazard camera work, cheap and sometimes gratuitous gore and incomplete-looking effects. Apart from Cold Machines, the heavy rock soundtrack is over-bearing and takes one of the movie completely.The movie's direction is so flat it completely undermines any tension or suspense, while the script is so awkward-sounding and intelligence-insultingly dumb, tension and suspense is replaced by rapidly tiresome unintentional humour and the story is thin, dull, mind-numbingly stupid and often leads nowhere. The scary moments are all predictable and come off cheesily, and Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis does a poor job with the zombies, they should be the stars and heart of their movie but are severely under-utilised and when they do appear they are very goofy, lifeless and not menacing at all.Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis' characters are as thin as paper and so incredibly dumb they come off irritating, while the acting is a bad mixture of over-acting and going-through-the-motions, I found myself most annoyed by Peter Coyote. To conclude, there are worse zombie movies around but Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis is a disgrace to the series. 2/10 Bethany Cox

Phil Hubbs Necropolis...a great name for film title but I'm afraid the franchise has lost its impetus with this next installation. Again naughty people are trying to use the deadly toxic gas to reanimate the dead and use for military weapons but once again it all goes wrong and the undead run amok...oh geez.We are now firmly in B-movie land with this one, the acting is quite terrible from all members including Peter Coyote and the plot is just a rehash against a different backdrop. The only thing going for this is the well done makeup effects which is just as good as the previous films and makes the film better than it deserves to be. These films are all about the cool hands on makeup effects lets be honest, and they all deliver consistently. This is the one thing these sequels manage to pull off despite the fact they rehash everything else. In that aspect they just about hold your attention if you're a monster/gore lover but the rest is usually pants.Nice idea and design for the undead Terminator style soldiers, a small plus point in a sinking film. One has to ask ones self how many more of these can they do? they are clearly trying to utilize every possible backdrop for the zombie outbreaks, I guess a desert setting will be next, haven't seen that yet.3/10

licktheenvelope I am a big fan of thew original Return of the Living Dead, and like the 2nd and 3rd just fine. I wasn't expecting much from 4, but was hoping they would go back to slightly more campy than 3 which was more of a serious love story. Not a terrible film though. What we have here is soooooo much worse.First off the zombies in ROTLD Necropolis DIE EASILY!!! Several times they just shoot the zombies and that's it. At one point there's a mock 3 on 3 fist-fight between the kids and some zombies and the zombies are THROWING PUNCHES! *sigh* Was it really so hard to stick with the "Zombies run after people and grab them" tried and true method." As mentioned in a couple of reviews there's a number of scenes filled with characters 'running out of ammo' for guns, including 3 times in less than 30 seconds. This particular writing selection struck me as odd as they had the kids in a massive armoury.The writing in this movie is just awful, not original anywhere, clichéd and over the top... but sadly it doesn't give you any kind of character development or cohesive plot."They are making UBER Zombies!" ... Wow...Such a bad bad movie. There's so many scenes of pure annoyance I can't go through them all without suffering mental issues.

ctomvelu-1 A bunch of teens breaks into an evil corporation's HQ to rescue their buddy, and end up unleashing a plague of zombies on the world. That's the basic plot of ROTLD: NECROPOLIS, and it stinks to high heaven. Peter Coyote appears in this as a nutty scientist, and God only knows what he must have been thinking! He reanimates a severed arm encased in a Lucite box sitting on a work table, and sort of teases it as the hand lunges at him. The real joke is, you can see that the arm belongs to someone sitting under the box and table. I've seen worse -- HOUSE OF THE DEAD and some of those nickel-and-dime Italian zombie flicks come to mind -- but this one is virtually unwatchable.