Zhandi: Yìzhong haojie
2022 [CHINESE]
Action / Sci-Fi
80%
AUDIENCE
3.8/10
377
Plot summary
Earth has completely succumbed to an alien invasion, and the planet, which was once everyone's home, has become a hell. To stop the monsters from invading, the guard troops formed by different countries have disregarded their personal safety to defend what is left. Cheng Ling, who barely survived the times by scavenging from the garbage, met Zhu Rong's team when he was being attacked by an alien hellhound. With the help of Gao Ren and the others, Cheng Ling believes that it's destiny that leads him here, so he decided to accept the mission to destroy the aliens' evil plans and search for new hope for humanity. Along the way, the team was encircled by the plunderers and chased by hellhounds. They met Dr. Dojepamo, who had mastered the technology to subdue the hellhounds. When the group finally arrived at the resistance point, they discovered that the so-called resistance point was just a trap set by the hellhound hunters. The real danger has just begun...
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45/100 A ragtag group of fighters try to
No surprises here. Entire movie is basically a
Mindless sci-fi action...
Of course I had never heard about this 2022 Chinese sci-fi action movie titled "Zhandi: Yìzhong Haojie" (aka "Battlefield Fall of the World") prior to stumbling upon it here in 2024 by random chance. And of course I opted to sit down and watch it given the recent years flood of creature features that has been spewing forth from the Chinese cinema; some good, some not so good.
Writers Dada Huang and Zhaosheng Huang put together an entertaining enough script for the movie. It is mindless entertainment, where you just grab your snack, lean back and enjoy the humans vs. Aliens action on the screen. There is very little to think about in the movie, and it doesn't make much of any sense; especially when you see how the aliens effortlessly tore through platoons of soldiers, and yet we are to believe that three sole survivors are capable of overcoming the alien overlord invasion. Sure...
The narrative in the movie was dull and slow paced, so very, very slow paced. I ended up giving up on finish watching the movie about halfway through. By then I was just so bored with the lack of any real story progress, and the stale narrative, that I just didn't want to keep watching.
I wasn't familiar with the cast ensemble in the movie, but the Chinese cast were nicely cast and put on good performances, whereas the non-Chinese cast put on mostly dubious and questionable performances, especially the platoon leader in the beginning of the movie.
Visually then "Zhandi: Yìzhong Haojie" was okay. The CGI effects are good, but of course not a match for the top of the line Hollywood productions. But for a Chinese movie such as this, then the effects were actually quite good.
My rating of director Zhaosheng Huang's 2022 movie "Zhandi: Yìzhong Haojie" lands on a four out of ten stars.