Battle of the Damned (2013)

Following a deadly viral outbreak, private military soldier Max Gatling leads a handful of survivors and a ragtag band of robots against an army of the infected.

Director:

Christopher Hatton

Writer:

Christopher Hatton

Stars:

Dolph Lundgren, Melanie Zanetti, Matt Doran

Cast

Cast overview:
Dolph Lundgren	...	Max Gatling
Melanie Zanetti	...	Jude
Matt Doran	...	Reese
David Field	...	Duke
Jen Sung	...	Elvis (as Jen Kuo Sung)
Lydia Look	...	Lynn
Oda Maria	...	Anna
Jeff Pruitt	...	Smiley
Kerry Wong	...	Dean
Esteban Cueto	...	Hernandez
Broadus Mattison	...	Broadus
Tim Cooper	...	Robot Voice (as Timothy Cooper)

Storyline

After a zombie outbreak in Asia, the mercenary Major Max Gatling is hired by a wealthy industrialist that was the responsible for the pandemic to rescue his daughter Jude with his team from a city. Max loses his group that is killed by the zombies and stays alone to accomplish his assignment. He finds Jude and learns that there are other survivors; Duke, Reese, Elvis, Lynn and Anna. She refuses to flee alone without the others and Duke and Elvis handcuff Max on a power pole to die. However, when Reese discovers that Jude is pregnant and the city will be firebombed, he rescues Max to save Jude. Then they find a group of robots killing zombies and Max reprograms them to help the survivors to escape. Will the group succeed to escape?

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Plot Keywords:

robot | zombie | machine gun | undead | pregnant woman | 

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Taglines:

He didn't come here to be a hero, but things change.

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Genres:

Action | Adventure | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for violence throughout and language

Details

Official Sites:

Bleiberg Entertainment [United States] Official Facebook

Country:

USA Singapore

Language:

English

Release Date:

14 March 2014 (India)

Also Known As:

Adbhut Yodha

Filming Locations:

Johor Baru, Johor, Malaysia

Company Credits

Production Co:

Compound B,Boku Films,Vividthree Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

88 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

A few scene in the movie was shot in Johor Bahru, Malaysia.

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Goofs

[All goofs for this title are spoilers.]

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Connections

References Robotropolis (2011)

User Reviews

Lundgren versus the infected and robots

A contagious virus escapes from a research facility turning people into flesh eating killers. The city is quarantined and a soldier and his team are hired to rescue his daughter.

Christopher Hatton writes and directs this low budget science fiction romp that fuses two sub-genre subjects, the modern zombie-infected and Robots. Coincidently it shares the same basic concept as Zombie Massacre (2013) and elements from a lesser known zombie film Severed: Forest of the Dead (2005).

Shaky camera shots aside it's a b-film that has atmosphere thanks to the unusual Malaysian location and interesting architecture. The generic costume design fittingly works, the music by Joe Ng and Ting Si Hao although borrowing from many sci-fi films is excellent. The violence is aplenty, with the gun and abundance of knife play being effective enough.

There's no small Dolph Lundgren cameo it's very much is his film focusing on his Max Gatling character throughout. Both actresses Oda Maria as Anna and Melanie Zanetti as Jude are notable with the rest of the cast being adequate given Hatton's limited script. The zombies sadly are not the slow shambling kind and the robot CGI effects are a mixed bag. Nevertheless, the relationship between both the main robot (voiced by Tim Cooper) and Max is quiet interesting and humorous. Beneath the low end production there is quite a good story even if it swaps development, depth and pacing for action.

Don't expect too much, Hatton has a lot on his hands juggling all the high concept elements coherently and keeps it linear but what is on offer is the infected, robots and soldier high-jinks and basically that's what it delivers.