From Parts Unknown (2015) User Reviews

Groovy

[nogodnomasters · 6/10 · 28 November 2017]

Brain (Trevor Wight) steals the proverbial florescent green liquid from a military zombie institute. They are nano-bots that he plans on using to make an addictive fight game. A spill causes his boss to become a super strong homicidal maniac. As this spreads, Charlie (Jenna Dwyer) her co-workers and other "professional" wrestlers are the only ones who can stop them.

The film was designed to be campy. About midway through there was a "groovy" homage to Bruce Campbell as his on screen persona was utilized by a man armed with a fire extinguisher. I caught a line from "Independence Day" and a few from "Unforgiven" but didn't know if they were intentional. It is sometimes hard to tell homage scenes without a director's commentary.

Charlie fell down a lot during the film, sometimes for comedic value. When she wasn't falling down she was practicing falling down. I liked Brain's T-shirt, "Jesus is Coming. Look Busy." Choreographed fight scenes shouldn't be run in slow motion when it shows a person falling down before they get hit unless you do it for camp value, but then make it obvious.

Not for everyone type of film. camp/cult/grindhouse Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity. blood and guts

Pro wrestlers. Zombie. Australian accents. This one has it all.

[BandSAboutMovies · 5/10 · 20 August 2018]

Charlie watched her pro wrestler dad die in the ring, was raised by wrestlers and is now in the middle of an end of the world zombie extinction level event. From Parts Unknown: Fight Like a Girl! is that kinda movie.

This movie is based on director Daniel Armstrong's (MurderDrome) time in the video game industry, specifically a failed wrestling game project. There are a lot of shout outs to Evil Dead 2 in here, as this film aspires beyond its small budget to be an Australian Shaun of the Dead, except, you know, with pro wrestlers.

While originally shot in 2006 and 2007, the film sat on the shelf until Armstrong's later work got known. Over the following years, attempts to finish the movie were made. At one point, the director's car was destroyed by a drunk off-duty police officer and the insurance money was just enough to allow shooting to continue. Finally, in 2014, after the success of MurderDrome, shooting and editing were both finally finished.

This is a movie that's not afraid to be beyond goofy and silly. It's not perfect by any means, but it's a fun take on the genre and most of the cast trained to be actual wrestlers, which is pretty cool. There's plenty of gore and one scene that legitimately made me laugh when the zombie personal assistant kept trying to find the exact right pose and had to keep pulling her body into position.

Not really an entertaining movie...

[paul_haakonsen · 3/10 · 26 November 2019]

I sat down to watch "From Parts Unknown" (aka "Fight Like a Girl") with the impression that I was in for either a monster movie or a zombie movie. Turns out that it wasn't really much of either.

"From Parts Unknown" is a low budget movie, no doubt about it. And while you shouldn't just write it off just yet based on that fact, some low budget movies are actually fun to watch, either from having heart and spirit, or from being so phenomenally bad that they are good. "From Parts Unknown" wasn't either of those as well.

Turns out that this movie is somewhat of a strange mixture of movie genres put into a blender and served all mixed up, for better or worse. The comedy aspects of the movie didn't really work for me, and the zombie aspect was just half-hearted and once the zombies started talking I was done.

Sure, there were aspects of the movie that showed potential, but writer and director Daniel Armstrong just never really fully took advantage of that and used it to the best possible solution. As such, the movie just felt low budget and amateurish. That might be a harsh judgment, but that is the impression I was left with once the movie ended and I had endured some rough testing of my will to go on.

The acting in the movie was subpar, but that was mostly because of a poor script and underdeveloped characters in the story.

I am rating "From Parts Unknown" a mere three out of ten stars, because the movie didn't capture my interest and there was so very little in the movie that was actually worthwhile sitting through. I did endure the entire movie, but I can honestly say that I will not be returning to watch it a second time.