COCKNEYS VS ZOMBIES

Andy and Terry, two unemployed brothers who became orphans as children, decide to help their grandfather, whom they are very close to, by organizing a bank robbery to find the necessary funds to save the nursing home where the elderly man is staying. Having succeeded in the endeavor thanks to the help of their cousin and two other local criminals, upon exiting the building, the makeshift gang finds themselves facing a tragic situation: the East End of London, in fact, has been infected by a virus that has turned all the inhabitants into zombies. The protagonists, after taking refuge for a moment in a warehouse, decide to head towards the nursing home to save their grandfather and his fellow residents. The relationship between zombie movies and comedy could be defined without any hesitation as the story of a nearly impossible bond, at least in appearance. Two film genres that, at opposite ends in form and content, have always winked at each other with the figures of the undead becoming easy targets for irony and parodic sequences. A mix that has grown and proven successful in recent years with works that have managed to combine the taste for splatter images with hilarious sketches, thus managing to attract a wide audience no longer confined to the usual niche. A new course, enriched by titles that have become cult classics such as "Welcome to Zombieland" by Ruben Fleischer and "Shaun of the Dead" by Edgar Wright, to which the German director Matthias Hoene wanted to join. His debut film "Cockneys vs Zombies", in fact, stands out for its ability to entertain and concentrate within it witty jokes in the full style of British humor and liters of blood. In short, there is something for everyone. What stands out most about Hoene is his ability to create a plot that is not particularly original but certainly well-crafted and with a good pace, a merit not to be underestimated given the difficult task of carrying forward a structure with two episodes that move in parallel before rejoining in the final part. Beyond these undeniable qualities, the story stands out for a slight social vein with the author pausing to photograph a London different from the one the average viewer is used to seeing on the big screen, that is, that of the working class. We do not see, therefore, postcard images and the typical monuments of the English capital, but the camera lingers on panoramas of dilapidated streets and factories whose fumes make the typically gloomy sky of the city even grayer. An apocalyptic scenario in which the characters move, who are well characterized and suited to the caricatured tone of the story. Among them, the figures of Andy and Terry stand out, played brilliantly by Harry Treadaway and Rasmus Hardiker, who fully embody the classic comic duo formed by two perfect bunglers and incompetents. "Cockneys vs Zombies", in conclusion, is an enjoyable B-movie capable of offering an hour and a half of carefree entertainment without disdaining splatter scenes in which there is a certain accuracy in the makeup of the zombies.