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This one needs a pic of the sleeve for context. So, it appears to be trading off World war z, an anaemic and flawed and screwed-by-studio-tampering zombie movie that while mainly disappointing to anyone familiar with the source material was actually sort of fun in its own bland middle of the road sort of way. So, even if its a publicity stunt to market the film., pulling an asylum and trading off the back of a film that severely tanked critically and commercially might not be the best of starts. Ad into the mix a producers credit for Uwe Boll (who also appears as the US president) and confidence in the product slides even further, but then a quid at a charity shop is still a good incentive for the curious so here we are....
Basically the government have created a zombie virus and released it over some small Ukrainian town (cause eastern Europe is still cheap to shoot films in) pretty much everyone is turned into a zombie, though the production values show up here as its rarely more than a half dozen at best swanning about in any given shot. Naturally they don't want word of this to get around so they send in an 8 man team of mercs to plant a nuke... and that's it really. Basically its a bunch of actors in military garb running about shooting zombies for 90 minutes. Nothing clever and nothing original.
That said, I direct you back to world war Z at this point. A film with a huge budget that is basically a similar thing. Only instead of generic rent a grunt soldiers its Brad Pitt, and we get a bit more variety in locations and more zombies on screen. Perversely world war z probably cost a thousand times more than this and the trade off being lots less gore.
As bad as Apocalypse Z is (and its pretty bad in a low rent sort of way) the film is at least cheap and cheerful and you get more of a sense of fun, rather than the clinical attempt to please everyone that results in no one being pleased that its bigger budget cousin offers.
Essentially this cheapie offers more gore, more stupidity and a bigger sense of idiotic fun that WWZ, and it didn't waste so much cash doing it.
See it cheap, then pick it up.