Tacticalin An absolute waste of money

Anoushka Slater While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Winifred The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

sol- An uneasy alliance develops between hardened criminals and the policemen raiding their apartment block as a zombie plague wages outside in this French take on the horror subgenre. While hardly exploring new or original territory, the film has some memorable touches, most notably as the group torment a female zombie pinned to the ground and talk about gang banging her, highlighting just monstrous non-zombies can be. There is also a well done bit in which one man plows into a crowd of zombies as if he is playing rugby. For the most part though, 'La Horde' never reaches its potential. There are a lot of zombie attacks, but they occur so quickly with rapid fire editing that there is no chance to bask in the madness of bodies ripped apart. The macho characters get on the nerves quite quickly too with the film soon becoming less about cops and criminals united together and more about tough men competing to show off how tough they are. There is one prominent female character, however, she is so bitter and twisted that she remains hard to warm too throughout and her actions in the film final's scene leave a sour taste in the mouth. Fortunately, the film focuses largely on Yves Pignot, who brings much comic relief as a war veteran relishing in the chance to use his army training again to fend off the zombie plague, but this is still hard a film to recommend without reservations.

Fella_shibby Saw this in 2009 on a rented DVD. Highly recommended for fans of action/zombie films. It is about a group of cops and hardened criminals who r forced to work together against a common menace. U may find shades of Assault on precinct 13, Raid redemption n Dawn of the dead. It is a very violent film, tension filled, fast-paced without the gore. The direction from Dahan and Rocher is excellent and is backed up by intense performances from all involved. The fight scenes r brutal n intense with an enormous energy. There is a good hand-to-hand martial arts style zombie fighting. Obviously the restrained budget allowed for a claustrophobic set up n the action takes place within an isolated bldg. Also some of the shaky cam stuff might be a lil tedious but nonetheless its a must one time watch for horror/action fans.

manjodude Whoa! This is one quite unknown zombie movie which surpassed my expectations.What starts out as a typically vengeance drama between two warring groups(cops vs gangsters) in a run-down apartment takes an unexpected turn when they both least expect it. We don't get to know how the people result in zombies. Mostly, the movie revolves around the survivors who would have finished each other off if not for the undead...First rate acting by everybody. Yves Pignot as one of the crazy, trigger-happy apartment tenants is a powerhouse! Eriq Ebouaney as Markudi, the head of the gangsta mob also impresses with his intensity and searing eyes.What is quite creepy here are not the zombies, its the clash between the lead characters and how the zombies are really not cruel as these people. They are just hungry...Watch out for the violence, it's quite graphic.Of course, sometimes the scenes don't make sense - where did these zombies come from, how did they become zombies, how come they get up only when our survivors just tiptoe by.. :) Verdict: A claustrophobic yet very engaging drama. This's one movie, zombie or not, that hooks you whole.

TdSmth5 After reaching its peak with Martyrs, French horror doesn't seem to have produced anything noteworthy. The Horde doesn't change that downward trend.Four rogue cops mount an operation to take revenge on a gang of drug lords who at some point in the past killed a cop belonging to their unit. They have to raid a building that has been abandoned, except for the mobsters and some tenants too poor to go anywhere else. The operation goes ridiculously wrong. Soon they are held by the mobsters. Not long after they start hearing sounds and the entire building is surrounded by zombies who start to make their way in.A cop is bitten by the zombies, a couple of the bad guys turn into zombies. The remaining good guys and bad guys have to form an unlikely alliance to survive. They go through the building and meet a gung ho and highly armed tenant who joins them for the pleasure of killing. The bad guys are two African brothers, the main leader who bullies the little brother and a flashy mobster who doesn't want to have anything to do with cops. The cops include the main guy and some tough ill-looking skinny chick who at no point forgets why they went there to begin with. They all go throughout the building running into dead ends and hordes of zombies. One different thing about this movie is that our characters like to engage in fist fights with zombies for some reason, first of all of course the supposedly tough chick. If that weren't pointless enough, even though they do find out that zombies die when shot in the head, they prefer to waste thousands of round shooting zombies in the body.There's really nothing that stands out with this movie. There is one potentially troubling scene but the movie doesn't quite go there, but it gets close. There isn't a whole lot of gore for a French horror movie. There's quite a bit of violence. Apparently there's a considerably longer version out there somewhere, but what good is it if no one can get ahold of it. When is this nonsense going to stop of releasing edited DVD versions? I can understand that theatrical versions may have to be edited, but why release cut DVDs? One problem with this movie and some of its kind is that the zombies are the quick runner types. That just isn't scary. One may think it ought to be but it just isn't. Another problem is that people bitten turn into zombies in a minute, so they don't even look like zombies, just like regular people with sharp teeth and blood around their mouths- not very scary either. Add to that some unconvincing possibly CGI blood and some dumb behavior by the characters, most of whom are suicidal, and you get a below-average horror movie. I'm still waiting for a great extreme French horror zombie movie. The Horde isn't it.