Office Uprising Review

Interest: 4/10

Acting: 5/10

Storyline: 6/10

Intensity: 5/10

Fights Guns or otherwise: 7/10

Excitement: 5/10

Energy Drinks Consumed: 10/10

Nudity: 0/10

Funny: 5/10

Office Uprising is an action, comedy, horror film made is the current year of 2018. Run time is an hour and twenty-four minutes. That being said zombie ideas haven’t died and while this idea is unique, it isn’t fantastic, A military arms manufacturer makes a super substance for soldiers to stay alert and well for days, the bad batch the first made made zombies, and the office workers at the arms plant are now “zombies” and a few people want to make it out alive. So let’s dive in shall we?

Interest: So while on the surface this film sounds pretty darn interesting, Office Uprising is a slow burner (not in a good way) and when it finally does start getting entertaining, it becomes only interesting when certain people are on screen, and that is bad, because that means only certain times there is tension, or a comedy bit, and that really drags this film down quite a bit. You have one or two charecters that typically end up in movies like this (Karan Soni and Alan Ritchson) but otherwise to my knowledge of random movie watching, most of the other people in this film are either new, or people I’ve never heard of. And not to say that they were bad, it could very well of been the script, but it made it hard to keep watching while my mind just keeps wandering to anything else that may call for my attention, or for me to google some random idea I had.

Acting: The acting in the movie was pretty average, it wasn’t fantastic and it wasn’t just a stick in the mud either, it was amusing, but just in the sense of someone talking slightly louder than they need to to talk to you, not quite yelling just a loud talk, and then after the conversation you go “Wow, that was interesting” and then go on with your day. That being said it at least has some value with the characters in the film being kind of interesting and have a little bit of depth to them, not enough to wonder what happens after the movie, but it pushes itself through to the end.

Storyline: So the storyline, while not something brand spanking new, is at least kind of funny, where it does get the movie going, is partially a funny one poking fun at things like energy drinks and almost being like Brondo for Idiocracy, and also using the old zombie trope to make something semi-fresh that was a fun thought experiment, but what hopefully was on paper, I don’t think was fully realized on the screen.

Intensity: Some of the hype that happens before a fight in Office Uprising, can be intense, but sadly the steam runs out quickly as the fights never last long. That being said, intensity doesn’t carry almost at all from scene to scene, making you almost question what happened and not make it feel like there is necessarily a true urgency for anything, and it isn’t the comedic effect that is ruining it, it’s just tension flees from scene to scene.

Fights Guns or otherwise: this is the one (Real) category where this film shines honestly. The fights while sometimes quick, are entertaining and fun and makes you want to keep going on, but it only can do it so much. Office Uprising tries to use this as a way to push through the sludge, and it works, but it isn’t pretty or nice, the rest of the film really makes these excellent stand out points, but also showcases the major flaws of this film and how it is pretty empty as a whole.

Excitement: Most of the excitement is made in the fights and a couple of small jump scares we get. But it never becomes thrilling, it doens;t have any large defining moments, anything to really grip you and make you go “WOW!” it had a moment or two that was better than the rest but it won’t get your heart pumping, either from fear or excitement.

Energy Drinks Consumed: This is where the movie excelled the best, was energy drink consumption, and while this might be a cheat category to pump it’s numbers up (Rating honestly doesn’t matter you’re going to watch what you want to watch) it did show lot’s of energy drink consumption, and I mean at least the can looks cool!

Nudity: There was no nudity in this film, it doesn’t harm nor hurt it really, but I certainly feel like if you watch this film, you’d think that there should have been one, because it feels like one of those movies that has boobs in it for the sake of boobs.

Funny: The movie is a bit of a comedy, and it’s supposed to be, but the humor becomes so muddled in everything else that the humor gets mixed in with the rest of the muddled mess. I did chuckle a few times, but not as much as a was expecting. But it was tickle your funny bone better than mine.

So how does this movie fair? Should you watch it? Honestly, not really, if you’re trying to watch someones filmography, sure then finish it, and if you like ripping into movies as well, then go make fun of it, but if you’re bored, just got off work on a Monday night and go “Should I watch Office Uprising?” That answer from me is a fairly stiff no. It even scored a 47% in my scoring system, which is pretty bad, I think the worst yet, and it just wasn’t that pleasant to me. Watch if you’d like to.