This is an interesting movie. Released in 1999, Junk is a Japanese take on the gore rich zombie genre.
Based essentially around an abandoned factory, the movie puts on the cliched plot of mad scientist’s who want to play god create a chemical that can bring the dead back to life, and in return get killed.
What this film does is take scenes from a lot of movies across several genres. We have a robbery that goes wrong, an evil mafia leader who will double-cross the robbers and so on. The movie is incredibly predictable. I knew what’s going to happen in the next scene in the movie from the start, I knew who would survive and who would become dinner. I knew the script already before the characters had spoken. I knew the expressions they would pull upon a certain scene occurring. I knew all of this, yet I continued to watch it!
Yes it’s a predictable, gore-excused zombie flick. There’s nothing new in this movie (except for the strong female role – who is rather delicious anyway), but the ideas that it steals to put together in this movie are implemented well and it works. It’s like 10 different movies all rolled into one, and there’s zombies everywhere.
I did find myself getting bored at points, but then immediately after something else would happen to quicken the pace of the movie. The only unpredictable character makes them movie a little less enjoyable (you know how it goes, the bad character that just NEVER seems to bloody die!) to the point of ad nauseum.
The only infuriating and frustrating part in the whole movie was the Japanese guy trying to speak English. I would rather they dubbed him as opposed to let him speak Japlish. Everytime he spoke you would pray he use vowels and consonants in the correct order, that he doesn’t talk like he has someone’s foot in his mouth, and maybe, just maybe, you hope you can understand what the wanker is saying!! Perhaps they should have had English subs for his English speaking
Verdict: An enjoyable Japanese take on the Zombie horror movies. Squeamish people should not watch on a full stomach