I was going to complain about the soldiers wearing plate carriers and helmets to an island populated by zombies who don't use weapons because that's a foolproof recipe for zombies wearing plate carriers and helmets, but it's explained that they weren't meant to be there and didn't know what they were doing so it's whatever. Still, that feels like a chekov's gun, like if you're going to show soldiers in bulletproof gear getting turned into zombies then that should be something that comes up again at some point. Would have been cool idk.
You could 100% just replace the "alpha" bullshit with this.
Like, what purpose does the alpha serve in the story? It serves one function when it keeps Kraven and OneyNG from leaving the house at night. It serves another function when it chases them across the causeway -- it doesn't go down in one shot, but that literally doesn't matter because they have no arrows, the tension doesn't come from it being a big fuck, it comes from them trying to outrun it with no recourse. Then it serves another function when it wrecks the lone swede and again can't be put down from one shot. Then Voldemort shuts it down with tranq (not a tranquilizer dart, literally tranq, aka heroin and xylazine, a fucking street drug from east st louis). Then it comes back and does nothing and fucks off. Oh and it mercs some swedish seamen, but only after half of them get turned by regular infected.
Half of these things can be just as easily accomplished by regular infected, and the other half can be just as easily accomplished by a zombie in a plate carrier. Regular infected can keep them from escaping the house. A zombie in a plate carrier can take multiple arrows to the chest without being affected. And as we're shown, the seamen can be brought down by regular infected.
Do the scene where Kraven and OneyNG are stuck in the attic. Cut all the bullshit about alphas, just have them be pinned down and wait out the night. Show Kraven seeing the patrol ship, cut the part where he wakes OneyNG up as an excuse for a loredump, show the ship going down. Have regular infected chase them across the causeway, let the tension come from whether the watchtower NPCs can save them in time. Show the scene of the swedish seamen getting got, have some of them get infected, have some of them get away, skip the alpha bullshit, instead use this as a chance to establish that zombies in armor are a big deal by showing how ineffectual traditional weapons are against them. Then when something needs to wreck the lone swede, instead of a big retarded mongoloid monster paki ripping his fucking head off like Mortal Kombat, just bring in his old squadmates in plate carriers and helmets who are (practically) impervious to both his bullets and the kid's arrows -- this is already perfectly built up with all the "head and heart" bullshit they keep harping on. He can still go down to tranq, he can still come back and do nothing.
There. No more need for retarded Far Cry Tomb Raider zombie supermen, the swedes serve a purpose in the movie now, and we get an exploration of how preparedness for a zombie apocalypse differs from traditional preparedness for armed combat in a way I've personally never seen before since the standard gear that the swedes bring onto the island to protect themselves winds up being their demise. I can't fix the whole movie but I can get rid of a lot of stupid bullshit with a much more graceful and grounded and frankly fucking cool idea. Pay me.
