646f9e108c A federal witness runs away and a team of government agents track him down, but when they take a shortcut on the return trip, they&#39;re attacked by zombies. Smith, a mob informer hiding out with the Witness Protection Program, decides to make a break for it and hide out in the Arizona desert. The Feds catch up with him and rescue him just before a group of hitmen can manage to silence him for good. In the course of getting Smith away from the mafia thugs, the pair of agents assigned to protect him turn onto an abandoned stretch of highway nicknamed &#39;Route 666&#39; after the mysterious death of a prison chain gang. As the three continue on their way, they soon discover just what happened to the chain gang, and how the highway earned its name. Without even knowing what a films tagline is OR seeing a trailer, if it was made within the last 10 years and has either Lori Petty OR Lou Diamond Phillipsthe &quot;BIG NAMES&quot; attached to the project, all I can say is RRRRRUUUUUUNNNNN!!!! <br/><br/>I can&#39;t even add anything new to the previous comments about the horrible &#39;cinematography&#39;. All I can say is that if you do happen to watch this pile of festering dung, be sure to down a bottle of Dramamine first. The characters wereplastic and lifelessthe keyboard I&#39;m typing on and the zombies? My daughter has made more realistic figures in her pre-K class during arts and crafts time. OK… Back to Lou Diamond Phillips. An actor more washed-up than Paris Hilton&#39;s under filled bikini top on the beach after an all-night bender. He USED to be a decent actor, but like the other minor characters in the &#39;Brat Pack&#39; and similar people of that ilk, their time has come and gone. Lori Petty was great in &#39;A League Of Their Own&#39; but, then came &#39;Tank Girl&#39; and other crap that soon drug what little career she had through the ringer. <br/><br/>I don&#39;t need to dredge the storyline or plot premise out again, but let&#39;s just say that it&#39;s a movie, like someone else said, isn&#39;t sure what it wants to be. 0/10 stars William Wesley wrote, directed and produced this, more or less remake of his own &quot;Scarecrows&quot;. Federal Marshals are transporting an uncooperative (blabbermouth) witness across the Arizona desert to California. Attempting to avoid Russian gunmen trying to kill the witless witness, they take an old abandoned stretch of highway that has been dubbed &quot;Route 666&quot; after a chain gang accident happened there 35 years earlier. But in doing so, they are set upon by the spirits of the long-dead chain gang for trespassing on their territory. <br/><br/>The three leads are good, but some of the supporting players are awful (I&#39;m looking at you, Mercedes Colon) Good desert locations, and a decent music score help, but only to an extent. The low budget REALLY show here this time: the reflectors, lighting equipment and camera crew are reflected in the actors&#39; sunglasses in NEARLY EVERY SHOT, and the camera crew is reflected on the sides of their vehicles several time throughout the movie. Whenever the living dead chain gang is on screen, the camera starts shaking frantically, like it&#39;s in an earthquake; if that was Wesley&#39;s idea or the cinematographer Philip Lee&#39;s idea, who knows? either way it was annoyingall hell.<br/><br/>The ending is good enough, but it doesn&#39;t explain how the feds get out of the desert - the story mentions that they are 60-odd miles away from the nearest town. 60 miles is a hell of a long walk.
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