DVD Review : Pulse 3

I sat down to watch "Pulse 3" and thought "Great this is the intense and shocking ending to a trilogy I never cared about or knew about...this is gonna be a long night". However I was lying a bit. I had seen Pulse (and if you haven't they make you watch a trailer of it at the start of the DVD) and thought it was okay. Also I was lying to myself in thinking this DVD would totally suck.

"Pulse 3" takes place nearly a decade after the events of Pulse 2 (anyone see that? Leave us a comment). The dead have returned to earth through our electronics. Justine (Brittany Finamore) is 17 years old and raised in a no technology refugee camp. She dreams of wanting to see what the city is like so she sets off towards to Houston to meet someone she met online. After she makes it there alive the real trouble starts.

Overall I thought "Pulse 3" was okay. For some reason I liked the plot (reminded me of Dateline) and the acting was really good for a straight to DVD title. However the one thing that really threw me off was all the use of greenscreens. I mean it was 100% obvious in this DVD when they were using greenscreens. Which seemed to be all the time. It was weird stuff they didn't even have to greenscreen in my opinon. I mean take this example: Justine finds an old house to spend the night. We can tell it's an old house and they even show the first two rooms. However randomly a man come up to say hello to her and BAM it's greenscreen time. Or a dog approaches her on the city street and BAM it's greenscreen time? Pretty strange stuff and really took me out of the film.

The features on this DVD are kinda light. All we get is a feature commentary by the director and
a 8 minute behind the scenes featurtte on the making of it. I will post that on the Blog soon.

Overall I give this DVD a C+. Rent it if you are a fan of the Pulse series.