This movie was a continuation of their first after a decade in their timeline. They have since then managed to stay alive by knowing the type of zombies and how to handle each one. They have also set up a home in the White House and Columbus (played by Jesse Eisenberg) proposed to Wichita (played by Emma Stone) while Tallahassee (played by Woody Harrelson) acts as if he is their surrogate father (which he denies).
Apocalypse have a different effect on people and it is where this movie starts off with. Wichita's younger sister, Little Rock (played by Abigail Breslin) is beginning to look for young people her age. She feels she can't relate anymore with the group and would like to move on. Wichita likewise feels too much attached to Columbus that she needed a break somehow. These feelings grew on them that they finally left Columbus and Tallahassee. This left Columbus heartbroken.
A month after being left behind, Columbus was moping with Tallahassee when he found another survivor, Madison (played by Zoey Deutch). Tallahassee immediately dislikes Madison but somehow Columbus invited her back to the White House. Deprived of sex for too long, Madison had one with Columbus. That same night, Columbus and Tallahassee found Wichita replenishing guns and ammo in the garage. She told them that Little Rock also left her for another survivor, Berkeley (played by Avan Jogia) going to Graceland.
This revelation set off a road trip by the group with Madison in tow. They almost caught up with her in a motel owned by Nevada (played by Rosario Dawson) when they saw two cooky characters in Albaqurque (played by Luke Wilson) and Flagstaff (played by Thomas Middleditch). This duo mirrors our lead tandem of Tallahassee and Columbus which made it creepy as per Wichita.
Eventually that new duo died just a few minutes of their introduction and the group (except for Nevada) sets forth to find Little Rock who went to Babylon. A place where its safe from them zombies yet they don't use violence. It was just said to be a place of high walls thus the zombies can't reach them.
Eventually the group caught up with Little Rock but she wasn't thrilled seeing them. In Babylon she's happy to mingle with people of same age as her. Columbus and Wichita decided to stay with Little Rock in Babylon and Tallahassee went on his way. As he was leaving, he met the new type of zombies on their way to Babylon.
He soon found out why these were going to Babylon, in the skies above Babylon, fireworks were exploding. Tallahassee went back to Babylon to warn its residents only to find out that there were no more guns there. Left with their wits, they fought the zombies and eventually they were able to defend Babylon.
Simply that place is not for them so they left for another adventure. Tallahassee with Nevada, Columbus and Wichita, and Little Rock did a road trip at the end of the movie.
The whole movie has a thin story if you take it as a zombie movie, which in fact it wasn't. Its a story of finding love amidst all the chaos or uncertainty. Columbus' desire of marriage was not the same with Wichita thus a long story can be found here. Little Rock also desired to find love among her peers, she took a journey that took her to Babylon, where she thought she could find it. Even Tallahassee who was skeptical about love finally found one in the end. So in the end, its a love story all the way, just with zombies running around and getting killed.
We really appreciated how the group blended well together in their first movie thus we find them again with the same chemistry here in Double Tap. Although the movie is dragging in most parts, its livened up by adding new characters with Madison (a horny dumb blonde), Berkeley (a pacifist and wannabee song writer), Nevada (Tallahassee's love interest here), Albuquerque (a mirror of Tallahassee) and Flagstaff (a mirror of Columbus). Although most of the new characters either died off or simply left in Babylon, we were disappointed that we won't see them in the next sequel if there was one. These characters have a certain quirks that endeared us to them. We hope that new colorful characters would pop up in the next one.
We also like the script and dialogues as they were nicely written. Pacing was sadly a bit slow like the homer zombies in the film but its forgivable when the scenes slightly pick up speed. We are not keen on zombie movies, but seldom there are those which we like and this is one of them.
Currently this is being shown on Netflix so queue this one up on one of your quarantine nights.
