What We Become is one of the many films to have jumped on the now heavily over-saturated zombie genre. Released in 2016, the Danish film somehow managed to win over a few critics, managing to snag a fairly decent 78% score on Rotten Tomatoes.
To make it clear, 78% is certainly 76% too high of a rating. There is absolutely nothing enjoyable about this film. Nothing about it works, and nothing about it makes it stand out from the plethora of other zombie films that have plagued the genre.
In short, the narrative is about a suburban area that is experienced a strange sickness, eventually it becomes bordered off by the army and the citizens left within are stuck attempting to understand just what is happening. Unfortunately, the film is so poorly made that it doesn't even work as a claustrophobic film riddled with fear rather than action--think of It Comes At Night; now think of the complete opposite of that--and it's just so mediocre throughout.
Its awful writing has you at one moment witnessing a character death, followed by an immediate sex scene after the girl witnesses that relative's death. There is no actual pacing, no actual character development, and genuinely no real narrative here. We are not witnessing fear, the slow descent into madness, or the attempts of survival of a group of people in such a confined space; we're just watching a family make the worst moves possible with the odd sex scene between two completely insufferable teenagers and really should have died within the first minute.
In reference to its name, What We Become doesn't fit at all. What are we becoming, just zombies? What's the threat here aside from that? Wait a minute, what are they actually becoming? It never actually clarifies it.
For the first post-apocalyptic zombie to be made in Denmark, I sincerely hope it is the last from those filmmakers.
