Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 6:24 pm
Automatic +\- :
George A. Motherfuckin' Romero : +.5
Subtotal 1 : +.5 stars
Synopsis :
Zombies have taken over almost all of the Earth. Humans live in small, fortified cities. They raid outlying, abandoned settlements for supplies to survive. After one raid, a couple of the soldiers try to better their pathetic lives.
Review :
Considering the last zombie flick I watched was "Resident Evil : Apocalypse," watching a really tired person drink coffee looks like a better zombie film. I dunno why George wanted to make another film. Maybe he finally realized that "Day of the Dead" sucked or maybe he was just pised at all the substandard rip-offs of his work. Who cares, cos George is fuckin' back, baby.
We've got old-school zombies here going against (yet again) some of the most militarily inept & careless souls ever to clean a rifle. The plot centres around John Leguizamo trying to move into a sheltered high-rise apartment building & Simon Baker (the dude from "The Ring 2") trying to drive up north into the Canadian wilderness which is relatively zombie-free. Dennis Hopper plays complete bastard Kaufman in charge of the aforementioned high-rise building, as well as the biggest crimelord in a lawless town.
While there're a few plotholes, they're the same fucking plotholes in every zombie flick made since the beginning of time, so I attempted to look past this. Simon Baker doesn't do much of that "acting" thing, apparently & could've very well been replaced w\ a cardboard cut-out. Leguizamo seems miscast & he's not nearly threatening or bad-ass enough to physically pull off his character. Hopper turns in a decent performance (although he's fucking dead-pan in a few scenes).
This is head & motherfucking shoulders above most any horror flick put out in at least a few years & easily the best zombie flick since "Shaun of the Dead." As a sidenote, the writer-directors from "Shaun of the Dead" make cameos.
Subtotal 2 : 2.5 stars
Subtotal 1 + Subtotal 2 = 3 stars
Best dialogue :
Solider : "What the fuck does a Samoan know about hotwiring a car?"
Samoan : "In Samoa, fifty thousand cars stolen every year."
Solider : "Yeah, well, I'm from Detroit."
Samoan : "Detroit has fifty million cars. Samoa, only fifty thousand."
George A. Motherfuckin' Romero : +.5
Subtotal 1 : +.5 stars
Synopsis :
Zombies have taken over almost all of the Earth. Humans live in small, fortified cities. They raid outlying, abandoned settlements for supplies to survive. After one raid, a couple of the soldiers try to better their pathetic lives.
Review :
Considering the last zombie flick I watched was "Resident Evil : Apocalypse," watching a really tired person drink coffee looks like a better zombie film. I dunno why George wanted to make another film. Maybe he finally realized that "Day of the Dead" sucked or maybe he was just pised at all the substandard rip-offs of his work. Who cares, cos George is fuckin' back, baby.
We've got old-school zombies here going against (yet again) some of the most militarily inept & careless souls ever to clean a rifle. The plot centres around John Leguizamo trying to move into a sheltered high-rise apartment building & Simon Baker (the dude from "The Ring 2") trying to drive up north into the Canadian wilderness which is relatively zombie-free. Dennis Hopper plays complete bastard Kaufman in charge of the aforementioned high-rise building, as well as the biggest crimelord in a lawless town.
While there're a few plotholes, they're the same fucking plotholes in every zombie flick made since the beginning of time, so I attempted to look past this. Simon Baker doesn't do much of that "acting" thing, apparently & could've very well been replaced w\ a cardboard cut-out. Leguizamo seems miscast & he's not nearly threatening or bad-ass enough to physically pull off his character. Hopper turns in a decent performance (although he's fucking dead-pan in a few scenes).
This is head & motherfucking shoulders above most any horror flick put out in at least a few years & easily the best zombie flick since "Shaun of the Dead." As a sidenote, the writer-directors from "Shaun of the Dead" make cameos.
Subtotal 2 : 2.5 stars
Subtotal 1 + Subtotal 2 = 3 stars
Best dialogue :
Solider : "What the fuck does a Samoan know about hotwiring a car?"
Samoan : "In Samoa, fifty thousand cars stolen every year."
Solider : "Yeah, well, I'm from Detroit."
Samoan : "Detroit has fifty million cars. Samoa, only fifty thousand."