Ok, I know I was always a bit defensive on Day of the Deads part. I reasoned that any zombiefilm is something to at least look forward too, and to await judgement until I saw it.
Well, I saw it.
And it sucks.
Beware, there might be spoilers ahead. But believe me, this is not a film you'd want to see anyway.
The film is so bad on so many levels. Everything. The dialoge, the zombies, the plot, the acting, the characters, the action etc. etc.
The dialouge is so horrid. In one scene, Mena Suvari declares that she does not like loaded guns. The guy she is riding the humvee with answers with "I am a vegetarian, by the way". End of scene. What the ****? First off, the vegetarian part is a hugely ineffective planting of what is to come. You all know what I speak. The second part is, Mena Suvaris answer to why she doesn't like loaded guns is "It's complicated." Aha, I think. This will surely be explained later.
Nope. The subject is dropped there. She never explains it further. Why the **** even keep it in the movie?
Ving Rhames dialouge seems to be written for Ving Rhames by a lousy scriptwriter. And it shows. He's tough, Ving Rhames-style, 100% of the time, instead of acting like the officer he portrays.
The character "Salazar" is a private in the army, though he acts more like an immature gangster-wannabe. He's a 1-dimensional "token black guy", with lines such as "Hell yeah, that's what I'm talking about!" and other things we've seen in thousands of films before. Hugely annoying. His constant chatter about black people vs. white people just makes me want to slam my head in the wall.
Then Steve from Dawn makes a comeback. You know that insanely poorly written character whose only purpose was to sit in the background in scenes and deliver lines that would prove to the audience that this guy is a 100% egomaniac. This time, it's "Dr. Logan". He never lifts a finger to do anything good, instead he berates the main characters for their mistakes, faults and weaknesses rather than doing anything himself. Why, god, why? Another completly 1-d character who's just annyoing and detracts from the film! Give it a rest! These characters are just as stereotypical as the token black guys.
Oh and Bud. Vegetarian zombie. Whatever.
The zombies. By now you've all heard the tales. The zombies run, leap, climb on ceilings, in airducts, blow upp when set on fire and are hugely effective at tearing people to pieces, unless it happens to be the main characters. It also takes about 1 second for a person to go from still breathing into a zombie who has most of his skin burned/rotted off and with the capabilities way beyond that of the average human being. Good thing that every main character in this film is a top-ace gunslinger. Nobody ever misses a shot to the brain.
The plot keeps moving all the time. But it's never interesting. Most of the time the characters move between places, stay there for five minutes until it gets overrun by zombies, have a long copy-paste shootout and then flee to the next place. Boring. Snore.
Basicly, this film is all the things that George A. Romero never wanted with his own films. Remember Night 90, and how Tom Savini says on the documentary that he wanted his zombies to be more like real people? Recently deceased. Your neighbour walking in through the door, a bit pale? Well. This film is the exact opposite of how it would have been had Romero or Savini directed it. It's no more a zombie-horror film than Blade is a vampire-horror film. Both films are actionfilms. In Blade, it works. In Day of the Dead, you can only stand so much repetetive zombiegutting.
Add to that, it's inefficently paced and cut. There's a scene towards the end where a character suggests a plan to kill all the zombies in the bunker. A second later, the plan is rigged and ready. The zombies come running down the corridor and the good guys kill them all.
Other ludicrous plot elements include meeting a superzombie near the end, who is much faster and smarter than the rest. Having Bud sacrifice himself to save the humans. Making Bud a vegetarian, actually, is just stupid. Everything with this film sucks, as a matter of fact. There's no redeeming factor. At best it's just boring.
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Originally Posted by MinionZombie
I love the sarcasm.
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