HAHAHAHA! This is one dumb movie.

Oh and it's the Steve Miner remake I'm talking about, the one with Mena Suvari and Ving Rhames.

The plot has nothing to do with Romero's but somehow they managed to make even sillier plot contrivances than "Miguel cries and gets everyone killed". Long story short: Somehow a virus breaks out in a small mountain town in Colorado. the army quarantines everyone and all hell breaks loose.

The first "WTF!?"-moment comes when one of the soldiers is bitten and Mena Suvari (also a soldier) decides not to kill him but Cuff him and keep him alive for unexplained reasons. Now naturally the other soldiers are flabbergasted by her idiocy and refuse to go along with it, right? Nope. It's dealt with twice in the movie.
The first time Nick Cannon asks Mena why they don't just kill him she replies: "he's a vegetarian" (and thus won't kill them) and the second time, after a crash, she deduces that they shouldn't kill him because "he might turn out to be useful later".

Yes. That's right. Let's keep zombie boy alive because "he might be useful later". What kind of warped screenplay logic is that?

Oh and the zombies in this one are pretty damn smart, which is pretty damn stupid. They fire guns sometimes, drive and for some reason crawl upside down in ceilings Exorcist style. Never mind rational explanation, they're zombies!!

Also pretty much all the blood in this movie is CGI, and bad at that. The characters are cutouts. There's the ambitious evil scientist, the tough chick and the wise-cracking black guy.

but the absolute biggest LOL-moment was when a zombie dodges machine gun fire from five people - MATRIX STYLE! And I mean, they're like 20 feet away. That has got to be the stupidest thing ever. They explain it away by saying he was a "really smart guy" before he turned. Because all smart guys can dodge bullets.


Goes to show making good zombie movies isn't that easy after all.

Is this out yet T.J.? I remember seeing a trailer for it about a year ago, but then it kinda disappeared off the radar.

~Zack~

Saw it on QSS. Might still be there. But yeah I kinda lost all hope for it after I saw the trailer. actually after I saw Steve Miner was directing.

What's QSS? An online site?

~Zack~

quicksilverscreen.com

I don't know T.J.... I kinda liked it. It was something new. The fact that zombies were super in every way(fast, strong, smart)was refreshing. It's not perfect. The last 10 minutes are kinda ridiculous. But any zombie fan looking for something new should definetly check out this action packed gore fest.Just go into it with an open mind and I think you'll enjoy yourself.

~Zack~

I thought it was...okay. I said, "WTF" when I saw one zombie practically teleport onto the ceiling, crawl a few feet, and then teleport back down to the floor to attack a person.

The action was nice and so was the gore (with the bad quality, it's hard to tell what's CGI and what isn't, unless it's REALLY BAD), but that was the only good stuff about it. At least it was better than Night of the Living Dead 3-D.

Sean

I don't think there was anything new in it at all. Smart zombies firing weapons we've seen in Land of the Dead (which btw sucked), fast and strong zombies in 28 days and the Dawn remake. And zombies driving cars? Really?

I really disagree that any zombie fan looking for something new should check this out. This was so run of the mill in my mind, so much like any other bad zombie movie that unless you're a down-right zombie fetichist, who is willing to overlook things like plot, characters, (real) gore, acting, editing, direction and the complete absence of logic, you won't find much to like here. Considering the budget was $18 million, which is 3 million more than 28 Days Later, this looks incredibly cheap.

And when 90% of the deaths were in CGI, what's the point?

No, I'm sorry. This movie pisses me off more and more the more I think about it.

Bring on Army of the Dead.

The version I watched didn't have the best resolution, so I really couldn't tell if cgi was bad. All I know is that I went into it expecting a bad movie... and what I got is a not so bad movie that didn't take itself to seriously. I simply had fun watching it. But, then again, I also have fun watching Micheal Bay movies. I guess it doesn't take much to entertain me....

~Zack~