meh.....

Rating: 7/10 (19 May 2007)

I've seen better.....but I've also seen A lot worse. I love the concept behind the films - that its a virus and not some sort of weird radiation or something (please no hatemail from Romero fans, as I greatly enjoy NotLD and his other zombie films). For a summer film, in which we seem to expect SO MUCH, the sort of...almost minimalist feel to these 28... movies is refreshing. However...something about the movie as a whole just sort of fell flat for me. Maybe its because its a sequel and its sort of ingrained into my mind that sequels RARELY EVER live up to the originals or what it is but...I just liked the first film better. There were almost Blair-Witch-like scenes where the camera was jostled about and everything was shaky and I just wasn't into that at all. It was almost nauseating. Still, it had its good points. The opening sequence of the film in the farm house with Robert Carlyle and Catherine McCormack and the other survivors is quite tense and very enjoyable. I give it a solid 7.