A disappointment

Rating: 1/10 (30 January 1999)

I couldn't get into this movie at all. How the character Ash was twisted from the caring and penitent, albbeit reluctant, hero from the first two movies to the egomaniacal waste of flesh in Army Darkness was never really explained. In all seriousness, his love for his girlfriend saved him from becoming a monster, yet somehow, less than a week later, he's having one night stands and acting smug while brushing off his lover?
The film suffers from several such continuity plot-holes which seem to have been torn into the script in order to accommodate one-liners and mindless slapstick. Slapstick in a horror film?
Where is the feel of impending evil from the first movie? Or the humorous subtleties interwoven into the second film? Gone, along with all hopes of the series being continued as the original script intended. One would assume that a horror movie's creators would be shamed to admit that George Romero's original "Night of the Living Dead," and in fact Jim Henson's "The Dark Crystal" are both more frightening and cereberal than their own poorly contrived attempt.