Best re-make of all time! (spoiler alert)

Rating: Null/10 (31 May 2004)

This movie is the best re-make of all time!!! I have seen this movie in the theaters 3 times and it gets better everytime. I read a review somewhere, as i'm sure some of you have too, that there are more characters introduced with no depth and you end up not caring about them. This is completely untrue, the characters have more depth and uniqueness than the original and i loved the original as well. The effects in this one are first rate and the action is awesome. The fights are loud and the explosions are even louder, the audience is in awe during the entire movie...I certainly was. The emotion received from the actors, such as Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, and Jake Weber is extraordinary. You can feel their sadness, and their fear of what lies ahead. I was saddened in a part of the movie when the are all in the mall sitting around a huge dinner table with a smorgasbord of food, and someone asks Michael (Jake Weber) what he was best at. He responds, " I know what I was best at, I was best at being a dad." It was moving, really. The ending was so un-Hollywood too, they finally battle their way through a city full of zombies and reach the marina, they're at the boat...the survivors at least (Michael, Anna, Kenneth, Terry, and Terry's girlfriend). They all step on to the boat except for Michael who is untying it from the dock and they he pushes it away and Kenneth says hop on and he says, " I can't" and shows his arm has a bite mark on it from a previous fight. And throughout the movie he and Anna began to form a relationship of sorts, she starts crying and says "i can help you michael, come with us" and he says no its OK i think i'll stay here and watch the sun rise one last time. They are forced to take off and leave him there as the camera fades out on the boat sailing through the lake, you hear a gunshot from the dock. I was p***ed but the movie was excellent, everyone should see this movie once before they die! I hope someday they come out with an even more gore-splattered, unrated DVD. Definitely go check this one out.