Unconvincing Ana.

Rating: 5/10 (22 September 2007)

The main character Ana, played by Sarah Polley was just unconvincing. She serves as the moral one of the group, a know-it-all about the Zombie plague, unless the other characters were as brain-dead as the Zombies howling for the flesh, i could not see how this group could have thought up the idea of the mall. I'd have a rough guess that she would have figured the head shot out if had not been for television. Don't think I'm sexist but i cannot believe that a woman, who is a nurse at a hospital, survived to the point that she got to the mall. *Spoiler* When her group goes into the mall and are attacked by the first Zombie, not only did she pick up the fallen shotgun and wound the zombie despite the fact that there was another guy there with a gun, but she didn't give the shotgun back to the trained professional who had a shallow cut on his wrist, not a accuracy dampening wound. This era of female hero's can be believable if played by good characters, if Jennifer Garner played this role, not only would it have worked it would have been a bigger hit. Throughout the siege Ana single-handedly figures out that the bites transfer the infection and guilts and manipulates Michael. Overall, Ana's character was just unconvincing.
I must add that getting a head shot is extremely hard unless you are a professional, and honestly the only looking professional there was Kenneth, and Andy (but he owns a gun shop, he has training). I noticed that most shots in the movie hit their marks making this group better then an average Army fire team, despite being a Security guard, a nurse, a thief, a truck driver, a Jackass (Steve), his girlfriend?, etc.