So much better than expected ***********Spoilers**********

Rating: 10/10 (19 February 2005)

***********Spoilers Within********** When I first hear they were remaking Dawn Of The Dead, I imagined it would turn out much like any number of movies that should have never been remade. I swore up and down never to see it, and when it actually got better than average reviews, and was #1 at the box office for a few weeks, I simply thought "well, there must not be anything else better playing".
Usually when I watch a crappy movie, I turn to someone in the room and say "wow, I could have made a better movie than that" (yeah, I'm THAT guy). However, after a friend of mine brought Dawn Of The Dead over, I said "If I was going to make this movie, that's exactly how I would have done it".
The remake of DOTD is probably one of the best horror movies I have seen. It has enough blood and guts to satisfy the gore freaks, but not too much to offend the casual viewer. I also really liked the (intentional) humor throughout the film. What really surprised me is that unlike most horror movies, you really get to know and care about the characters (most of them at least). You cheer when some of them die and frown when others stay alive.
In most movies, the characters are quite two dimensional, and you can generally pick out from the first five minutes which ones will live and which ones will die. With this movie, villains become heroes and heroes become villains. I wanted so badly for the character of CJ to die, but by the end of the movie, I was sad to see him go.
All in all, this was a wonderful remake, and I hope remakes of other movies are just as good as this one.