Well done remake inspires revisit of original.

Rating: 8/10 (30 March 2004)

It has been years since I have seen the original, but this remake has inspired me to see it again. Considering the subject matter, the dialogue holds up well under the strain of the fantastic circumstances the characters are experiencing. The pacing is is excellent and the comic tension breakers are superb in parts. The small crowd in the Brooklyn theater was in tune with the irony and for such a small crowd there was lots of laughing out loud.
The most horrifying part of the movie for me was brought home by an accident that occurs between the survivors and isn't attributable to the undead.
The biggest flaw was the uneven editing in the action sequences near the end of the movie (prior to the shots during the credits which one should watch until the end, btw). The action gets choppy and it didn't feel stylistic. There seemed to be some imitation of 28 Days Later style, but the editing to which I refer is more along the lines of our intrepid survivors being in one building and then materiallizing somewhere else. Just seemed too much of a gap to be intentional.
Long story short, go see the movie and suspend that disbelief. You'll have fun.