Dawn of the Dead

Rating: 6/10 (31 January 2007)

I saw the original 1978 George A. Romero classic, and I knew that this remake was never going to beat it. It stuck to pretty much the same story as the original, where the characters go into a shopping mall and live as long as they can away from the flesh eating zombies, or living dead, and also, someone reuses the great tagline, "When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth. What really grips you besides the sight of faster, pretty much more sophisticated zombies and gory effects, is the characters. These include nurse Ana (Sarah Polley), (my favourite) cop Kenneth (Pulp Fiction's great Ving Rhames), Michael (Medium's Jake Weber), Andre (Mekhi Phifer), Steve (Ty Burrell), CJ (Michael Kelly), Terry (Kevin Zegers), Bart (Michael Barry), Nicole (Lindy Booth), Norma (Jayne Eastwood) and mall neighbour Tucker (Boyd Banks). Moments of this were good, including a pregnant woman who dies, becomes a zombie, and then just after she dies the baby is born, also a zombie. Good!