Excellent Flick

Rating: 10/10 (4 November 2004)

I was not a fan of the 1978 original beyond one viewing. Maybe there's this great sebtext people talk about, but I never found it and, if it was there, I never found it interesting enough to pay attention.
Dawn of the Dead in 2004 is slicker, faster paced and has a well told story. No, the character development won't rival some of the major epics of our time, but it's a horror movie. People don't watch it for the romance or the emotion. You're watching to be frightened and to be entertained. A little gore doesn't hurt either.
There is enough character development along the way that I did care about what happened to these people. I didn't care about many of them, but I did care. Ving Rhames is a great actor in his own right and Sarah Polley has the potential to be an action heroine as she plays off the ludicrous horror well and sells the action very well.
I highly recommend this movie to a fan of horror, young or old. It does borrow effects ideas from 28 Days Later, but that is forgivable as I believe this is a better movie.