most overrated movie I've seen in years

Rating: 3/10 (14 August 2004)

I'm usually not far away with my personal grade from the IMDb rankings, but this time I must object. This movie got everything wrong that I could possibly imagine except camera work and special effects, including plenty of gore like you should expect.
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The characters are a bunch of every type in the book. You got the black cop leading the pack with matching lines. You got a jerk who introduces himself as one and stays one till he dies as a zombie (with a smile on the heroine's face, of course) and a more ruthless jerk (being an armed security guy) who does a complete character flip-flop for no obvious reason - if you don't count the fascination about the sudden topic of the hour: TRUST You got a romance without a chance (another twist you can see coming from a mile away) between a nurse-turned-heroine and a TV-salesman keeping the cool head among them and a baby being born from a zombie in a situation that's both stupid and a rip-off from several movies at once.
Most of the scares - or non-scares - are obvious. This could vary if you didn't watch many horror movies. The movie takes away the scare-factor by mocking various other flicks and itself. But this is not supposed to be a parody, is it? You can even guess quite a few dialog lines, mostly involving CJ who is nice as soon as he notices that there's another one who can play the I'm-a-dick part, therefore he creates comic relief instead. This movie is more action than horror, after all. The last part turns into a shoot-out and barbecue. By now nothing could scare you, anyway. The chainsaw reduces the survivors to our chosen few. The ending is surprising, as usual.
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It's a bad movie that just looks good. It started well and got worse from there. I liked the idea with the other guy on the roof of the gun shop. In these moments the movie was actually funny without being silly and delivering cheap laughs through predictable dialog. I rate it 3/10, just because I've never done this before.