The Sun's Up Here!!!

Rating: 6/10 (31 March 2004)

This year seems to be the Year of the Horror Movie Remake. Beginning with TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE back in October, and now with DAWN OF THE DEAD, many can only imagine what other concepts are being thought up.
However, if any future remake has the stamina that this remake has, then the horror genre may revive itself. DAWN OF THE DEAD is in no sense a breakthrough movie with an inventive plot. Actually we never learn of the reason zombies exist in the first place (it is a remake of the follow up of NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, where the plot is revealed). But it is the excitement and relentlessness that this film brings about it.
From the fun and intense opening to the finale (which is a little predictable, I should add I have never seen the original all the way through), there is always something going on.
The actors in this film, while several of them have names (particularly Ving Rhames and Mekhi Pheifer), are all decent in the parts they play. They each offer something different to the movie.
The message of consumerism that spawned from the first one is still used here, but not does not remain a main focus.
For having a great sense of style, some intense scenes, and overall fun DAWN OF THE DEAD (2004) rates as a 6/10.