A new dawn for the turbo charged generation

Rating: Null/10 (26 March 2004)

After seeing this film and then the original shortly after it certainly does breath new life into the Zombie genre. Romero had his day with the living dead walking around all docile and and easily fended off (you always wandered how really they could take over the planet). But Romero always allowed you associate them with the human situation, ie. Whos worse the remaining humans or the living dead (this idea even heightened by the excellent Day of the Dead.) The spruced up remake now has zombies that have the physical capabilities of humans such as speed, reflexes and the same flesh eating instincts as before, thus making them generally scarier and more believable should we be faced with an apocolypse of this magnetude. The opening is very effective a mention of a bite and a nurse doing her daily business blissfully unaware of what is going on. The next morning total chaos of a world ripped apart by zombies and the mayhem that ensues. After that they hit the mall. That is where the film becomes run of the mill Hollywood with the same old cliched charaters, helpless females who lose there dad and find solice in a dog. The token black man (Ving Rhames) you know is gonna survive, the feisty female in Sarah Polley and some hick security guards. Just when this film was doing well and and they have to have the usual run of the mill characters and who dies and who doesn't. Oh and please leave to the imagination the ending the uncertainty works wanders you know just as it did in the original. All in all good but a bit more imagination wouldn't go a miss, but did like the chainsaw bit though!