Misleading title but still a good horror movie.

Rating: 4/10 (1 April 2005)

When I came across this title I said to myself OK, Romero's Dawn Of The Dead is one of the best horror movies ever, why did someone felt the need to film a remake of it? Then I saw the preview and understood one thing, it was a different movie. The only things the two have in common is that people are hiding in a mall and there are flesh eating undead creatures.
Notice I don't, and can't, use the word zombie because it's a known fact that zombies are slow creatures. Zombies who can run DON'T EXIST.
This being clarified, and the initial deception being left aside. DOTD2K4 is a good horror movie, in the sense that there is no comforting mood. At no point, past the helicopter scene, one can think of of an happy ending. And that's just perfect.
The good surprises come from the Director's cut DVD extras, On the news bulletin, we get to see a cleaning team in Monroeville PA, for those who didn't know, the original Dawn of the dead was shot in the Monroeville mall. There is also Ken Foree and Scott Reiniger from the original movie playing small roles. Ken as a televangelist repeats the same tag-line he gave us in the first movie : "When there's no more room in hell..." I give this movie a 4 not because it's that bad, but zombies don't run and I won't allow a director to play god with Satan's creatures.