Very well done, but one problem............

Rating: 8/10 (15 October 2005)

Zombies can't run. It took the scariness out of the whole movie. The movie, overall was excellent, but the running zombies distracted me from the real scary parts.
I believe that George A Romero (pretty much creator of the zombie genre) would agree with me, the running zombies were a put-down. The reason zombies can't run is because their brain reacts too slowly. Yes, they may be able to run, I mean with healthy joints and muscles, but they don't because it's just something they don't do.
The redeeming qualities of this movie were:(spoilers!!! be warned!!!) Great cinematic value. The zombie baby (which I predicted in the first 20 min. of the movie). The ending. The ending was very well done. I loved it. I liked how James Gunn, the writer, had the surviving characters go on a boat (which is mentioned in the original movie, the part with the cops, you know the one) and then the characters get killed. Perfect for this movie.
Oh, almost forgot, the whole underlying concept of the original movie was forgotten. Yeah, the story is pretty much the same, but they forgot the moral to the story. If you have ever seen the original, you know what I mean.