Great fun

Rating: 8/10 (30 March 2004)

This is not a scary movie - it is a Zombie movie and it does it well. The cast performed their roles well - nothing oscar worthy of course but perfect performances for the film.
There are several comedy moments (intentional) and these make a welcome break in the tension of the film.
Everything kicks off fairly quickly - no pointless hour long examination of how origin of the Zombies (I imagine this is covered in the previous incarnation - although it is a while since i have seen the remake of The Night Of The Living Dead). I am a fan of the original trilogy and I still enjoyed this sequel - the gore is more believable as you would expect in an update (blood is slightly less fluorescent than in the original) the shocks are there, the updated Zombies are excellent - they are fast and dangerous - a big problem i had with the original was that the "Shuffling Zombies" required you to be very very very careless to be caught by them - not these new ones, they will chase you down and tear you apart given half the chance.
More could have been made of them being holed up in the Shopping Mall, like in the original, you never felt they were in any serious threat inside the Mall from the Zombies - although this was adequately replaced by a fear of each other.
Stay all the way to the end credits as more action occurs during these - I liked this way of ending - it would have been a "Too many endings" syndrome if they had tried to put this in as a traditional end of the film but making it interspersed during the credits was a nice touch.
See this film if you are not upset by gore, not expecting a frame-by-frame remake of the original (why would anybody bother to do this - Take Note producers of the Psycho remake), or expecting a reworking of a literary classic - this movie does not try to be any of these things and lets you enjoy it for it's own merits
8/10