Fast paced

Rating: 9/10 (10 April 2004)

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This film is well paced. My wife likes the original better, but my opinion differs from hers. I, personally, find that over the years, directing, film quality, acting, editing, and special effects have improved. I see this improvement with this film. The film makers made the story different enough from the original, that the view is not watching a repeat. It starts out well, with the nurse and others finding a strange infection, no one knows how it starts, the nurse and husband should have been paying attention to the TV. Morning comes and this is the best part of the film, anarchy happens, like how I believe events would really happen, ie. the van hitting the car. This movie shows how attitudes have changed over the years, with lots of the characters having jerkitist, I find this very realistic, this jerkitist plague we have today is spreading fast like the zombies. This fits into the story, I am surprised no one has picked up on the story's social message. This zombie plague is brought on my humanity as a punishment, the evil that we do. When the minister said when hell is full the dead will walk the earth. This means the Zombies are the damned, humanity was so bad they filled up hell and had no other place to go but with the living. They are suffering on earth, and prey on the living out of rage. That is why they do not care about the dog in the movie. That is why going to an island or under water or anywhere doesn't matter; the damned will just walk across the lake they can't die, just their body does. The film shows how no one cares and causes this effect, except for a few. In the end, humanity was damned this is how I interpret this film. What caused it is for your own mind to make up. 9 out of 10 Mike