Good action movie, with Zombies

Rating: 7/10 (29 August 2004)

When I first heard the 1978 horror classic dawn of the dead would be remade, i felt pretty skeptical, knowing todays horror movie makers tendancies to neglect story and atmosphere in favour of cheap scares(monster jumps out and yells BOO!) and over the top computer generated effects.
My first qualm when seeing this movie was 'running zombies', I felt this displayed a level of dexterity which shows them less like creepy 'living dead', and more like living people infected with cannibalistic urges, obviously an attempt to keep in touch with peoples new idea of zombies as seen in 28 days later, and though this leaves less room for tension it does allow for some exciting scenes and some visceral action, the characters arern't too imaginative, most of them we know nothing about(eccept that they will die),and the movies attempts at humor often fall flat because they are dropped in with little subtlety.
On the plus side this movie really does look good, the make up and effects are convincing and the story has enough new material to keep you on you interested, though this isn't the thoughtful journey of survival or suspenseful horror that was the original, it is a pretty entertaining action movie which wont make you think, but will make you watch and listen.