Fantastic

Rating: Null/10 (20 March 2004)

Just seen Dawn at a preview screening. (Not out proper for another week in the UK.) Goes to show you shouldn't believe everything you read on discussion boards - It is fantastic.
This is the film Romero would love to have made if he ever had a decent budget. No it doesn't have his social commentary. No it isn't making any deep statements about consumerism. Yes the zombies run. But it works - it's scary, it's brutal, and you believe it. It portrays the end of the world convincingly. To not like this film is to not like zombie movies, and horror in general.
Having said all that, all the usual cliches are present and correct - people acting like suicidal idiots wandering off alone, unsympathetic characters thrown in just to get eaten, etc but on the whole it doesn't hit many bum notes.
If anyone tells you zombies shouldn't run, and they're more scary when they're slow, I would suggest they haven't seen this yet. These monsters are the business.
And the gore! You name it it's in there. It's a cannibal/zombie/gut-crunching/head blowing off fest. Fan-f*cking-tastic!!!