A Great Remake

Rating: 9/10 (19 March 2004)

I saw 'Dawn of the Dead' this afternoon and whilst it is not a patch on George Romero's classic, Zack Snyder's film is a rollicking action flick with a brilliant third act and a great cast, though there are way too many characters in it, Sarah Polley, Jake Weber and Ving Rhames were great and the actor who played C.J. was cool too, extra credit goes to the dog Chips for his wonderful and daring mission through the sea of zombies towards the end, that dog ruled. The CGI is a bit ropey and the story moves far too rapidly, the controversial decision to make the zombies fast and athletic works better than in '28 Days Later' but there was not enough gore for me, the cannibalistic element was not played up like in the original. A great effort though, I hope the same director makes a sequel to the film. Zombie's rule and with intelligent scripts and cool action sequences, they could have a whole new era of zombie movies.