Different from the original but equally as good

Rating: Null/10 (23 March 2004)

**********MAY CONTAIN SOME SPOILERS******* This version though it has the same basic concept as the original, a group of survivors of the zombie plauge are stranded in a mall, while a horde ( and in this one there's a few thousand flesheaters outside) of the living undead wait to snack outside of the mall. Great performances from Sarah Polley,Vingh Ramses,Mekhi Phifer,Jake Weber and Kevin Zegers. My only complaints are: 1) Even though there were some great suspense elements in this film there was no flesh eating scenes as their are in most zombie films. What's up with that?2)ANd at the end of the film where there getting off of the boat onto the island and find a rush of zombies coming after them does the turning over of the video camera mean their all being eaten at that moment? And this did pay homage to the original film in many ways that diehard DOTD fans will notice, but is in many ways more like the more recent zombie films such as Resident Evil and 28 Days Later in the zombies run after their prey and that their more intersted in infecting you with their virus then eating you whole which is what most true zombie ( AND I HATE TO SAY IT) but true Romero films are about. This is a great movie in it's own right but totally different in many ways than the original. But equally as good. Lots of great gore scenes especially the fat lady zombie who's been bit on the arm and turns and then Sarah Polleys's character has to skewer her through the eye and into the brain. The lady dying and then having the zombie baby was especially creepy and the accidental chainsawing of two of our survivors in the get-away bus was most classic and intense. Also the changing of only the infected dead rising and not all the dead changes the story a bit as well but all in all this film will be a classic for it's time.If you haven't seen the original first though do watch it first and this one second. ***** out *****