Among the top 5 best Zombie Movies ever made!!!

Rating: 10/10 (13 October 2011)

I watched this movie back to back with Original Dawn of the dead. I never watched either of them before & watched them based on IMDb reviews. After watching both of them together, Original sort of disappointed me whereas Remake was complete kick a**.
Sure, new one has its faults & goofs but in totality it is much better cinematic experience. Fast zombies are genuinely scary & movie is chilling. Many fans of old have issues with the fact that new movies totally crapped on old one's concept by making living dead run because dead will be made of stiff muscles so fast running is out of question. George Romero showed his disdain as well. I think George Romero is just jealous because his concept has been improved & made genuinely scary & not only that we actually get to have a brief idea that it might be some kind of virus (as per opening sequence) which might have mutated humans into some kind of undead nightmare & that virus passes through bites. This is unlike George Romero's vision where no explanation was given just a BS line that when there is no place in hell dead will walk the earth. WTF! Not giving explanation works in some movies like in Ringu but not in this genre. At least, we deserve a partial explanation which was given in this movie.
IMO, acting was also vastly superior & so was pretty much everything from cinematography to music to overall story to chilling thrill, horror & suspense. I also do not agree with George Romero's take that movie didn't have any soul or in depth characterization. It had much more story & characterization than George Romero's movies. Since, I am not an American, I never understood so called social commentary in his movies. What exactly is his social commentary that American people are so dumb that they can't counter a threat of slow moving zombie because they are too greedy & have petty self interests. Note to Mr. Romero, next time when you make movies, consider this .. military in any country is more than a match for any slow moving zombie/zombies & most likely threat will be neutralized before it spreads so far & add to the fact that an average American carries weapon this threat would be neutralized even faster. However, when we factor fast moving zombies with more sentient behaviour, it is altogether a different ball game. There is a chance that humanity may lose war as infection may spread overnight. And this why I like this movie. The concept is scary & ending is too as after all this trial & error, more than likely the cast would have been devoured in the end as they came to an island full of zombies.
I know there will be a lot of people who will probably disagree with me but watch it with open mind with the points I just made & I am sure you will love this movie especially if you like your horror movie to be really scary.
Totally recommended.