Excellent Movie But Not Dawn Of The Dead

Rating: 7/10 (22 November 2004)

The movie was great,definitely one of the better films in the genre recently.Unfortantly I don't think it should have been called dawn of the dead.First of all the "zombies"had more in common with the infected from 28 days later,in both transmission And mobility,than any resurrected dead traditional or otherwise.I don't see how they can run full speed considering they are reanimated flesh,and dead tissue goes through rigor mortise.As for similarities to the original, it has a mall and a few lines of dialog lifted from the original.but with those gripes out of the way,I must say the movie was great.The story was tight ,if not to deep.The inclusion of a zombie baby birth was something i've wanted to see in a movie ever since reading Brian Keene's novel The Rising.I also thought the character dynamics as they were stripped down to their essence in the struggle for survival to be very interesting.All in all though,I personally think this movie is best viewed by forgetting its a remake of Romero's film,and take it in as it's own creature.Under those circumstances the film is in my opinion a very welcome addition to the undead canon.