Do yourself a favor a watch the original

Rating: 3/10 (16 January 2006)

This movie was a horrible remake of what in my mind is a classic movie. I have watched the original so many times it's probably unhealthy. Every Halloween I bust it out while I'm carving my pumpkins, sad I know but it gets me into the mood I guess.
I'd have to say that the best portion of the movie was the credits. Not because it meant the movie was over, although that was a good thing, but the zombies you get to see by this point actually looked half decent. As for the rest of the zombies in the movie they look pathetic. Most of them look like they were out of some 'straight to video' piece of crap from the early 80s. And what was with their eyes going metallic looking?!? The biggest problem with this movie, aside from boring stereotypical characters who you can easily predict when they will die, is that the zombies seemed based on the ones in "28 days later". Which really aren't zombies after all. Dawn of the Dead, like the rest of the series, should be about ZOMBIES. So they shouldn't all look like they just woke up from an all night drink fest and be able to run like marathon athletes. They should be lumbering, nasty looking, mindless creatures that are truly dangerous by their sheer number. Not because they can outrun most people up a flight of stairs.
It was a true challenge not to walk away from this one.