Brilliant re-imagining!

Rating: 10/10 (12 October 2008)

A mysterious virus is bringing the dead back to life as vicious re-animated corpses that go fast and feed upon the living. One morning, a nurse (Sarah Polly) escapes from her house after her husband was turned into a zombie as she escapes on the road only to be later crashed without being killed. She teams up with a reluctant police officer (Ving Rhames) whom helps her up and joins with other human survivors (Mekhi Pfeifer, Ty Burrell, Lindy Booth, Jake Weber, Michael Kelly, and Kevin Zegers) as they seek shelter in a large shopping mall. Unfortunately there is a few monsters inside that can be eliminated by a bullet to the skull, as now the living must try to survive as they battle out with the killer dead and try to find a way to escape.
When i first heard back in late 2003 when George A. Romero's masterpiece "Dawn of the Dead" from 1979 was going to be remade, i was really upset. I mean why mess with something that wasn't even broke in the first place? sheesh, then when i saw the trailer to it, i thought it might not be so bad. Afterall the original 1979 version is one of my favorite movies of all time, i did went to see this version in the theater and was pleasantly surprised of how well this was well made. This is a spectacular update of George A. Romero's classic and worked just like the 1990 remake to "Night of the Living Dead" , this movie offers great performances by the cast and marks the debut of visionary Zack Sydner who gave us "300" and the upcoming "Watchmen". this movie is loaded with action and over the top gore like exploding heads, implements and of course the zombies here are fast like in the tradition of "Return of the Living Dead", "Nightmare City", "Lifeforce" or "The Stuff". Although it misses out on the excellent social satire that made the original the classic it was, but this is a brilliant and fun re-imagining that is a solid winner.