it grows on you

Rating: 4/10 (27 July 2005)

Being a fan of the original Dawn, I have to admit that when I saw this movie, it wasn't that bad. After seeing the Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake, I knew remakes these days suck big time and here it was no different. Than again, what can you expect from a guy who along his major screen credits is Scooby Doo. When the movie starts, the plague is already starting, but only the next morning we get to see the bubble burst and have the zombies attack every living human being. As a fan of zombie movies, I was disappointed with the low level of gore here, although hinting at it is fine. But this is a zombie movie, and in it we need to see more gore than there we could see. After the first 15 minutes, the movie starts to weaken. What they have build up in the first 15 minutes, they lose afterwords. The characters were believable, but the zombies aren't. If you think how long it takes for rigor mortis to kick in, how come after 2 weeks, these zombies could still run like in the beginning. It made no sense. Of course zombie movies usually don't make sense, but there is still a kind of rationality to it, that we don't see here. I might add that the first 15 minutes of the movie had me shaken in my boots sorth of speak, but the rest of the movie didn't until they leave the mall. Hell, the news program we can view on the DVD of this film is scarier than the entire movie combined and it only lasts about 20 minutes. Judge it yourself as you watch the movie.