A bit disappointing, but well done nonetheless.

Rating: Null/10 (21 March 2004)

#spoilers# Remakes are never as good as the original. Why should this be any different? The new Dawn was, and this was no shocker, disappointing.
There were too many characters, and no originality in any of them. In the original Dawn, there are four main characters, and they each have positive and negative recognizable traits. In this new Dawn, believe it or not, I now have trouble even rememberings what happened to who. There were just too many people held up in the mall. I'm not talking like 6. Im talking like 15. The script seemed to be just throwing characters in to have more deaths. The original Dawn had four characters, and only 2 of the 4 (if i remember correctly) survive. In this movie, well nevermind I shouldn't give away the ending. Also, the characters get to the mall way too quickly. The characters didn't stumble upon a landing space like in the original, one of them goes, "We're going to the mall." Then, they're their. Also, some of the sequences of the characters held up in the mall dragged on. However, the original put aside, this movie had some good gory action, awesome looking zombie, and the one thing they seemed to overlook in the original: CHAINSAWS!!! Hopefully the dvd will have some extra deleted gore scenes. Obviously they couldn't top the gore of the original and still maintain an R raiting. Finally, they made a stupid idea by showing the conclusion of the film in bits and pieces during the credits, so only the few people who actually sat through the credits and didn't leave got to see the "official" ending.
So, if you go see this, sit through all the credits! All in all, some points off for making it boring at times, and eliminating stuff from the original. Points on for action, gore, cool zombies, and chainsaw action.
Okay, there were actually some pretty creative ideas. Oh yeah and it wasn't scary either. I give it 6 out of 10. ..