A decent movie, but nowhere near as good as the original.

Rating: Null/10 (11 November 2004)

THIS REVIEW MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS. I'm not going to rag on or declaim this film, because I think it's a good enough film for what it tries to be--a gory action film based on Romero's classic.
Beyond the splattering brains, however, there's very little true substance here. At least in Romero's original there was a subtext of social commentary, and a number of important themes (for example, individualism, the way human beings react in times of crisis, the inability of civil and political authorities to cope with disaster). However, the remake does deliver some very solid action and acting, some nice surprises, and a very cool scene involving a fortified shuttle bus.
I didn't like how Snyder ripped off the fast zombies from 28 Days Later (if you think about it, a reanimated corpse probably wouldn't be able to run that fast, so Romero's vision is actually more realistic).
Snyder has offered us, on the whole, a thoroughly postmodern take on Romero's classic--style over substance. While that is sometimes great for a genre that is in danger of becoming totally irrelevant due to overexposure (think of what Tarantino did for American crime films), I think there's still plenty that can be done within the zombie subgenre. Overall, I give this movie a C+/B-.