I liked it as much as the original.

Rating: 9/10 (21 March 2004)

I did like this movie as much as the original, though for different reasons. This one starts out showing you the outbreak as it first happens and I thought that was very nicely done. Sure "Night of the Living Dead" sort of showed us the initial outbreak, but this one does it in such a fast and furious way. This movie has a few similarities with the original, though not many. Mainly the name and the fact the survivors find refuge in a mall are the main similarities. This is fine by me because I do not want to watch the same movie again. The zombies here are fast, sort of like the zombies in "Return of the Living Dead" or "Nightmare City", but they are still stupid and can be killed with a bullet to the brain. They are also a lot better than the ones in "28 Days Later" though they were not really zombies. They were just people infected with a disease that turned violent and puked blood, while the zombies here do what zombies normally do...eat people. Some humorous moments are scattered throughout, as are a few cameos...Tom Savini and Ken Foree are the two I noticed. Good action and lots of zombies to be seen here. This movie does one of the better jobs of making you believe the zombies are everywhere and the zombies are numerous. All in all good zombie action fun to be had.