Looks great in Imax

Rating: 7/10 (31 December 2007)

I saw this movie last night in Imax and I was very scared. Zombie movies always scare me but I was told that this movie was more sad than scary. There were sad moments, but there were a lot more scary moments. I felt that it was a lot like 28 Day Later. Why do zombies only come out at night in any zombie movie? Wouldn't it be scarier if zombies had no schedule? The twisted humans in Cormac McCartney's "The Road" were scarier to me because they were regular human beings gone bad. They thought, they planned, they could travel day or night.
*spoiler* I can't stop thinking about how that woman and her son got to Manhattan if the island was cut off from the rest of the state. I wonder if I missed something. This also leads me to wonder how they got off of Manhattan when they drove away in the end. I can imagine that they drove to NY and rowed a boat to Manhattan. And at the end they drove to the water and took another boat off of Manhattan back to their car. I think it should have some how been mentioned or implied.
Also, why did the virus infect dogs, humans and rats but not lions, antelope, cats, birds and squirrels? Why were the zombies only after humans? *end spoiler*
Over all I would simply say that as zombie movies go, this one was just as suspenseful as the rest. Seeing the city all overgrown and empty was eerie.