Despair

Rating: 6/10 (22 December 2007)

After reading many of the other reviews, it seems that the majority of viewers feel the same way, and I have to agree. The build up of the movie is fantastic, the film paints a beautiful picture of loneliness and despair while giving an excellent glimpse of a man desperately trying to maintain his humanity. Then it flops.
The monsters are comical. With the flood of zombie movies as of late you can tell the director wanted something new and original, and what came out was a cross between the lying figures of silent hill and the mummy, giant vibrating jowls and all. They can leap through the air, scale buildings, and perform ridiculous aerobatic maneuvers. It's cartoonist and converts what was a chilling and somber film into a laugh fest.
Smith makes a quote that all human characteristics are gone, yet one of the zombies show leadership, intelligence, and problem solving abilities, only made worse by one creatures unexplained vendetta against Smith.
A directors cut could still save this movie, and to give them the benefit of the doubt I will assume all the much needed back story and character development was cut for running time and to clear the pg13 rating. But that's just pipe dreams The first half of the movie scores a 9 and the second a 3 which explains the 6.