Unique, but didn't Take my Breath away,

Rating: 6/10 (12 June 2015)

Warm Bodies is a decent movie with a well developed storyline and a good cast. It is a very unique film, set in a completely different universe from our own, zombies may be a very overused device in film and television these days, but in this movies defense, it uses them in a very different way, giving us sympathy for them instead of simply wanting them all dead. I know a lot of people like this movie, but it didn't really win me over, the romance was the strongest part of the story, but I really didn't find Nicholas Hoult and Teresa Palmer believable, they didn't have a lot of chemistry and once Hoult's character became able to speak properly, their unconditional love became even less believable. I felt like it tried too hard to be several different genres, it wanted to be a comedy, with a lot of romance, a fair amount of horror and even a little action, I think it should have stuck with romantic comedy without so many scenes that were meant to be scary and intense, R and Julie's relationship could have been much more effective without these scenes. It's definitely not a brutal film, but Warm Bodies has too many flaws that left me feeling underwhelmed by a movie I thought had a lot of potential, and because of that I couldn't recommend it.
Set during a zombie apocalypse, a girl begins to fall in love with a zombie with human traits, despite her father planning to annihilate them all.
Best Performance: Nicholas Hoult