Well made, original take on the zombie world.

Rating: 8/10 (2 June 2013)

Movie review:What an entertaining flick this was. I often don't start by saying this, but you should definitely see this movie. The story is about R (Nicholas Hoult) who is a zombie that is just plain sick of his mundane existence. Yes, you did read that right, the central character is a zombie. The zombie apocalypse has already occurred and the zombies quarantined outside of a walled in city just go about business as usual, wander around, groan, walk into things, the usual zombie like stuff. But R is different, he is lonely, bored and looking for companionship. The closest he has is a fellow zombie, M ( Rob Corddry).This of course is difficult because, well, he is a zombie. The audience is privy to what R is thinking which leads to some very amusing scenes from the very start. Well, like zombies often do, they get hungry, and need to travel to find food since they have already eaten everyone local to their area. When they set out for a search for humans, they run across a team from the city (that is run by the one and only John Malkovich) that is searching for pharmaceuticals. Well, in the zombie like feast, we learn that when a zombie eats a brain, he absorbs the victims memories, sort of like a daydream, and during the melee R attacks and eats the brain of our heroines boyfriend. Julie (Teresa Palmer), the aforementioned heroine, is saved by R and takes her back to where the zombies "live" In this time, R slowly develops a small vocabulary to try and communicate but of course, she is still at first terrified of him. But this is a romantic movie and the two begin to develop a strange sort of symbiotic relationship, hers is need to survive, his is desire. Now this is basically the meat of the movie, but there hasn't been an antagonist yet. Enter the bonies, zombies that are far to gone and have no feeling but hunger, so we can call them the really bad zombies, not the regular zombies. When the bonies realize that not only is a human (food) hanging around the zombies, but the zombies are slowly regaining more human like traits. So, like bad guys do, they go after R and Julie. By this point, R and Julie are "friends" and decide to warn the people of the city of the impending attack from the bonies and zombies alike (the ones that haven't started feeling). This movie plays out just so incredibly well, you may find yourself forgetting this is a zombie flick. Yet don't expect blood and gore, it is virtually non-existent. What does exist is an extremely original and well made movie that finds a way to excel where typical romantic movies fail, that is by making you believe in the characters so much, even under the ridiculous premise that it has and if you can look past that, you will absolutely adore this movie. Fine performances are turned in by Hoult and Palmer to make you really sympathize with the world they are stuck in. An excellent movie all around from slow moving amusement to a nice finale that will make you smile. 7.6/10 IMDb 7.1 My only gripe, I know they needed to use cgi, but it was pretty bad. I know, low budget. Very small gripe though. Thanks Bec for viewing this with me, it was nice to have someone in chat to laugh with, even if it was just typing LOL to halfway across the planet. Not very easy to watch a movie with someone when they are 15 hours ahead of ya. Timing is a b*tch.