A Fresh Idea for the Zombie Genre.

Rating: 7/10 (17 March 2013)

I don't think there is a lot of Zombies movies out there that tackles the idea of a corpse reanimation back into human. John Levine's movie does. Plus, it's rare to see a movie told from a zombie's perspective and showing human characteristics in the living corpses. The movie also gives a reason why the zombies eat the brain, because it's makes them feel alive due to being able to relive their victim's memories. The movie starts out, after a zombie apocalypse, R (Nicolas Hoult) live at the airport wishes to be more than a zombie, and feel alive again. It wasn't until he met Julie Grigio (Teresa Palmer), a human survivor looking for medical supplies. Rather than eating her, he felt something for her. Now, R must try to keep Julie alive from his zombie friends lead by M (Rob Corddry) and the really undead 'Bonies'. Bonies are the zombies lost the last shreds of their humanity and gave up becoming nonstop killing machines. The more we spent with Julie, the more he turning back into human. The movie is based on the novel by Isaac Marion and very similar to it. The acting is pretty good, but it's not like they were doing Shakespeare. Cross that, it was Shakespeare in a way. There is a few connections to Warm Bodies and that of Romeo and Juliet. R might stands for Romeo. M, R's best friend might stands Mercutio. Julie is short for Juliet. Perry (Dave Franco), Julie's ex is the character of Paris, and last Nora (Analeigh Tipton) Julie's friend is The Nurse. Still there is no social prejudices similar to that of Romeo and Juliet in Warm Bodies. The reasons for this is because the zombies were really eating people. Therefore, people had good reason to fear them. One thing this movie isn't like is Twilight, but it was made to cash in of that fad. There is no love triangle or zombies taking their shirts off, or a whiny teenage girl that just wants a zombie boyfriend to do everything for her. I don't mind feminizing the zombie lore, as long as the story is good. I think the movie works. Nicolas Hoult's acting reminds me of Edward Scissorhand's Johnny Depp with the soft talking, and in some cases, Leonardo DiCaprio dying in the water in Titanic. This is one of the very few roles, Rob Corddry isn't annoying. I didn't like how Teresa Palmer looks like the blonde Kristin Stewart. They were really trying to get the Twilight fans with this. I would give props to John Malkovich, but he's barely in the movie. I like the movie's allegory theme on how technology disconnects us and how we need to feel connect again. I like the Easter Egg of a zombie that looks like Rick Grimes from Walking Dead in the tarmac scene. I was kinda disappointed by the make up in the film. The zombies rarely look like zombies. I didn't think of R as a zombie, but more like a handsome Goth guy. The Bonies were made by awful CGI that makes it looks like leftover Imps design from the movie Doom or the Mummy. I think it was the same CGI from the Mummy (1999). Just watch both of them and you sees the similar design. For a zombie movie, there isn't that much violence in the film. I don't know if it's hurts the film, or not. I like how the zombies were not made out to be brainless, we really made to care for them if they do get killed. Still, I don't like watching movie that deals with falling in love with the dead. While they didn't have sex, it felt a bit necrophilia. It will still gross me out. I have to say that the movie was pretty good, and I enjoy it. Give it a watch if you're looking something new in a zombie movie.