In a post apocalyptic world, a zombie falls in love with a human

Rating: 4/10 (20 September 2014)

Maybe I'm cynical. Maybe I'm just cold. Either way this movie sucked the life out of me.
The movie stars "R", a Zombie (played by Nicholas Hoult) who displays affection for Julie, (played by Teresa Palmer) a human girl whom he captured in a search for food. The more he falls for this girl the more human traits he begins to develop until he himself becomes human.
The concept of the movie itself is actually pretty interesting and kept me engaged just enough to see it to the end. With that being said, only clocking in at about an hour and a half, this was probably one of the LONGEST movies I have ever seen. Every scene could be predicted as soon as the plot reveals itself, and all of the characters portrayed are very 2-dimensional. What may have started as a interesting concept quickly becomes one of your usual "boy meets girl plot-lines" found in all romantic comedies. All characters beside R and Julie are only there to move the plot along and seem to have no lives or motives of their own. And every attempt at a comedic moment does nothing but register a pity laugh, because nearly all of the jokes fell flat.
My biggest complaint about the movie is that Julie, the romantic interest, is the most helpless character in the entire film. Her inability to defend herself or her compliance to do whatever R tells her to do is beyond any rational mind. She was raised to hate zombies, her boyfriend was eaten by zombies, she has to scavenge for food and supplies because of zombies, yet she has the audacity to fall for a zombie after 3 days of capture. My head hurts from just thinking about it...
All in all this movie is nothing but average. It reeks of a reused plot line, 2-dimensional characters, standard movie clichés, and a sub- par script. As I said before the concept could have made this a great movie, but it was executed so poorly that it solely exists for you to give it a chance.