Finally! A zombie movie that is clever, interesting, and funny.

Rating: Null/10 (20 July 2013)

I came across the DVD of this movie from my public library, and coincidentally my wife was reading the novel on her Kindle E-reader. After we watched the movie, I looked at the extras on the DVD. The main producer who pushed to make the book into the movie, getting financing and a writer/director also read it first on her Kindle. Welcome to the electronic age!
This is not your usual zombie movie, being told from the zombies' perspective. As it starts out, an infection has spread and now the last band of "normal" people live in a city with a high, guarded wall. But Brit Nicholas Hoult as R (as a zombie, he can't remember his name, only that it started with the letter 'R') seems a bit different. At a short battle in a lab, R is angered when he is shot at, so he grabs the guy and eats his brain. Eating a person's brain has the effect of the zombie sharing all that person's memories, so he realizes that the blonde in the lab is the dead man's girlfriend.
Aussie Teresa Palmer is that blond, Julie , who is terrified, but R manages to mumble out that he will see that she is kept safe. And he leads her out of there, to his own place of residence, an old abandoned jet liner on the tarmac of an abandoned airport. Gradually she learns to trust him.
In the meantime, as R is losing some of his zombie qualities, it is also rubbing off on some of the other zombies, particularly his friend, fellow zombie Rob Corddry as M .
(Side note, there is a strong 'Romeo and Juliet' element in parts of the story, and in a key scene Julia is on a balcony looking down at R. It can be presumed Julia and R represent Juliet and Romeo, while R's friend M represents Romeo's friend Murcutio, and so on.)
The other key character is John Malkovich as Grigio, Julie's dad who seems to be in charge of protecting the walled-in city.
This is an excellent movie, the writing is very clever, and we laughed often. The acting is also superb, especially Hoult playing the zombie 'R' as he gradually goes from grunting to saying a word or two, to eventually speaking, as he became more human. A very entertaining movie.