Gutless, senseless & Bloodless

Rating: 2/10 (23 September 2014)

It is a sad state of the world where the biggest budget, highest grossing zombie film of all time wouldn't even meet the standard of shock, awe, gore & plot driven guts of the worst of the Romero films. This film plays it safe in all the wrong ways in order to get its PG-13 rating and thus totally removes the thrill and the reasonable/logical action that should be there. The film could also be dubbed World War Hype since the entire popularity of this film is based on people hyping it up as the "big budget zombie movie you've been waiting for" but ultimately playing to the larger non-zombie loving kid audience. The film's plot is totally fractured, making no sense at time and producing characters which haphazardly run across the screen and are destroyed (bloodlessly as a Disney movie) with no good reason or point. Nothing moves the plot along... because there is no point here but to blindly make money. Terrible, heartless picture which in my book is the worst zombie film ever made... because even as other films are very very bad... none had the audacity to put this much money behind it and be quite so cold and calculated in its execution.