must try harder

Rating: 3/10 (11 June 2010)

This started well, focusing on the characters who survived without showing 20 minutes of the descent into chaos. Woody Harrelson is quite good and clearly enjoying himself, there are a few laughs along the way and it (thankfully) doesn't try to completely ape Shaun of the Dead. However after a promising start it meanders along into a nonsensical ending. America's answer to Shaun of the dead - if this is your answer then you've misunderstood the question folks. Come on, you can do better than this.
However ***SPOILERS*** He is a self-confessed geek who virtually lives in his room, so how would he cope with the big bad scary outside world when it's now populated with flesh-eating zombies, zombies who can run fast ? Rule 1: Fitness - for someone who spends his weekends playing games surrounded by the leaning tower of pizza boxes he's well able to run. This guy is too dumb to remember whether or not he left the car locked, he'd be eaten as an entrée before the fatties or he'd shoot his own foot off.
They go into a shop, kill a few zombies and find two girls out back - how did they survive with no weapons ?
Noise attracts zombies so you drive part-way across America to find a fun fair and then - power it all up - bright lights, noise, what do you thinks gonna happen ???
Humvees get about 3 gallons to the mile, yet you choose THIS to drive ? You're in the US, there are cars everywhere, why choose this POS.
Someone steals your car and abandons you to your fate, you somehow magically find them again (having just found another car with another arsenal of weapons) and they try rob you again. If you were worried about Zombies sneaking into you car surely you could, oh I don't know, lock the doors ?