A disappointment

Rating: 3/10 (3 January 2010)

If you like intelligent zombie movies, with a plot development and some sense of character progression, then I suggest you skip this one.
If, on the other hand, you are just looking for a video game style shoot'em up movie, then you may like this one: A completely unscary, splatstick style, violent-pornographic flick... which as far as i understand has many followers (Which is something I don't understand.)
The very interesting scenario that is presented in the well done beginning loses strength after the first 10 minutes. Very soon, the movie becomes more and more senseless until it reaches a point where you understand why the whole thing became so uninteresting: It is made for zombies.
There are no questions, no thoughts, no character development, no tension, no suspense. The only thing to see is just a lot of shooting, trashing and killing, filmed in a very cool way, and taken to a higher level with loads of bad-ass rock & roll, big trucks and cool names... The whole thing feels just so childish.
It is a shame that the director decided to approach the film as a game. It is a zombie movie where zombies are completely meaningless, not even threatening. They are nothing but targets, the perfect excuse to display all brutality, violence and sadism as possible.
So, what can I say? Probably some people will like it but this was the complete opposite of the kind of zombie movies I like (28 days later, dawn of the dead, diary of the dead,...). It feels more like the marketing campaign for a "zombieland" video game where you ll get to chose a character to shoot you way through the different movie scenarios. Nothing else.
Truly, a disappointment.
Matías Vega