Close, but no cigar

Rating: 5/10 (11 December 2009)

I had high expectations for this film given it's extraordinarily high ranking on IMDb for its genre. Slick horror/zombie usually rates significantly lower mainly because it's not a crowd pleaser and secondly doesn't have the budget to pump the ratings.
That's said, the production values of this film are high. Opening titles are splendid. The character introduction is amusing but then about 30 minutes in - the film loses its way and gets bogged down in a feeble teenage-never-been-kissed-virgin-guy vs bad-girl-with-a-shotgun sub-plot. Zombies are nowhere to be seen and it feels like a bunch of sitcom writers were hired to script a lot of forced humour. The scenes including Bill Murray's mansion and smashing up the Indian souvenir shop are just fillers. The crescendo in the amusement park is lame and predictable.
If you are a zombie film fanatic - this film is definitely worth a watch. It tries to be original but I just can't but feel that a lot of this film was left on the cutting room floor.