Snyder stated that he was in a very dark place when he made this movie. Indeed he was because this movie is so bad that hurts.
For someone that was responsible to remake Dawn Of The Dead and be praised by George A. Romero himself for doing that, it was kind of natural imagine that Army Of Dead would be entertaining at least.
Instead it's a movie full of bad choices. Story is awful, the number of characters is huge with no purpose, every single one of them lacks of good development and the movie leads us to nowhere because every single objective presented in the very beginning isn't completed at all, which makes entire movie has no reason at all to exist. The conflicts are dull, mainly between Scott and Kate's father/daughter confusing relationship. Kate, as any other character, is completely forgetable, but what did make her the worst one is the fact that she's not just useless, but an element that leads entire story to its dead end. Not even the true reason for her to be there was achieved at all because writers did forget to conclude it (Geeta, where are you?). Pointless.
The dialogs are misplaced all the time with a writing that tries really hard to bring comic relief as an old trick to fill gaps when consistence lacks. Or bring long melodramatic moments with background music to make story longer than it could be. The world is falling apart, but they have plenty of time to discuss issues that we don't care at all while a generator must be turned on so a guy can open the safest safe on the planet using only his hearing powers.
Now is the time for those ones that should be the most important characters of entire movie: the zombies.
The only thing I must say about them is that I cringed myself all the time they appeared. The idea of making them a population of an intelingent kind that can communicate, have leaders and... babies (!!!). There's nothing I can think that can be worse than that. Romero did that once with Land Of The Dead, but the mess Snyder and his writers do here is far away from the acceptable.
Snyder never was part of my favorite directors and I persistently watch his movies hoping for the best, but I'm always disappointed.
For someone that was responsible to remake Dawn Of The Dead and be praised by George A. Romero himself for doing that, it was kind of natural imagine that Army Of Dead would be entertaining at least.
Instead it's a movie full of bad choices. Story is awful, the number of characters is huge with no purpose, every single one of them lacks of good development and the movie leads us to nowhere because every single objective presented in the very beginning isn't completed at all, which makes entire movie has no reason at all to exist. The conflicts are dull, mainly between Scott and Kate's father/daughter confusing relationship. Kate, as any other character, is completely forgetable, but what did make her the worst one is the fact that she's not just useless, but an element that leads entire story to its dead end. Not even the true reason for her to be there was achieved at all because writers did forget to conclude it (Geeta, where are you?). Pointless.
The dialogs are misplaced all the time with a writing that tries really hard to bring comic relief as an old trick to fill gaps when consistence lacks. Or bring long melodramatic moments with background music to make story longer than it could be. The world is falling apart, but they have plenty of time to discuss issues that we don't care at all while a generator must be turned on so a guy can open the safest safe on the planet using only his hearing powers.
Now is the time for those ones that should be the most important characters of entire movie: the zombies.
The only thing I must say about them is that I cringed myself all the time they appeared. The idea of making them a population of an intelingent kind that can communicate, have leaders and... babies (!!!). There's nothing I can think that can be worse than that. Romero did that once with Land Of The Dead, but the mess Snyder and his writers do here is far away from the acceptable.
Snyder never was part of my favorite directors and I persistently watch his movies hoping for the best, but I'm always disappointed.