Did you know that dead is a synonym for boring?
I do love me some zombies and had high hopes for this one like everyone, but they began evaporating with the Zombieland clone opening credits and deflated further with every cringe-worthy cover of a classic rock song and apparition of a woefully miscast actor (et tu, Notaro?), until after wincing and waiting for the movie to start gaining steam, it instead rolled itself backwards off a cliff into a flaming lake of stupid.
I don't expect much from a Zack Snyder movie other than breathtaking visuals, which is fine. Sucker Punch and Justice League et al delivered the goods but there were no money shots here, just some goofy CGI and ho-hum action sequences, all dimly lit and shot with a zoom lens, cramping the scenes and blurring out the background, i.e. The zombie horde (the money shots).
It's hard to believe this is the same director who did the great 2004 Dawn of the Dead remake. If only James Gunn had done the script for this one too! The writing is the real nail in the coffin here, with a plot so implausible that even an 8 year old would want to poke holes in it.
The only thing truly dead here is any hope for the upcoming franchise, and also my behind from sitting through this 2 1/2 bore.
I do love me some zombies and had high hopes for this one like everyone, but they began evaporating with the Zombieland clone opening credits and deflated further with every cringe-worthy cover of a classic rock song and apparition of a woefully miscast actor (et tu, Notaro?), until after wincing and waiting for the movie to start gaining steam, it instead rolled itself backwards off a cliff into a flaming lake of stupid.
I don't expect much from a Zack Snyder movie other than breathtaking visuals, which is fine. Sucker Punch and Justice League et al delivered the goods but there were no money shots here, just some goofy CGI and ho-hum action sequences, all dimly lit and shot with a zoom lens, cramping the scenes and blurring out the background, i.e. The zombie horde (the money shots).
It's hard to believe this is the same director who did the great 2004 Dawn of the Dead remake. If only James Gunn had done the script for this one too! The writing is the real nail in the coffin here, with a plot so implausible that even an 8 year old would want to poke holes in it.
The only thing truly dead here is any hope for the upcoming franchise, and also my behind from sitting through this 2 1/2 bore.