sadatx

Oh boy.....I guess I'm the dissenting opion here.

I thought the movie started off with a bang. Great, fast-paced first act. But it just went downhill from there. There would be talking, then they get into a situation where they need to kill some zombies, then some more talking, then some more zomnie killing. The movie just could not sustain the sense of unease the first act setup.

Then there were the kooky characters. Bunch of different types of people put together under extreme stress = such an overused horror movie cliche that writers' think it's mandatory. In the original, Romero had his characters take refuge in a mall to prove a point about consumerism, and in doing so played down the cliche. The remake didn't have a point.

I did like Sarah Polley in the title roll. Her spunkiness made her quite attractive, even hot. Jake Webber as "the do-gooder" and Polley's love interest was good as was Ving Rhames. And I liked Michael Kelly's character, the head mall security gaurd CJ, and the way he sort of transformed as the movie progressed. As for the baby thing, Omar Epps' character (not really his fault, it was a stupid role) just strained credibility which made the whole thing silly.

And don't even get me started on the ending with the island and the fact that it ran through the end credits (whoever thought up this gimmick, a la Wild Things, should be shot).

No, no....well I can't speak for the other fanboys, but the reason it's stupid to supercharge the zombies is because doing so entirely misses the point of the original.

Romero had these slow moving mindless zombies walk around the mall like...um....slow moving mindless shoppers. He was satirizing America's consumer culture which is worse today than it ever was. So the remake's filmmakers missed a huge oppurtunity to make a larger social statment. All they cared about was making their zombies run faster (which, by the way, 28 Days Later did first).

I'd reccomend the original's special edition DVD instead.