A young female nurse named Ana (Sarah Polley) notices that something isn't right about her daughter.
She looks ill but then she bites her husband and suddenly her husband turns vicious.
When Anna escapes her house she notices that her neighborhood has gone mad with flesh eating zombies.
She drives down the highway until she is rescued by a black police officer named Kenneth (Ving Rhames) as they find shelter in a mall with some other survivors.
But they run out of food and some of them slowly turn into zombies.
They plan to travel to an island to see if they can survive there but will they make it.
This remake doesn't really go anywhere
but still theres lots of good effects and
action sequences. The beginning does show a normal day with a character named Ana as a nurse finishing her job at the hospital and then she sees someone lying in the back of their ambulance which leaves an impression if this person is a zombie which can make you cringe while watching this. She seems to have a normal family life with her husband in which they shower together before going to bed which seems pleasant but then first thing in the morning all hell breaks loose which looked exciting as their daughter turns into a zombie and then bites her husband and he goes berserk. There's a perfect dark shot on this
pushing open a door as well as her coming
up and showing a vicious zombie
expression as well as a great shot on her
biting this person. There's another perfect shot on the husband lying on the ground after being thrown
looking up with clenched teeth ready to
attack again. A nice shot on her husband rising up and then
trying to attack her which
looked great as well as perfect shots on
her trying to escape. A great shot on an armed neighbor pointing
a gun walking across the street and an
ambulance bashing into him along with
other bizarre zombie events happening in
the neighborhood. Suddenly the neighborhood has gone mad including an ambulance running over a resident in which you don't see that in your everyday life.
A perfect distance shot on vehicles
bashing into one another on a road with
flames in the air and helicotpters flying
around.
A nice shot looking up on Kenneth pointing a shotgun.
Like in the remake she hides out in an abandoned mall with other survivors but they spot redneck security guards which seems to be a nice touch to the story on them not being pleasant to them and acting greedy too. Of course there's the odd zombie appearing in the mall that they have to terminate which keeps the story flowing.
There's a great battle between Kenneth along with Michael against some zombies
in a mall which makes you wonder if they
will be the next one's that will be bit.
A nice shot inside a water fountain with Ana's hand being washed as you wonder if
something is going to grab her.
There's a nice shot on an elevator door
opening and Steve, CJ and Terry stand
there as security guards holding rifles
and having a nasty attitude towards them.
There's a good shot on
a bloated woman groaning in pain lying in
a wheelbarrel being pushed into the mall.
Then there's choices to be made after someone gets bit which includes a caring father and the daughter upset
that her father is going to die which seems very emotional. Good camera angle shots on the daughter crying and hugging her father.
Also a pregnant woman who turns into a zombie while giving birth to a baby as this is creepy wondering on what the results will be as well as her husband losing sanity by keeping her and the unseen baby so far alive. This moment was truly psychological. For example, a nice creepy moment between he is trying to help her go into labor as she does
well acting in pain and then falling
dead. There's a good shot on him
bending down and kissing her close to
tears along with a nice shot on her
pregnant stomach with the baby inside
moving. The wife does a nice
job waking up into a zombie and acting
menacing trying to bite.
Good scene's on everyone taking advantage
on what's in the mall.
There's also moments on top of a roof of the mall where they communicate with a survive across another building as well as playing chess etc. which seems stale and unfunny which this film tried it's best to be that way.
We have a good discussion between Michael talking to CJ to try and
help him battle zombie's out in the
parking lot to get to the vehicles and he
refuses which was strongly done.
Many great fast action scene's involving Michael, CJ and Kenneth shooting zombie's in the parking lot.
There are also great scene's on everyone
putting armor and other types of weapons
onto the vehicles.
There's a great shot on a vehicle
standing in the middle of hundreds of
zombie's swarming around.
Bottom line is that slow walking zombie's are too overrated
so this film brings the real terror on
them running fast this time making it
more of a challenge to the victim's
trying to survive. There's also great CGI effects used in the film.
Although it had a same kind of story like
in Romero's flick on people
hiding out in a mall the other situations
are different all together as that's what
a remake should really be instead of
watching a repeat.
The beginning really is disturbing as
just when you think it's a pleasant
neighborhood in the evening turns into a
zombie nightmare in the morning as the
terror rushes so fast.
The acting is very well
done and everyone contributed nicely with
their roles. Sarah Polley (Ana) is
good at trying to be a stabled nurse with
all the madness going on bringing nice
strength to her character.
Ving Rhames (Kenneth) shows a perfect tough
attitude as a cop in the film with his
strong words and actions to his part. He probably stole the story with his characteristics in which he brings everything to life as well as showing a good sense of humor too.
Jake Weber (Michael) has the perfect nice guy
next door like attitude to his part and a
worthy character actor too as many will
remember his part in this film.
Makhi Phifer (Andre) is also an actor who
stands out as a caring and sympathetic
husband in the flick.
Ty Burrell (Steve) does his part so well as
a sleazy guard that you'd really want to
hate dealing with him showing a perfect
bad ass attitude.
Michael Kelly (CJ) has a great aggressive
and arrogant attitude to his part as
another guard in the mall making a great
leader of his pack.
Lindy Booth (Nicole) does well with her
anxious attitude and emotions too which
makes you want to help her. A nice reaction on her after she realises that her onscreen father has to
be killed since he was bitten by a zombie
as it looked a bit disturbing.
There is a sex scene
performed by Kim Poirer with
some brief nudity on her.
A neck is bitten with blood
gushing out
Bodies are bashed
A sharp wooden object is stabbed through
a zombie's head
Heads are blown off
Some armless zombies
More bloody bite marks
Tyler Bates does a
good score for the film and a marvellous
job he is at doing that which he has some
good booming sounds and suspenseful
trumpet playing along with some great
razor sounds. There's tons of other
gloomy sounds too.
Michael:
Truck's not gonna make it to Fort Pastor.
Steve: No, forget the truck. That place
is fucked, man. Bloodbath city.
Kenneth: How do you know?
Norma: We just came from there.
Kenneth: Is everyone there dead?
Steve: Well, dead-ish.
Kenneth: Is everyone there dead?
Steve: Yeah, in the sense that they all
sort of, uh... fell down... and then got
up... and started eating each other.
Michael:
So what's the plan?
CJ: The plan is you drink a nice tall
glass of Shut The Fuck Up!
Michael:
Look, there's no point in arguing about
this, all right? We need a solution. We
need... we need to get some food over
there.
Steve: Yeah, OK, I have an idea. We draw
straws and the loser runs across the lot
with a ham sandwich.
[his last
line]
CJ: Fucking figures!
Steve:
It's nice to see that you've all bonded
though this disaster.
Televangelist:
How do you think your God will judge you?
Well, friends, now we know. When there is
no more room in hell, the dead will walk
the earth.
Televangelist:
Hell is overflowing, and Satan is sending
the damned to us. Why? God is punishing
us. You have sex out of wedlock. You have
man on man relations, same sex marriages.
How do you think your God will judge you?
Well, friends, now we know. When there is
no more room in hell, the dead will walk
the earth.
Confused
Reporter: I understand you're having a
difficult time killing these things,
Sheriff.
The County Sheriff: Just shoot them in
the head! They seem to go down
permanently if you shoot them in the
head.
Bart:
Look, he's a "twitcher".
[CJ and Terry watch the twitching
zombiefied security guard]
Bart: TV says you gotta shoot 'em in the
head.
Terry: TV said a lot of things that
aren't true.
CJ: Fuck the fucker. I told him not go to
downstairs.
[CJ shoots the zombiefied security guard
in head]
Kenneth:
[writing on a board to Andy who is
stranded on a rooftop across the parking
lot] Fort Pastor gone. No help coming.
Andy: [writing a response back] So what's
the bad news?
CJ:
Hey... I like this song.
Steve:
[playing "Hollywood Squares"
with Andy] Ooh! Ooh! Um... Rosie
O'Donnell! Tell him to get Rosie!
Kenneth: Ooh, yeah! Rosie!
Tucker: Nah, too easy! Give 'em something
hard.
Ana: You guys had really rough
childhoods, didn't you? Little bit rocky?
Andre:
[to Michael] Hey, my man... I hear you
talkin' a lot, you know, you're always
sayin' something... Who the fuck are you,
that we should listen? Were you, like, in
a special ops unit in the marines? What
the fuck do you do?
Michael: I sell televisions at Best Buy.
Andre: [to Kenneth] Hey, officer! How do
you like following a guy that sells TVs?
Kenneth: About as much as I like
following a guy who steals them. I'm not
following anyone.
Kenneth:
Fuck y'all!
[Bloating
Woman becomes a zombie]
Terry: Holy Shit!
Ana: The
bleeding is not gonna stop on its own. I
need to suture his arm.
CJ: What are you, a fucking doctor?
Ana: No, I'm a fucking nurse.
CJ: [to
fellow survivors] And I don't want
anybody sneaking around and stealing
shit.
CJ: [to
Bart] Hey dumbass, it's the timers, it's
eight o'clock.
[to Terry]
CJ: Go turn 'em off.
Terry: It's Bart's turn.
Bart: You're the trainee, man. Shit rolls
downhill.
CJ:
America always sorts it's shit out.
CJ:
Fucking nursery school.
CJ:
[waving a gun at fellow survivors] I'll
kill all of you to stay alive.
CJ: Not
to shit on anyone's riff here, but let me
just see if I grasp this concept, ok?
You're suggesting that we take some
fucking parking shuttles, and reinforce
them with some aluminum siding, and then
just head on over to the gun store and
watch our good friend Andy play some
cowboy movie jump-on-the-covered-wagon
bullshit. Then, we're gonna drive across
a ruined city, through a welcome
committee of a few hundred thousand dead
cannibals, all so that we can sail off
into the sunset on this fucking asshole's
boat?
[Points to Steve]
CJ: And head for some island that for all
we know doesn't even exist?
Kenneth: Yeah.
Tucker: Pretty much, yeah.
Ana: [nods her head]
Michael: Yeah.
Steve: [gives a sarcastically
enthusiastic "thumb up"]
CJ: Okay... I'm in.
Andy:
They say that those things are dead. I
know that's a bunch of BULLSHIT!
Ana:
[watching Kenneth, Steve and Tucker play
"Hollywood Squares" with Andy]
You guys had really rough childhoods,
didn't you?
Steve: Hey, sweetheart, let me tell you
something. You, uh, you have my
permission, I ever turn into one of those
things... do me a favor, blow my fuckin'
head off.
Ana: [nods her head yes] Oh, yeah, you
can count on that!
CJ: [to
Terry through the bars of the holding
cell] Come on, Terry, open the door.
Bart: Yeah, man, let us out - I got you
this job!
Ana:
That's probably the most romantic thing
anyone's ever said to me.
Michael: I'm trying, Ana.
Bart:
Hey, you guys know that chick from Dairy
Queen?
CJ: The fat one?
Bart: Yeah, she was coming over tonight.
I would've tapped that shit for sure.
Terry: Bart, dude, everybody's dead, OK?
Your mom's dead, your brother's dead, the
fat chick at Dairy Queen... dead.
Bart: Yeah, that sucks too.
Michael:
[to Norma on her rescue] Well done.
Norma: Thanks.
Steve: Hey, I'm sorry, excuse me... when
you two fellas are done blowing each
other, maybe Davy Crockett could tell us
the deal here?
Michael:
You coming with us?
Kenneth: Nah, you're coming with me. I've
done this before.
Kenneth:
You know how to use that?
Michael: [pointing to the gun barrel]
This is the dangerous end, right?
Kenneth: [Taking the safety off] Now it
is.
Kenneth:
[pointing a gun at Ana] Say something.
Ana: Please...
Andre:
Shatter-proof, asshole.
Terry: I
wish somebody was working Hallowed
Grounds.
CJ: How hard is it to make a cup of
coffee?
Terry: I wanted a soy mocha latte with
foam.
Bart: Faggot.
Michael:
Steve, don't fuck this up!
Steve: Yeah, totally.
Steve:
Wait, wait, wait, I'm sorry... why does
he stay here while I go on the suicide
mission to rescue Terry's already-dead
girlfriend?
Terry: Hey, fuck you man!
Michael: We don't know that...
CJ: You know what, asshole? Either way we
gotta get over there and get the guns to
get out of the parking lot, OK?
Ana: I
don't wanna die here.
Ana:
Frank, Michael's coming to shoot you.
Andre:
It's a girl!
Michael:
Officer, sir, you do not want to go that
way.
Kenneth: Why? What's that way?
Michael: It's pretty bad.
Andre: It's hell.
Kenneth: What about Fort Pastor?
Andre: Maybe, if you had wings. The
road's thick with those motherfuckers
that way.
Kenneth: How do you know?
Andre: We just tried...
Michael: Back when there was eight of us.
We're going to the mall.
Michael:
There is no other place to go!
CJ: Well, that's YOUR problem, not mine.
Kenneth: How about I put my foot up your
ass, will that be your problem?
CJ: [to
Kenneth] You can take your ass over to
the Quality Inn if it's still there,
Shaq!
Luda:
[referring to her unborn child] I want
Russian name.
The
County Sheriff: Danny, put another round
in that woman over there! Look! She's a
twitcher!
Steve: I
run a tight ship.
[Ana is
talking to Tucker at Hallowed Grounds and
then looks over at Steve, who is pouring
himself a cup of coffee]
Ana: It's nice to see you busting your
ass.
Steve: Oh, that's sarcasm. That is so
awesome.
[Forced Laugh]
Steve: You know, I would love to help,
but the captain never works alongside his
men.
[Dangles his keys in front of Ana and
Tucker and then whips them, making a
cracking sound as he does so]
Steve: Well, you guys have a good 'un.
[He leaves]
Ana: What a total dick.
[C.J. is
on the roof of Andy's Gun Works with a
sniper rifle preparing to shoot a propane
tank]
Nicole: [in the store with Kenneth,
Michael and Terry] How will we know if he
hits it?
[there's huge explosion]
Steve: I
have an idea. While we're at it, why
don't we drop by the marina, hop in my
boat and take it for a pleasure cruise,
you jackasses!
Ana: Wait, that's a good idea. There's
islands out there. There's not many
people on them.
Steve: I was kidding.
Ana:
[everyone has run to the roof to watch
the BP truck racing around the mall
parking lot] What are we gonna do about
that truck?
CJ: We're not gonna do anything about
that truck!
Ana: There's people in there!
CJ: Yeah, and how do you know they're not
all fucked up like everybody else out
there?
Ana: Well, for one thing, they're driving
a truck.
[gunshots coming from truck]
Ana: Oh, and shooting guns.
CJ:
[shooting a female zombie running at him]
Bitch!
Nicole:
Chips, come here. Come on, Chips!
Monica: [mocking] Come on, Chips. |