Review of Survival of the Dead (2010) by Louis F — 26 Sep 2010
The zombie film genre has officially past George Romero by. We'll always have have his early classics and no one will ever argue that he was paramount in giving birth to a genre but this latest chapter does nothing but tread water in a genre that is already far too full with unwatchable crap and boring, uninspired bullshit to take on another floater.
How come movies Romero made 30 years ago look better than this?
How come there is an emphasis on "creative" zombie deaths that rely on corny, bad cgi over any of the characters proving that they know anything about survival in a world ruled by zombies?
It's night, you're on a boat, approaching an island secretly, you're going to use a flare gun to kill a zombie?
Bullets easy to come by in this fallen world? It certainly seems so the way the soldiers pump stupid amounts of rounds into zombies seated in cars.
No one in the film seems to know anything about survival.
The acting is bad. The characters are flat and one dimensional.
When you don't shoot your film on film it doesn't look like a film, it looks like cable access.
I've long been a defender of Romero's recent work, I loved Land of the Dead and Diary of the Dead, however Survival shows that Romero is out of touch, living in the past, making movies with the mentality of 1973 but without any of the technical prowess that made his films of the past hugely enjoyable. Skip the hell out of this one.
This review of Survival of the Dead (2010) was written by Louis F on 26 Sep 2010.
Survival of the Dead has generally received negative reviews.
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