Zombie fans director Zack Snyder has become somewhat of a cult icon over the past years with the #ReleaseTheSnyderCut finally paying of on March 18th 2021. However Zack Snyder also had another film in development and well that film has been released into theaters and well I thought that'd give you my SPOILER FREE review of the movie and so join me as I review the Zack Snyder zombie film that is currently taking movie theaters / cinemas by storm with the film in question / the film itself being called simply "Army Of The Dead" enjoy.
The plot of this film is a group of people are tasked with robbing a Las Vegas casino the only problem is Las Vegas is filled to the brim with all kinds of Zombies. In terms of what I personally thought about the plot of this particular film in all honesty the plot of this film is alot better then what I personally thought that it would be since to me the plot of this movie makes the movie sound pretty stupid but in actuality the plot of this movie is in my opinion at least very fun and very entertaining.
Starring in this film is Dave Bautista as Scott Ward , Ella Purnell as Kate Ward and Omari Hardwick as Vanderohe. Also starring in this film is Ana De La Reguera as Maria Cruz , Theo Rossi as Burt Cummings , Matthias Schweighöfer as Ludwig Dieter , Nora Arnezeder as Lily , Hiroyuki Sanada as Bly Tanaka , Garret Dillahunt as Martin , Tig Notaro as Marianne Peters , Raúl Castillo as Mikey Guzman , Huma Qureshi as Geeta , Samantha Win as Chambers , Athena Perample as The Bride , Michael Cassidy as Sergeant Kelly and Richard Cetrone as Zeus.
As for what I personally thought about the acting that's featured / presented to us in this very film in all honesty the acting that's featured / presented to us in this very film is alot better then what I thought it was going to be. Simply because the very idea behind this film doesn't really allow for good acting and depending on what you personally think of writer , producer and director Zack Snyder then you either like his films and think that he's a god or you hate him and everything about him and you hate every film that he's ever made , I personally think that he's an OK director and in my opinion at least he knows how to direct he's actors and that shows through in the acting / performances in this film since every actor that's starring /appearing in this film gives the right performance for their respective character.
Now I was going to review the 2004 Dawn Of The Dead film since that film was also directed by Zack Snyder however with this film reaching shall we say certain parts of the internet a few days early that review has now been scrapped. However I do now wish that Zack Snyder had made more zombie films since it's clear from this film that he's very interested in adding things to the zombie mythology instead of just sticking to what George A. Romero came up with.
I will admit that having a zombie film set in Las Vegas is indeed a very good idea and while I cannot say if we've seen any other zombie film use the Las Vegas i'm glad that this film uses a setting that to my knowledge at least hasn't been used that much or at all in zombie media. That being said tho this film doesn't take full advantage of it's Las Vegas film setting since you very easily could have had some fun with the zombies that we see in Las Vegas and as well as give us some pretty fun locations for some of this films many action sequences.
Now then boys and girls if you know your Zack Snyder films then you'll know that when he wants to do he can have some really fun opening titles and the same is true for this film and while I won't give anything away I will say that the film is pretty much worth watching just for the opening titles alone. Since in my opinion at least the opening titles for this film are so fun and they are a pretty good indicator of what you should expect from this film plus the song that plays over the opening credits is just the perfect song and it's really the only song that you'd want playing over the opening credits / titles of a zombie movie that's being set in Las Vegas.
Now I will fully admit that I had no idea that this film was even playing in theatres / cinemas mostly because this is a Netflix film and well nine times of ten Netflix doesn't release a film to theatres / cinemas they just release it straight to Netflix. As such I was surprised to learn that this film was being released into theatres / cinemas but only for a week and only in a certain chain of theatres / cinemas which means that this film can't really make any money since not alot of people will be able to see this film in either theaters or cinemas however I can see where Netflix is coming from by releasing this film into theatres / cinemas since Zack Snyder is a very bankable name right now and so releasing his next movie to cinemas / theatres does make sense but it should have been released into more theatres / cinemas and should be playing in those theatres / cinemas for much longer then a week but that's just what I think anyways and that's just in my very humble and as well as being in my very honest opinion anyways.
Now then boys and girls one of the things that this film got alot of criticism for was it's running and since this film has a running time of exactly two hours and twenty one minuets and fifty two seconds I can honestly see why. Since this film really didn't need to be that long at all in my opinion since you very easily could have told the plot / story of this film in well under two hours and you'd have to loose nothing that's important to the actual story / plot of this film either in order to make this film come in at well under two hours.
Now then boys and girls there are zombies in this film and that means that we have to talk about the actual scares that are featured / presented to us in this / the actual film itself and if i'm being honest here boys and girls the zombies in this film look really good. The Issue with these zombies is however the fact that they don't really do anything that scary other then look slightly creepy or lung at people really fast which is a shame because visually the zombies that are featured / presented to us in this film do look both really cool and really creepy but that's really it and that's really not even close to being enough to making a scary zombie movie since you need actual scares to make your zombie movie actually scary.
Overall this film is so much better then Spiral AKA Spiral: From The Book Of Saw but that's not really a high bar to reach tho and this film can be really fun and funny when it wants to be but there are also alot of things that are wrong that I personally didn't like with this film. Now then boys and girls since i've talked about both of the good and as well both of the bad things that are wrong with this film in this very review that means that this film gets a solid 7.5 out of 10 from me.
As for where I personally got all of the images that I used in this very review well then boys and girls I personally got all of the images that I used in this very review from Google Images , the official Netflix fandom wiki page and the official Army Of The Dead fandom wiki page. In terms of which website I personally preferred to get the images from this film from it has to be the official Army Of The Dead fandom wiki page simply just due to the fact that not only was there alot of images up on there but alot of the images that are up on the official Army Of The Dead fandom wiki page are very high quality and very high definition and so as always boys and girls we end this review as we always do with our one true goddess Elvira wishing us all some very unpleasant dreams indeed.
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