Customer Reviews

LAND OF THE DEAD ROCKS!
5 STARS ALL THE WAY!
why should you buy this movie?
Asia Argento nuff said!

Decent Zombie Fix - Dumb Movie
It's pretty rare I run into a post-apoc flick featuring zombies I don't like and this one was only very nearly an exception but even I had to reinflate my belief suspension waterwings a few times to handle the film's blatant, sometimes staggering stupidity.

Romero's reach for social commentary via the undead appears to have exceeded his grasp of how even a world where the dead come back to the life has to adhere to other rules that support the likely.

The rich are rich because they have the most cash? How does this compute in a post-apoc/post-federal reserve world with miles and miles of untended cash registers for the plundering?

What need was there for a highly unlikely heavily reengineered massive all-terrain assault vehicle built from the remains of a train engine when a military vehicle or something a little more A-Team/Mad Max would have sufficed?

I liked that he extended the idea of the zombies getting smarter first put forward in Day of the Dead as this could have some interesting ramifications for their origin, but it felt a bit silly and poorly executed.

That said, it's zombies. It's got Dennis Hopper. It's post-apoc. If that sounds like it's enough for you it probably is. But it doesn't hold a candle to contemporaries 28 Days Later and the Dawn of the Dead remake.

Romero's redemption, and a movie "about" Zombies.
When the moment i've been waiting for more than a decade finally arrived and passed, my heart was divided. The movie was great and i liked it as entertainment, but what about my zombie-film fan backup, the one that took me years to put togheter and get to love? Let's check the two usual and controversial points in Romero's "Living Dead" features, in this last version of the saga he invented:

-THE HORROR MOVIE: Great, spectacular, entertaining, creepy, menacing, disturbing, dark, atmospheric action and horror film after all. Romero's redemption finally arrived after his last and less effective "day of the dead" feature. In this movie, he manages to create the tense and gruesome atmosphere for the "End of the World" scenario he always wanted. We can apreciate from the first scene every detailed aspect of the Zombie apocalypse on the planet, the hopeless and despaired remaining humans living like rats, going outside armed to the teet looking for suplies ,shooting around like crazy cowboys, but breathing the zombie terror in every desperate minute. There is absolutely no hope. Humanity's fate finally came down in one of the most visceral and dark catastrophes ever portrayed on film. The gates of hell are open: behold the zombie hordes taking over the World.

Great fast-action horrific and tense story, simple and straight forward, in a great acomplished ambient anybody could possibly achieve for the zombie menace. The morbid tale with the right ambient finally came, but....

-THE ZOMBIE CULTURE: What is going on here? Is romero trying to take his mythology to a new level? I guess the professor's "Pet" Zombie and his experiments back in "day of the dead" were for real, at least for Romero. For me, Zombies don't have to necesary be the theme, only a mean to create terror, right? So what's this "social behaviour" thing going on between zombies, this new leadership issue and the "compassion" showed for each other? I know they move in groups, are helpful to each other and share the task to destroy humanity, but this is too much: Now, they are self-aware, they almost have feelings, they provide mutual colaboration, they use weapons instead of tools, they have a leader? They're still cannibal vicious creatures, thank god, but this new zombie society putted me down. No matter how many people they dismember and eat alive, i just can't get over the last scene:"they only want to be left alone, in peace" NOOOO... Why did they invaded the city in the first place? To get filled with human flesh and leave in peace? We're cool now? Maybe we are taken this issue too seriously.

Anyway, for the fantastic portrayal of the zombie apocalypse on earth , the struggle of the remaining mand-kind and the lost humanity in this new, raw, and cruel world, survival techniques and display of military power, for Tom Savini, the great story, and any implied social propaganda, thank you Romero.

For the zombie culture aspect, i guess in a few more years we will have to ask the zombies what's really going on. Don't mind me, this is a very entertaining film, i recomend it for anybody who's up for real chilling screams! Then you tell me if Romero was "eaten" by his own myth.

The DVD edition is great, the extras are much like endless humurous documentaries, but the interviews are interesting. Find out why the master did what he did. Enjoy the Uncut Edition or the Original theatrical edition, it's all good.