Day of the Dead - Will's Review.

It's a funny thing with Zombie movies... AMCs "The Walking Dead" takes a bit of flack for being mostly people arguing in a confined location, with only the occasional Zombie attack; but that's the exact format of most of the good zombie movies too, and never moreso than in Romero's "Dead" series. 

Which leave me with very little to say; the plot here is quite thin and really is mostly people arguing, in particular Army knuckleheads arguing with scientists in an underground bunker which has been converted into a zombie reasurch facility. 

It's the third of the 'Dead' movies (following 'Night of the living...' and 'Dawn of the...') so the Zombie apocalypse is now in full swing (the movies don't follow on as such; they're unconnected save for being set in the same universe) and survivors are working on a cure, or failing that a way to domesticate them. Much of the tension is born of the disagreement between the 'destroy them', 'cure them' and 'tame them' camps, with the army guys predictably in the first camp, and as I've said, the tension between these groups has far more to do with the plot that the actual zombies. 

The general in charge of the bunker in particular is a real piece of work, willing to have the main protagonist for refusing to sit down during one of his meetings! I have a little bit of an issue with the carecter because he's almost cartoonishly nasty, but by the skin of his teeth he stays just the right side of the line. 

Speaking of the main protagonist, it's nice to see a femail lead who's a lead charecter first, and a woman second. By that I mean that she isn't there for t&a, nor is she there just to be a 'strong female charecter'... She's just a strong female charecter who happens not to have a penis - take note filmmakers; this is a strong female lead done right!

The real star of the show is 'Bub', the main zombie in the domestication project; by the simple act of showing him do some 'human' things (he tries to shave, uses a personall cassette player, and so fourth) Remero almost instantly turns him into a sympathetic carecter, and the asshole general is made all the more deplorable when he threatens the zombie. 

Props also go to Savini's special effects; though the gore is occasional, when it does come it is awesome!

So, as I say, the plot is thin, but the movie still manages to have that certain something that makes it very watchable.