The movie starts with an amazing opening sequence showing how the population of planet earth were attacked by zombies and I have to say, this opening sequence could be one of the best openings to any movie that I’ve ever seen. The editing is superb, creating super slow motion shots of zombies on fire chasing firemen, women driving cars being attacked by an entire scout troop and ending up flying through her windscreen! You’ll have to watch it to fully get what I am talking about but suffice to say it was excellent.
I think this movie had massive potential to be great, and in the first half it really does sell the story well with multiple belly laughs coming along, but the second half doesn’t deliver so much which was a shame. The girls in the movie are both well cast, in fact the entire main cast were all excellent with Bill Murray coming along for a cameo which was just genius. Throughout the movie, multiple nods to other films are mentioned not least that of Ghostbusters which is paid reference to multiple times. Murray admits to regretting ‘Garfield’ and the song to Deliverance also makes a cameo. Watching this movie with hundreds of film critics in the room was great as all the ‘in jokes’ seemed to work really well.
Something was missing though I’m afraid, and although the post production editing of the ‘rules’ that Eisenberg’s characters has are simply brilliant, they are all put in the first half of the movie leaving the second half a bit bare of substance which lets it down. That said, the effects were excellent and hats off to the costume and make up designers who did a brilliant job with all the zombies… and there must have been hundreds of them! The number of ways in which they die are countless, and in most cases, quite amusing!
I would definitely go and see this movie as I think it’s a great one to watch at the cinema. I thought there was potential for it to be as good as or better than Shaun of the Dead. Really, Shaun beats it hands down. In fact, the only think that you can compare about the two minutes are the fact that they both have zombies in them.
It’s got to be a 6.5/10 from me on this one. But if you’ve seen it, let us know what you thought in the comments below.
Zombieland is out next Friday, 9th October.
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Agree with Dave, a great start (especially the opening credits and the scene setting back-story & rules etc), but a disappointing second half. Good performances over-all, especially from the GREAT 'Ghostbusters' Bill Murray, but for me a lacking 6 out of 10 for the movie as a whole. This is mainly due to the lack of empathy with the characters …I didn't really care if they survived or not…& lack of breaking any new Zombie ground.
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Dude. I can't believe you revealed the Bill Murray thing! That so caught me by surprise and I loved it for that.
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IMDb did it for me when they put him in the credits.
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