Amazon.com: Are you ready to get down with the sickness? Movie logic dictates that you shouldn't remake a classic, but Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead defies that logic and comes up a winner. You could argue that George A. Romero's 1978 original was sacred ground for horror buffs, but it was a low-budget classic, and Snyder's action-packed upgrade benefits from the same manic pacing that energized Romero's continuing zombie saga. Romero's indictment of mega-mall commercialism is lost (it's arguably outmoded anyway), so Snyder and screenwriter James Gunn compensate with the same setting--in this case, a Milwaukee shopping mall under siege by cannibalistic zombies in the wake of a devastating viral outbreak--a well-chosen cast (led by Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Jake Weber, and Mekhi Phifer), some outrageously morbid humor, and a no-frills plot that keeps tension high and blood splattering by the bucketful. Horror buffs will catch plenty of tributes to Romero's film (including cameos by three of its cast members, including gore-makeup wizard Tom Savini), and shocking images are abundant enough to qualify this Dawn as an excellent zombie-flick double-feature with 28 Days Later, its de facto British counterpart. --Jeff Shannon
These zombies run faster than usain bolt,for zombie fans is worth watching only once,i watch it once and it was ok for one time but never care to see it again or much less buy it.This film will fade away with time as so many others zombie films but Romeros classics will be around forever,people always remember the original,especialy when the original is a hell of a lot better .For those who think that is abaut nostalgia,young people from all over the world go to Monroeville shopping center to see where the original was made,most of them are in their 20s so that kills the nostalgia factor.
Great movie, but... I was quite excited to see the movie getting the blu-ray treatment with a nice price tag on it. Great movie. Seen it many-many times. Bought it for the sake of collecting.
But...
I am disappointed at the fact that there were no added bonus feature to the disc. Really-really disappointed.
Armageddon in Wisconsin . . . You can see that this is a different take of Romero's undead universe. The zombies are similar to the ones in Return of the Living Dead, except that the intelligence and spoken words are taken out of context. The scares, despite having more obvious shock effects, do have the same effect as Land of the Dead and the original Dawn of the Dead. It may not have the same cult following as the original, but it is indeed way creepier. It's yet another classic in the zombies genre.
Grade: A
Best zombie movie ever! This movie is, by far, the best zombie movie ever made. It captures the whole notion of the entire zombie genre in a way that no other film has. Don't get me wrong, George Romero is great, and the original Dawn of the Dead was a great, groundbreaking movie. But this remake, to my mind anyway, captures the essence of the genre like no other (at least that I've seen). The basic premise of this film is that a large segment of the populace becomes infected with a plague that first kills their victims then rapidly (within several minutes) reanimates them and turns them into mindless savages. The contagion is spread by bites, and once infected that person will ultimately be transformed into a zombie.
At the center of the film you have a small group of survivors at first struggling to comprehend exactly what has happened. The virus spreads rapidly through society destroying civilization. Our small group of survivors decide to hole up in a shopping mall (ala the original Dawn of the Dead). Slowly they accrete several additional survivors, but large numbers of zombies also show up outside the mall, effectively trapping the occupants. This has all the elements of the zombie genre that make it great. There are a small group of survivors battling hordes of aggressive, relentless zombies using their wits and some occasional heavy firepower. The zombies are bloodthirsty and damn scary. Add a great (and appropriately apocalyptic) soundtrack, some cameos from several actors that played key roles in Romero's original film, and some great dialogue that doesn't take itself too seriously (America always sorts it's sh*t out), and you have a great film. The story loses its way a bit at the end as it degenerates into a rather routine escape/evasion story, but this is a minor complaint. There seems to be a bit of a renaissance in the zombie literature recently, and I think that if you like the zombie tales of J. L. Bourne, Max Brooks, and other, you'll love this film. Highly recommended!
Get Down With the Sickness!!! This is okay, but George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead is hella better than this, because it is a classic zombie movie that's a sequel to one of my favorite zombie movies; Night of the Living Dead. The remake doesn't seem like a sequel to the Night of the Living Dead remake, but a film on its own. I guess I'm old skool about my horror movies, but good horror movies are hard to find these days. If you love modern zombie flicks, you'll probably like DAWN OF THE DEAD!!!
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