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The direct sequel to 1985's 'Day of the Dead'. It maintains the aesthetic of George A Romero's previous work, shambling zombies that never stop coming which can now wield crude weapons. It's a natural progression from the evolution of the zombie character of Chuck from 1985 who could use a weapon and the zombie who smashed a brick on the house in 1968's 'Night of the Living Dead'. The idea is not as preposterous as having trackstar zombies in a remake that basically took a dump on George A. Romero's classic 'Dawn of the Dead/Zombi'. That's what happens when you mistake '28 Days Later' for a zombie movie. People who claim to know George A Romero's work and find weapon wielding zombies absurd do not know George A. Romero's work. This is the last good zombie genre film that George ever made, it fell apart quickly in future sequels.Vollständige Rezension lesen
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Romero's classic trilogy becomes a quartet! As a zombie film fan this was my most anticipated movie and then dvd and then HD dvd of the past few years. Not as good as the original trilogy, this one still packs a punch. Survivors live in an urbanized island, some live in the fancy condo run by Dennis Hopper while others try to get by on the streets. Thing is this time around the zombies are begining to use their brains and they get creative on how to get to the island. Great special effects, smart writing and good acting - that is Asia Argento, Dario Argento's daughter as kick@ss Slack. HD just makes everything extra creepy and the gory special effects look amazing! This title comes with both the HD movie and regular dvd. So if you do not have HD yet you can still get it and it will work once you upgrade.Vollständige Rezension lesen
As a hard core zombie fan there is just one series of zombies film that as a fan you expect to be above and beyond most other flicks within the genre. Land of the Dead, the first zombie film from Living Dead Master George A. Romero in 20 years, his last being the 1985 tour de force, DAY of the DEAD. In 20 years a lot can be built up in the mind of a zombie horror fan. Once you have read the scripts and analyzed the hell out of the previous films you think that the master is never going to let you down. If you think that you are dead wrong when it comes to LAND of the DEAD, a film that should have been nothing but a sci-fi original direct to dvd crap fest. Instead Universal sought to ride the wave of the success of the 2004 remake of Romero's own DAWN of the DEAD, done brilliantly by Zack Snyder, releasing Land as a summer blockbuster film in between 2005's Batman Begins and War of the Worlds. What they got was a medicore opening with a less than mediocre film. Land's theatrical release lasted approximately 40 days and garnered the film about $20,000,000 at the US box office, a complete flop considering the films $18,000,000 budget. Land follows a world 3 years after the dead after taken over, where small pockets of survivors lived in fortified and secured parts of large cities. Rogue unit run into the dead lands to raid grocery stores, pharmacies and other businesses in these towns where the dead roam freely, to help sustain life for those in the big walled in cities. The problem with LAND of the DEAD is the story concept itself. Romero uses the post 9/11 fear of terrorism and republican government to try and give the viewer a social commentary about how life felt during the key Bush Jr. years, but on top of that he tries to make LAND a comic book adventure ride with smart zombies who can think, communicate and fire complicated weapons, and coordinate with each other to go over to the big city and eat and devour the living for disturbing their peace when raiding their parts of the world. The dead represent the IRAQI's, while the living represents america post 9/11 during the IRAQ war. the moral of the story tries to come off as we should all live in peace and harmony, but Romero throws in a gigantic amount of blood splatter to help keep horror fans interested while the rest of the mundane and dumb as hell story unfolds around the audience. When the 97 minute film comes to an end you not only feel dumber for having wasted your time watching it, but you also feel like one of the lifeless zombies when it is all said and done. It is so bad it sucks the life right out of you. Romero tends to work better under the hollywood radar, on an indie level, which is apparent in his 2007 opus Diary of the Dead, a much better zombie flick when compared with Land of the Dead, but still as a fan you must tune to get your fix of zombie horror and then hopefully someone will be kind enough to shoot you in the head to erase the memory of having sat through such tripe. This is one Studio budgeted zombie film to Avoid at all costs. F-Vollständige Rezension lesen
You like Zombie movies you gonna like this one! you liked Dawn of the Dead, then you going love this one too... Romero is the bringer of Zombie era! you can never go wrong with any of his Zombie Movies... even the Diary of the dead another he made, is great, not what everyone expected but great! This will be a cult classic in time! so get them! Must have!
good movie if you're into zombie flicks, which i am. it has action, gore, and a good story to go with it. i've seen alot of zombie movies like day of the dead (the remake) and zombie diaries, those movies dont even compare. so if you are in for a good flick check it out
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