Just a well made movie imo.
I have no idea what to write as a review. If you liked the first one you’ll probably like this too. Nothing super gay or woke imo, just some excellent characters in interesting situations. A couple audible “what the fuck am I watching” were elicited.
Im looking forward to the sequels, in spite of the announced director for the next one (though I’ve not seen anything she’s made, she did make the Marvels…)
When I first heard about “mutant” zombies, in the pre-release buzz, I thought it sounded retarded. When I saw the first “mutant” zombies in the movie i thought it was a bad sign for the rest of the movie. But, looking at things more holistically I enjoyed it for two main reasons:
-The first movie already turned the image of the stereotypical zombie on its head by inventing zombies that sprint like Ethiopians chasing a gazelle. A decade or two later it’s easy to forget how revolutionary that was.
-Further to the last point, these never were zombies in the first place. They’ve never been the immortal, re-animated dead. They’ve always just been sick humans, we even saw them starving to death at the end of Days
It’s kind of one of the core themes of the movie : (Spoilers)
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The dad tells the son “Thet have no mind. They have no soul.” when trying to get him acclimated to killing them without remorse (“the more you do it the easier it gets.”). Then in the next act, we see almost the exact opposite, the scene with the mother in the train. The doctor says he builds his tower with the bones of human and infected alike, “because they are alike.”
Not to say you didn’t get that about the film, just that in that light I don’t have as much issue with their approach as I thought I was going to. There’s also two more movies to see how they “evolve” (heh, sorry) this plot line
It was definitely quite a “video-gamey” choice, making the universe more like Resident Evil or The Last of Us than the classic Romero take.