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- An ambitious, over-the-top zombie heist mashup, Army of the Dead brings Zack Snyder back to his genre roots with a suitably gory splash. Read Critics Reviews There's plenty of buildup before the all-out action arrives, but Zack Snyder's second zombie movie gives you characters you can root for and a solid cast led by a terrific Dave Bautista.
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May 21, 2021 · An unforgettable zombie tiger, a strange sort of undead king/queen dynamic that shapes the action, a great sequence involving using brain-eaters to spring booby traps—these are the kind of fun, clever beats that keep “Army of the Dead” alive.
Watch Army Of The Dead with a subscription on Netflix. An ambitious, over-the-top zombie heist mashup, Army of the Dead brings Zack Snyder back to his genre roots with a suitably gory...
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May 11, 2021 · The first reviews of Army of the Dead lean positive with appreciation for the usual Snyder visual flair and dependable zombie carnage, even if the story isn’t tight enough. Here’s what...
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By Rafael Motamayor
Updated: Nov 4, 2022 12:32 am
Posted: May 19, 2021 9:45 pm
Army of the Dead is currently in limited theatrical release and debuts on Netflix on May 21.
When it was announced that Army of the Dead would see Zack Snyder return to the horror sub-genre that kickstarted his career, there was cause to be excited. But what starts as an escapist zombie/heist movie set in Las Vegas eventually devolves into a rote action movie, its few, fun but superficial surprises quickly washed away in favor of embracing the bleakness popular in the post-Walking Dead era of zombie stories.
Army of the Dead’s opening credits sequence teases a darkly hilarious and ironic zombie romp set in Sin City, presenting all the backstory and world-building required. Set to a Richard Cheese and Allison Crowe cover of "Viva Las Vegas," we see zombies quickly overrun the town, with every ridiculous Vegas staple you can think of -- from the obligatory Elvis impersonator to pageant queens and showgirls devouring tourists -- succumbing to the growing army of the dead. The sequence is a delight, offering everything you'd hope to see in a zombie heist movie set in Vegas. But the subsequent film never matches the promise of that great opening.
The plot sees former merc Scott Ward (Dave Bautista) approached by Bly Tanaka (Hiroyuki Sanada) with an offer to escape his post-zombie war, burger-flipping life by smuggling $200 million out of a casino safe before Vegas is nuked to rid it of zombies. (The nuking will happen on the 4th of July because the President thought it "would look cool" and "kind of patriotic, if you think about it.") The subsequent "putting the crew together" portion of the film is a hoot, with big "You son of a bitch, I'm in" energy as we're introduced to all the quirky characters -- and a few important tagalongs -- that anyone familiar with zombie movies knows will inevitably end up dead meat.
Scott’s mercenary group includes his close friends Cruz (Ana de la Reguera) and Vanderohe (Omari Hardwick, whose badass buzzsaw just sort of disappears early on), and sardonic helicopter pilot Peters (a scene-stealing Tig Notaro, who digitally replaced Chris D'Elia). Even though most of the characters are underdeveloped and very superficial, any time Vanderohe and safecracker Dieter (Matthias Schweighöfer) are together, hilarity ensues.
Once the crew enters Vegas, Snyder reveals his zombie influences and the clever additions he makes to the mythos. His film is almost a spiritual successor to Romero movies like Land of the Dead, and at other times, it also feels like the closest there’s been to a proper adaptation of the latter portions of the novel I Am Legend. There are regular zombies here, sure, but they coexist with fast zombies, as well as weirdly evolved "alphas," who have a bluish, sort of robotic look to them and are vastly more intelligent than regular zombies. And, of course, there’s that cool zombie tiger seen in the trailer. Some of the movie’s zombie lore, particularly when it comes to the leader of the zombies, is worthy of an entire sequel or spin-off just to explore the huge implications it suggests. (There's both an anime and a live-action prequel movie in the works.)
The problem is that the script -- credited to Snyder, Joby Harold, and Shay Hatten -- is not interested in exploring any of the myriad entailments of the plot beyond just a wink at the audience to make sure they know how clever the film is. While some of the mythology questions might be answered in the aforementioned follow-ups, that doesn't satisfactorily explain the film’s lazy allegory for the southern border detention centers beyond trying to nod to zombie movies’ long history of social commentary.
Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead may look cool on the surface, and it lures you in with potentially game-changing twists to zombie lore, but it quickly devolves into just another undead shoot 'em up with disposable, forgettable characters. While it does some fascinating things with the zombie genre that we haven't seen since George A. Romero, Army of...
May 11, 2021 · ‘Army of the Dead’ Review: Zack Snyder’s Zombies in Vegas Heist Thriller Is an Epic Meat-and-Potatoes Undead Flick Reviewed online, New York, May 10, 2021. MPAA Rating: R. Running time: 148 MIN.
May 11, 2021 · ‘Army of the Dead’ Review: Zack Snyder’s Zombie Heist Is a Ridiculous and Gory Good Time. Ever the maximalist ringmaster, Snyder's macabre and funny undead epic is escapism writ large. By...
Army of the Dead: Directed by Zack Snyder. With Dave Bautista, Ella Purnell, Omari Hardwick, Ana de la Reguera. Following a zombie outbreak in Las Vegas, a group of mercenaries take the ultimate gamble, venturing into the quarantine zone to pull off the greatest heist ever attempted.
