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movie review - Land of the Dead

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

This is a zombie apocalypse movie from George Romero, who invented the genre. It's an updated version that I suspect is going for a "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome" vibe, trying to show us what society after the apocalypse looks like. Unfortunately, it's a bit one note and also fairly ham-fisted. Society is basically comprised of the elites that run every damn thing, and the underclass that does their bidding. Meanwhile, the zombies appear to have a sense of mission, and in one of those classic tropes they "seem to be evolving".

Dennis Hopper does what he can with the material as the inevitable bad guy in survivor society, but it's generally a mess and by the ending I just really wanted it over-with.

Not recommended.