Directed by Zack Snyder. Written Snyder, Shay Hatten and Joby Harold. Starring Dave Bautista, Ella Purnell, Ana de la Reguera, Garret Dillahunt, Hiroyuki Sanada, Huma Qureshi, Matthias Schweighofer, Nora Arnezeder, Omari Hardwick, Raul Castillo, Theo Rossi and Tig Nataro.
Plot: after the zombie outbreak, a group of mercenaries venture into the quarantine zone for the greatest heist ever.
A military convoy from Area 51 gets into a car accident and releases a zombie that turns all the soldiers into zombies that then head to Vegas. The governement walls off the infected Las Vegas and plans to bomb the city in three days time, eradicating the disease. Then, Tanaka (Sanada) approaches Scott Ward (Bautista), a former mercenary, about getting money out of a Vegas hotel. One of his hotels. $200 million to be exact. And Ward and the team he forms will all get a piece if they make it out alive.
Ward decides to do the job so that he can give the money to his estranged daughter, Kate (Purnell). So, he gathers a team and heads in, but at the last moment, Kate decides to go with them to search for her friend Geeta (Qureshi), who went in on her own looking for money for her own family.
In this film, the dead are really smart and have created their own society with a King and a Queen and everything. In order to get in successfully, the group need to offer a sacrifice. So Lilly (Arnezeder) offers them a rapey prison guard (Rossi) as a sacrifice. It works, they enter and the heist is on.
Kate is annoying the WHOLE movie, but the safecracker, Dieter (Schweighofer) is hilarious. The pilot, Peters (Nataro) is funny, too. The specials are amazing, the cast is great and the soundtrack is goodish. But there was far too much wrong with Snyder’s direction. For one thing, it was a bit long at 2 1/2 hours. For another, the end, which we think was supposed to be touching, fell flat. There were too many unlikable characters and the motive was bad. We were rooting for the zombies because all the humans were constantly stabbing each other in their back.
In the end, it was an okay movie, but we think it could have been a lot better.
I suppose I could list my favorite movies here, but instead I'll give you a strange glimpse into what makes me TaraRomero.
1. I met George Romero. He was the kindest and sweetest man. He talked to me for longer than he should have with the line getting longer. He also held my hand. And when he noticed the ladybug I have tattooed on my wrist, he said he liked it and asked me it's name. Till then, it had not had a name. Now, I call him George.
2. I love stickers. All stickers. I just adore them. I even ask for stickers for Christmas! As a matter of fact, the birthday that just past, every member of my immediate family gave me sticker packs as gifts. Affordable and extremely appreciated.
3. I have never put much stock in astrology or horoscopes, but I LOVE the magic of the MBTI. Omg. I am an INFP and it actually sounds just like me. Introverted mostly. Creative always. Heart before head and not the most logical. Totally me! For better or worse.
4. It's no surprise I count horror so high up on the list of things that make me, me. However, it's so within my soul that I was part of the Horror Club in college. Interesting bunch. And even took a Horror Lit class as an elective. I got an A.
5. Coffee always makes me happy. Always. I'm particularly fond of caramel macchiatos. But I'll drink black coffee if it's the only thing available.
6. I hate shock for the sake of shock and endings that depress me. I always mention the movies Within (2016) and the Eli Roth produced, written and starred in, Aftershock (2012), as proof of this distate I have. I abhor the idea that just because I like horror, some people think I'd actually praise a movie that lets you think the "Final Girl" just made it through the night, only to slap her in the face with a tsunami.
7. We are big time animal people. I mean, if I could, I'd have an elephant, a bear, a zebra, a penguin, an otter and a meerkat, living with me. Seriously though. We have 2 dogs right now and 2 cats. Both cats we picked up when they each came to our front door hungry. And both dogs we got from 2 different sets of neighbors. Both who, unfortunately, don't know how to care for pets long-term. But they're happy and healthy now!!
8. Revisiting my love of horror, one of the above cats, my cat, is a little black guy named Church. Because Pet Sematary. His middle name is even Pascow. To give credit where credit's due, the name was DJ's idea. But he loves horror too!
9. I'm big into art. Along with movie posters and an Anne Frank quote, I have some actual paintings on my wall. I really think Dali paints beautifully when he wants to. And if I don't get to see Michaelangelo's Pieta in person some day, I will be very disappointed.
10. Lastly, I find Emily Dickinson's poetry intriguing. I took an elective course about her as well. But do you know I injected horror even there? I was given a poem to dissect and I picked one on death, of course. Then, I researched old "Death Photos" and even printed out copies for everyone in the class. They were so interested in looking at them that it stopped them from all looking at me, and I was able to deal quite well with my stage fright. Haha
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2 thoughts on “Army of the Dead (2021)”
Excellent review and stated perfectly when you said it was okay but could have been better. The characters were just unlikeable to a degree we didn’t care what happened to them, whether they leaned good or bad. Didn’t care if the good got out and didn’t really hope the bad ones got killed. I think they tried to work too many in to give it some variety and diversity but spread them so thin no one cared about any of them. Peters was good, she reminded me of someone and Dieter as hilarious as you said. He is the one I didn’t want to die.
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Excellent review and stated perfectly when you said it was okay but could have been better. The characters were just unlikeable to a degree we didn’t care what happened to them, whether they leaned good or bad. Didn’t care if the good got out and didn’t really hope the bad ones got killed. I think they tried to work too many in to give it some variety and diversity but spread them so thin no one cared about any of them. Peters was good, she reminded me of someone and Dieter as hilarious as you said. He is the one I didn’t want to die.
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Thank you. Glad you saw it our way. LOL
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