For
the last film in Romero's dead series, he seems to have given up on
getting any kind of meaningful insight across. That's a bonus, as far
as I'm concerned, as the last film stank and the one before was too
blatant and silly. This one is silly too, but it's not trying to be
anything more than a fairly light-hearted zombie western about two
old guys with grudges and a band of ex-military survivors lead by a Hugh Jackman lookalike.
The
imaginative zombie dispatching is dwindling at this point, and the
editing (one of the strongest elements of his classics) has become
bland and formulaic. You can tell that nothing about this is an
independent picture any more. Romero never suited mainstream
Hollywood, he was at his best telling off the cuff stories that took
a lot of feeling from their location and grew into cohesion in the
editing.
I
liked this one more than 'Diary of the Dead', but not quite as much as 'Land of the Dead'.
While I hated the clunky commentary of that film, I did like the
setting and general concept. This film was far more run of the mill,
and while it was watchable, it was often comically uninspired.
Survival of the Dead: 33.2