Time to review one of the most highly regarded horror films of all time by everybody’s favorite zombie filmmaker, George Romero.
Is it safe to assume that you know the plot already? Eh, it’s a 40-year-old movie, so maybe not. In the third week of the zombie outbreak, Stephen and Fran plan on stealing a news station’s helicopter. Stephen’s friend, Roger, is supposed to meet them. Roger is a member of a SWAT team clearing out a housing or apartment complex. He asks his friend, Peter (Ken Foree of Devil’s Rejects fame), to come along with him. The four of them steal the chopper and make their way to a shopping mall and clear it out, make things comfortable before it all goes to shit inevitably.
This is a long ass movie, and I don’t think it needed to be this long. The beginning was chaotic and almost too different in pace that the rest of the film. I like the stuff at the mall quite a lot. That is until the biker gang. The biker gang is such a stupid part of the story. That is not to suggest that a biker gang wouldn’t have raided a place like a mall, but their actions were beyond stupid and lacked any real logic. If they have been surviving for 3-4 weeks at this point, maybe longer, then they should be acting smarter. Why would they go in and just trash so much stuff? What is the sense in not being systematic? They could have survived there for months if need be and make it home base. I’m sure that someone will try to give me some intellectual point about some social commentary that Romero was trying to make, but this whole thing was bullshit.
You know what else was bullshit? The fact that our original group didn’t grab all the guns and weapons and keep them in better locations. They worried about somebody eventually spotting them, so once they had the mall cleared, why wasn’t defense the next priority? Roger and Peter would have known better.
Honestly, for as long as this film was, it told a lot of stupid stories. Why is this film so highly revered? Really, why? I never understood why Godfather 2 was so highly revered over the original, and I will say the same for this. Too long and drawn out for my tastes.
Rating: 6.3 – This film has an 8.0 on IMDB and I think that is insane. Under no circumstances should this be rated higher than its predecessor. I don’t get it. There’s still more pro’s than con’s, but most blogs will blather on only about the positives, and I felt it was important to address some of the bullshit. Ken Foree was amazing though. And I already know that people will be pissed off at this review, and no, I don’t care.
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