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Summary: I was looking forward to seeing this movie, but was fairly disappointed.

The idea is great, mixing the documentary style film making with a typical zombie apocalypse. The big flaw with this movie is that there needs to be a valid reason to film. The Blair Witch Project worked because they went out into the woods with the express purpose to document the Blair Witch legend. They had a reason to film.

But while watching the film, I couldn't find a reason as to why these people would be filming all this. Why would you film hordes of zombies coming towards you? The people filming it certainly didn't have one, I thought the main priority was to pick up a gun and survive, not film your death. And because of this, it lost all of its realism.

There were other things that made it lose its realism. The little things.
Why is everything so clean after a month of fighting off zombies? The people, their cloths and even the cars they drove were far to clean.
The scavengers wouldn't of been able to fight off many zombies, due to the fact they were using an air rifle.
The script and the acting weren't at all convincing. Production was shoddy and not very resourceful.

This leads me to believe that the film makers just aren't very good or experienced, or both. They lack the skill and more importantly the natural talent I have seen from other independent film makers that have gone on to do bigger things.

If this idea was put in the right hands, it would of been great. But the film making is just terrible, and killed it.

Now I can't wait for Romero's attempt. At least Diary Of The Dead has a solid reason to why the event is being filmed, and hopefully with Romero's skill and 40 years experience, he can rescue the idea.

Languages: English, French

Subtitles: English, French

Sound: AC-3

Summary: If there's been a zombie apocalypse and you're road-tripping alone though the wasteland, you could do worse than run into Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson), a bourbon-swilling bad-boy butt-kicker with a really cool car. This is where the careful hero of "Zombieland", a kid nicknamed Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg), finds himself early in the film, and you can hardly blame him for hitching a ride with this swaggering Alpha Male. Still, they have their hands full not only with gibbering zombies but also with two sisters (Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin) who will stop at nothing to reach a Disneyland-like amusement park in L.A. Although "Zombieland" gets off to a rocky start with Columbus's overly-cute narration (he's got a list of rules for surviving in the zombie world), it settles into an amusing comedy, regularly interrupted by bouts of blood-letting. The road-trip stuff is enough fun that when the movie does arrive at its version of Disneyland, the air goes out of it a little; sure, there's a giant zombie blowout, with entrails flying, but it's not quite the same. Director Ruben Fleischer keeps the gags coming, although the movie is often funnier in its odd little asides (both Eisenberg and Harrelson are expert at this) than in its official jokes. Comic high point: an interlude at the home of a very famous movie star, who plays himself--and we'll leave the spoiler unspoiled, in case anybody hasn't heard about this funny extended cameo." --Robert Horton"


Stills from " Zombieland" (Click for larger image)