Land Of The Dead (Director's Cut) (DVD)

...complete a fourth part - Land Of The Dead. Where would this one go as a logical extension to the first three parts? Would humankind have finally begun to understand how to control these zombies, perhaps even live alongside them? Would the zombies have run out of food, with only a small legion of them still roaming and ambushing the odd unsuspecting human group? Or would the remaining human survivors have ventured from below ground, seeking fellow ...
...pains me to say that Land Of The Dead is a terrible film. Pure and simple. That's not to say that the acting and direction is substandard. Romero handles things perfectly adequately as you would expect. Dennis Hopper provides yet another one of his excellent over-the-top villains roles and the rest of the largely unknown cast (look out for Asia Argento in there - daughter of Dario - stealing a poor show) perform adequately also. Oh, and the special ...

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Land of the dead is George's 4th zombie movie on his list of 5, even after all this time he can still today portray the zombie genre that I believe he created in todays movies. Land of the dead is somewhat unoriginal from the rest of his movies, he leaves alot of the thinking to his audience. From the very beginning of this movie he jumps straight into the zombie apocalypse. We dont know where they came from or how it happened, but there everywhere..... ...
...a good zombie movie. Land of the dead was a brilliant come back for George A Romero and he will continue to make brilliant movies to scare his audiences all over the globe. I would definately put this high up in the ranks for best zombie movie, however its not number 1. ...

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I watched this film after Dawn Of The Dead and i have to say that i dont think that the story is quite as good or quite as scary but i still really enjoyed this film. The special affects and gory scenes were really exciting and although not on the same level as films such as Hostel, they were just enough and not too over the top. The fil;m is about a world where people are trapped as zombies rome the earth, groups of people have to go out and search ...
...However, the zombies get clever and learn how to fight back, i know this sounds a little cheesy but i do think it was well done and a film i would watch again and again. I personally would choose to buy this film from a "choices" store as their films are generally good value for money, however i can not remember how much this film was on sale for there. The acting was reasonably good and the characters were interesting and exciting. Camera angles ...

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...were mixed. Shunning any continuity, Land is not a direct sequel. The zombie crisis doesn't seem any worse than it was in the underrated Day Of The Dead and the characters in this film have modern technology - if society had collapsed in 1985's Day then surely this would be impossible. The centrepiece of Land is Fiddler's Green, a huge shopping mall with luxury apartments. The world as we knew it may have ended but capitalism still thrives. Dennis ...
...the zombies gatecrash this sanctuary. Land is about 'ignoring the problem' - zombies in this case a problem to turn a blind eye to like homlessness. Romero also makes some comments about the recent war in Iraq and veers a fine line between heavy-handedness and political thought. I love Romero and his series and have to admit Land is not the film I was hoping for. Romero's series is based around minimal characters that we care for and a feeling of ...

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George A. Romero the man with such heavy weights under his belt as Dawn Of The Dead and Night Of The Dead how does his return to the genre stand against his classics? Story The living dead have inhabited the world, and a group of surrivors hide out in a walled city, the wealthy hide in skyscrapers and the poor face chaos in the streets. Riley (Simon Baker) and Cholo (John Leguizamo) belong to a team that patrol outside of the city in a giant machine ...
...to the people. When Cholo is betrayed by the big cheese Kaufman, he steals dead reckoning and holds the city hostage, its up to RIley to find dead reckoning and save the city. If that wasn't enough zombie's are rapidly approching the city, showing signs of basic intelegance, the barriers won't hold out forever and things are going to turn ugly. The story sounds good, and at parts its really enjoyable, I especially enjoyed the momments in the underground ...

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George A. Romero is definitely the best zombie-movie director of all time. His "night of the living dead" through to "day of the dead" are all now classics and now he's made a fourth, "land of the dead". The film is set in a walled up city surrounded by water where the rich live in a skyscraper and live as though nothing has changed and the poor live out on the streets with basic supplies thrown down to them my the big guy who runs it all. The borders ...
...fences. This outline is what you would expect in the fourth instalment, humans have adapted to live in a world of zombies and some rich guy has gained all the power. The trouble is, this isn't the main feature, the storyline follows a zombie uprising where they learn how to use tools and even guns and head towards the walled up city to… well I don't know, one zombie seems to get upset by seeing other zombies being killed so he leads them in to battle, ...

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