It seems to me like too much time has passed since the last film of Romeros ZOMBIE-Series. The story of LAND OF THE DEAD is very interesting but the film doesn't really manage to live up to the expectations that have piled up since 1985. Its beginning is very much in the spirit of it's three predecessors: A next level of a human life surrounded by the dead. People are not hiding or trying to find help, they've arranged with the situation and have even created a society with different social classes.
Up to this point the story is exiting. Because also the dead evolve, they learn and become more "intelligent". The follow the humans like some sins they committed and they can't run away from. This is also a metaphor that - after more than 35 years - is still topical.
But Zombies communicating with each other looks as trashy as it sounds which is OK - if it was still 1985. But it doesn't mix with the dialogs in which every sentence spoken tries to find it's place in some autograph book. It looks like Romero has used most of his time since DAY OF THE DEAD on re-writes for the "perfect" sentences which now are overloaded with "philosphical" messages and make "Charmed" look like some Truffaut-Movie.
Compared with Zack Snyder's great DAWN OF THE DEAD remake last year it look like the pupils are about to outbalance the teachers...
Up to this point the story is exiting. Because also the dead evolve, they learn and become more "intelligent". The follow the humans like some sins they committed and they can't run away from. This is also a metaphor that - after more than 35 years - is still topical.
But Zombies communicating with each other looks as trashy as it sounds which is OK - if it was still 1985. But it doesn't mix with the dialogs in which every sentence spoken tries to find it's place in some autograph book. It looks like Romero has used most of his time since DAY OF THE DEAD on re-writes for the "perfect" sentences which now are overloaded with "philosphical" messages and make "Charmed" look like some Truffaut-Movie.
Compared with Zack Snyder's great DAWN OF THE DEAD remake last year it look like the pupils are about to outbalance the teachers...