I love zombie movies. Last year's Zombieland was an excellent film on par with Shawn of the Dead and the Dawn of the Dead remake. And while I have loved all five of George A Romero's five previous films, this one came up a little short.
Almost a direct sequel to his last film, Diary of the Dead, we follow a band of renegade soldiers, briefly seen in the last movie, going to an island populated by Irish people off the coast of Delaware. Why two Irish families that hate each other would settle on the same small island is never explained. Were they friends once and had a falling out? And why Irish? The movie stars a bunch of no names except for character actor Kenneth Welsh, probably best known as Winston Earl from the TV show Twin Peaks. The plot in of itself seems non existent. Soldiers come to Craggy Island (Father Ted reference), battle against zombies and an evil Irish rancher, the end. Really? That was it.
All in all, this film was kind of weak. The acting was terrible, the story made up on the fly it seems, and the social commentary I have come to expect from these movies was basically mankind is evil. Could have read that on box of Cracker Jacks. Romero is much better than this and I am kind of surprised that more thought didn't go into it. Merely filming zombies eating people is not enough any more. Be clever and funny like Zombieland and Shawn, or scary violent like in the Dawn remake. Something more was needed than this mess. And why Irish people? Never made sense to me at all in this movie. I actually thought they were on a real Craggy island off the coast of Ireland. When they said it was off of Delaware I could only think: WTF?
There is some good gore and it does move quick with its hour and half running time, but I would only recommend this for those who want to say I have seen the whole series. For the rest, skip it. It's not worth your time.
2 stars out of 5
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