Army of the Dead

You should listen to Daddy! A perverse action B-movie that is pleasant to watch, despite its length. As most Netflix productions, it stays somewhere half-way between cinema and TV. Snyder blew logic to smithereens (nuked it) and in the end they no longer even try to explain anything. Maybe he just skimped the job. He simply presents what he finds cool and you just have to take it or leave it. The zombie tiger, walking through the traps, the totally over-the-top ending in the helicopter. The disco. (05/24/2021)

Someday when the dictionary entry for "biggest film blunder" is written, there will be a photo of Zack Snyder. All the pompous slow-motion, the emotional ping-pong of hollow figures and the over-the-top brutality reveal the naked truth. The guy's a pure directorial dickhead. And although he can refocus like he has ADHD, he really can't hide the stupidity. (05/27/2021)

I don't understand what happened to Zack Snyder, a guy who has the brilliant Watchmen and the very good Man of Steel in his filmography and never really burned out creatively until now, to make shit like this. Pathetic, fucking boring and visually repulsive (no, the juicy opening credits and those few Las Vegas green screens don't cut it). It has only one decent action scene – the casino shootout – which doesn't come until half an hour before the end, and one single noteworthy idea, which is the zombie tiger. And leading the uninteresting ensemble of actors is Dave Bautista, whose acting limits end somewhere near Hamáček's abilities when he talks about his disguise maneuver. (05/24/2021)

What happened to the Zack Snyder who gave us Watchmen and Dawn of the Dead? It feels like success went to his head because making a mashup of a zombie massacre with an Ocean’s Eleven-style heist is a pretty wild move—even for a Hollywood director. And if I had to pick someone to pull it off, Zack would’ve been the obvious choice. But the brutally overlong runtime, average performances (even Dave Bautista could’ve been better), and a dull, uninspired script that brings nothing new, made this film a chore to sit through. The relentless action just highlighted how tiresome the whole thing was. I couldn’t help but compare it to Shaun of the Dead, which set the standard for zombie flicks. Army of the Dead lacked tight editing, a solid soundtrack (the ending didn’t save it, even if it was flashy), and, most importantly, a cast you could really root for. (05/25/2021)

An unreasonably overblown runtime and a quantum of Snyder’s love it or hate it style in a solid (read through and through bland) unacknowledged adaptation of “Dead Rising 2”. It actually works quite well as a tired C-rated video game adaptation, but not so well as a zombie heist B-movie that plays with the rules of the genre. It undeniably has its strong moments and scenes (marred by shaky camerawork), but there are fewer than one would expect from the self-proclaimed king of "tinsel cool" on a project where he had a free hand. (05/21/2021)