Army of the Dead [Movie Review]

Army of the Dead [Movie Review] | As a moviegoer, every new movie on Netflix gets me excited. And now with MCO in place where almost everywhere is closed, that feeling is amplified by 100X whenever a new movie drops in Netflix.

After seeing the trailer, I was so looking forward to watching this one. 

SYNOPSIS

Army of the Dead (2021) Trivia

• Starring: Dave Bautista, Elle Purnell, Omari Hardwick, Ana de la Reguera, Theo Rossi, Matthias Schweighofer, Nora Arnezeder, Hiroyuki Sanada, Tig Notaro, Raul Castillo, Huma Qureshi, Garret Dillahunt 
• Directed by: Zack Snyder

• Produced by: Deborah Snyder, Wesley Coller, Zack Snyder

• Production companies: The Stone Quarry
• Distributed by: Netflix

• Release date: May 14, 2021

• Running time: 148 minutes
• Budget: $70 - 90 million
• Rating: R (for strong bloody violence, gore and language throughout, some sexual content and brief nudity/ graphic nudity)

• Country: United States
• Language: English

• Tomatometer: 72%
• Metascore: 57%
• IMDb: 7.2/10

• Netflix took over the project from Warner Bros and began filming in 2019 with a budget up to $90 mill. 
• The movie was filmed in the former Atlantic Club Casino Hotel in Atlantic City which has been closed since January 2014. 
• This is Snyder's second zombie apocalyptic horror project since Dawn of the Dead (2004). However, this is not a follow up to the 2004 project. 
• Dave turned down an offer to appear in The Suicide Squad to work on this one. 

When a US Military convoy transporting an unknown package collides with a car and releases the package, little did they know that the package will alter the world. Inside the container is a zombie with super- ability - fast, able to think and very strong. After killing the convoy and infecting two of them, the trio heads to Las Vegas and causes a devastating zombie outbreak. 

Fails to contain the outbreak, the government quarantines the city by building a tall wall, containing the undead, known as shamblers inside the city. 

When the president decides to nuke the city to rid of all the shamblers, Mr Tanaka, a casino owner approaches Scott, a former mercenary and offers him a job to steal some $200 million from his casino vault before the nuke event. After selecting his crew, he seeks help from his estranged daughter, Kate who works at a quarantine camp to introduce him to a smuggler that's familiar with Las Vegas. Kate introduces him to Lily and wants nothing to do with her father.

But her decision change when she learns that Geeta, her friend is lost somewhere inside Las Vegas and her two kids are alone waiting for Geeta at the camp. 

Entering the city and meeting with Valentine, a zombie tiger, the group learns that there is a group of the intelligent zombies known as Alphas that is running the city. And if the group wants a safe passage into the casino, they need to give an offering to the Alphas. Lily quickly decides that Burt, a volunteer at the camp that rapes women is the right sacrifice. 

An Alpha female known as the Bride takes Burt to her leader, Zeus where Zeus infects him.

Lily tells the group that it is safer to travel from buildings to building rather than walking out in the open. She leads them into a building full of 'sleeping' normal zombies. One mistaken step by a group member awakens the herd and she becomes another sacrifice to the zombies, after her gas tank was shot at by one of the members in the crew.

While the others are cracking the safe and preparing for their safe journey home, Lily and Martin were instructed to stay watch outside the casino. Instead, Martin lures the Bride and beheads her before taking the head home as a 'token'. 

Later Zeus finds the corpse of the Bride and instruct his army to attack the casino. 

Meanwhile, Kate is gone and everybody is fighting to just stay alive and getting home safely. 

Will they be able to return home safely with the money?

MY REVIEW

Plot: 3.9/ 5.0 I love the opening credit of the movie - it was a great backstory explaining the zombie apocalypse. 

Then it gets kinda slow - with boring scripts and lots of one-liners. 

Was it a great movie? Nope - I would say that that the Walking Dead has better plot than this one. 

Was it a boring movie? If not for the action scenes, yes, it would be a snooze fest for me. At times, I find myself playing games on my mobile while watching the movie. 

Cast: 3.8/ 5.0 Not a great cast I would say. Or was it because of the not-so-great script and lots of one-line scripts. 

Will I watch it again: No, thanks. 

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