by First up I just want to point out that I rented this movie on Amazon Prime for $5 and it said “HD” yet I still couldn’t see or hear shit and I feel scammed. I get that this movie is from 2002 but that isn’t even that old, I’ve seen much older movies with much clearer visuals and sound, maybe it’s the British accent ? Oh well, great movie. The plot is pretty standard for this type of movie, it doesn’t really reinvent the wheel. It’s a zombie movie, but it shines in other ways. I love the attention to detail, I love how zombies are actually threatening in this, they run. This is prior to World War Z, this wasn’t a thing back in 2002. I love how Brendan Gleeson (or whatever his character’s name was) has the dumbest death of all time, and that when Jim goes back to the roadblock later in the movie, the zombie’s corpse still shows up in the background. The romance is extremely surface level but it makes a lot of sense in a setting this gloom, they just try to find joy where it’s available (and I suppose the soldiers also get that part…). Solid. Also yes, I’m planning to watch the other movies.
