“Army of the Dead” gets off to a sturdy start as Snyder and scribes Shay Hatten and Jay Harold explain why ghouls galore overrun Sin City. Tough guy David Bautista assembles a team of reckless souls and plunges them into the no-man’s land of Las Vegas after it has become a hot zone to retrieve $200 million from a casino bank vault. Not surprisingly, bare-breasted zombie strippers feast on an ill-fated tourist, but thereafter Snyder doesn’t keeps everybody covered up. Basically, “Army of the Dead” is zombie porn about the undead munch-athon. Formulaic from start to finish, this two-hour & twenty-minute zombie melodrama/ heist film is sure to assuage the cravings of bloodthirsty zombie fans.
Seventy-one percent of Rotten Tomatoes critics have given it positive reviews, while ninety-four percent of audiences have loved it.Ĭoming full circle, Snyder has returned to his roots with Netflix’s “Army of the Dead,” starring David Bautista. Later this summer after its debut on HBO/MAX, “Zack Snyder’s extended cut of Justice League” (2021) will appear on home video. Of course, Snyder reinvented the immortal DC Comics’ characters Superman and Batman in “Man of Steel” (2013), toplining Henry Cavill as the eponymous hero, and then in his notorious “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” (2016), launching Ben Affleck as the Caped Crusader, with Henry Cavill reprising his Superman role.Īfter private tragedies forced him to withdraw from “Justice League” (2017), Marvel guru Joss Whedon finished it. Snyder followed up this seminal classic with his bizarre, animated adventure “Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole” (2010), not exactly kid stuff, before he ventured farther out on a limb with a sinister shoot’em up “Sucker Punch” (2011), featuring Emily Browning, Abbie Cornish, Jena Malone, and Vanessa Hudgens. Afterward, he staged his suspenseful Spartan saga “300” (2006) with Gerard Butler, and then his magnum opus “Watchmen” (2009), with Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Malin Akerman, and Patrick Wilson. Romero’s 1978 classic “Dawn of the Dead,” starring Ving Rhames, Sarah Polley, and Jake Weber. He made his cinematic directorial debut in 2004 with his inspired remake of George A. Writer & director Zack Snyder is no stranger to zombie zagas.
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