By M
This movie is incredibly bad. It’s like a stew: everything is dropped into a cooking pan and then someone prays for it to be eatable. It isn’t.
The question they ask is: what would be relevant information in case the world is threatened to become a zombie heaven? The answer they give is: absolutely everything. I mean, that answer is certainly the right answer, the problem is that if you want to discuss that issue in a two-hour long movie you are in trouble, and by trouble I mean you just signed up for catastrophe.
I was about to write: the movie is full of cliches, but the truth is that it would be inaccurate to say that. The movie isn’t full of cliches, the movie is only made of cliches. Subtle difference. Very dangerous, simplistic and essentializing cliches on gender, countries, history, you name it! They even include cliches on the internal fights between international organizations.
I give you that when one reads the synopsis of this movie what I am saying doesn’t exactly come as a surprise. Except there are two important parameters that make this movie, a priori, worth seeing.
First, the fact that Brad Pitt so fiercely defended it. I mean, I thought the guy was not only a good actor but also a smart person. I respect him. Of course this might be based on very weak reasons such as the fact that he worked with Terrence Malick or that he divorced Jennifer Aniston for Angelina Jolie: two decisions that I would have made myself.
Second, the trailer. Honestly, the trailer suggests that there is a treatment of the human body, objectified at the extreme, that seemed extremely interesting. And to be perfectly fair, there sort of is some of that in the movie, but it is so deeply drowned in the stupid lessons on “history”, “learning” and “weaknesses” that you barely see it. A shame.
To balance a bit this post, I must say that the zombies are funny enough. Their scariest move is to chatter their teeth. I acknowledge that’s hilarious. But that’s pretty much it.
Do not watch it, no matter what, not even if it’s the last sequence of images available on earth.
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