Me and my zombie

Dawn of the Dead (potential spoilers)

The film we were going to see had sold out, so we chose this one instead. Wish we'd gone for Shaun of the Dead now, at least that looks intentionally funny. Avoid like a zombie plague.

Good bits: 'shoot burt reynolds', the sarcastic Steve (who looked as bored as I felt), the third act has plenty of momentum, and isn't actually all that bad.

Bad bits: unsympathetic characters, female lead is practically wallpaper and her romanctic element is pretty poor, gore is funny rather than scary, zombie baby, second act is mind-numbingly boring, all of the shocks can be predicted at least a minute before they happen (standing near a glass door? Gee, I wonder if a zombie's going to jump at the glass from the otherside), zombie baby . . .

If you do choose not to heed my advice, then at least heed this. As soon as the closing credits start -- as soon -- get up and flee the cinema. They've cut the credits with this weird and totally pointless epilogue, that adds nothing to the story, and underlines everything bad about the film you've just watched. It's like the makers wanted to be sure they'd catch all the people who might have, at that point, been thinking to themselves 'That wasn't that bad'. 'Just wait a second,' they say, 'watch this, see what happens to them next. Now you tell me you haven't wasted the last two hours of your life.'

Later . . .