Movies & TV

I don't hate it but there's barely anything new and interesting here. Making the zombies into a formidable army is a cool gimmick but the characters are all weak retreads of archetypes that we have been so familiar with over the years.

Plenty of violence and action sequences but the film does not manage to shine through these bloody artistic gorefest scenes, are it's core it feels tired and derivative.

This is also a particular nuisance for me since movies that just want to have a bit of fun usually make up a cast of "bad" characters and put them through a ridiculous plot. Supposedly, it's fun to see these people die because of their awful behaviour and decisions. Unfortunately "Abigail" was not a lot of fun for me and neither was this, maybe the subgenre just doesn't work for me.

The only thing worse that Army of the Dead does than Abigail is that it pretends it's characters are actual human beings with real stories while putting them through obscenely stupid scenarios that no real human being would go through.

I like the political commentary in this movie, the subtle hints/parallelism towards racism is very interesting and cool but those hints and subtle cues go extinct as soon as the movie really starts, and from there it's just... boring.