Walking into the theater, I was already extremely excited. The first scene includes a little girl's lips ripped from her face, and she bites the man. This was after a nice sex scene in the shower and Sarah Polley was the girl. She's not bad, not bad at all. The little girl bites Sarah's husband in the neck. Blood squirts out from his neck until he dies. Sarah barely cries over him because he awakens only seconds after he dies and runs into the bathroom door, where Sarah Polley is hiding. She gets out through the bathroom window.
In her car, she drives and all of these screaming people are asking for help and trying to steal her car. She drives past one man, who hangs on her car door. He is forced off and soon after is hit by a large truck. The coolest shot in the movie is from a helecopter and shows Sarah's car driving down the highway. In the distance there are houses burning and soon enough, my favorite part comes, two cars collide, sliding into a gas station and exploding.
"Dawn of the Dead" was not just a horror movie, but it was a hardcore action movie. It is by far the best film I have seen all year. Stop reading now so you may see this film for yourself, which I will make all of you anyways. First of all, it was a hardcore action movie filled with R rated blood splurtings (I just made that word up) and pretty intense zombie scenes.
Sarah awakens in her car, crashed to a tree. She gets out to a man who says "Say something." This is a cop, played by Ving Rhames. He was pretty badass, and because of this, he was funny. Sarah Polley, as I said, is the lead actress, worried about all of the people. They meet up with Mekhi Phifer and his pregnant wife and another guy, who is just cool. I've never seen him in a movie before, but I like his voice. They all run to the nearest mall, and break in. They go to the roof to ask for help from helecopters above. This is after they meet three mall security guards, one being a guy with an attitude.
This is also after the guy with the nice voice goes looking for zombies in the mall. He guards himself with a crochet mallet, and finds one eating another in a broom closet. He tries to hit it, but is pushed down by it instead. The mallet breaks, leaving a sharp end. He pushes the zombie's neck up and stabs the zombie in the lower chin and up through the top of its head. How awesome.
When they are on the roof, like I mentioned before, they see a truck coming with other survivors. This is another one of my favorite parts. The truck backs up, hitting so many zombies, and when their heads hit the van, blood is splat onto the van.
They are saved.
So more characters come into the movie. They all are living in the mall. So this is the life, right? There are clothes for them, food for them, and entertainment. In an all music scene, there is a couple having sex with new fancy lingerie and there are people changing clothes, and some random dude trying on women's shoes. There is also a kids' clothes shop, which is great for the pregnant lady. As the woman is about to give birth, we notice a bite.
Through this movie we learn a couple things about zombies, first of all, if you are bitten, you will die and become a zombie. If you are shot or stabbed in the head, you will die instantly if you are a zombie. Also, if there are zombies in the area, run to the nearest mall.
The bite on the pregnant lady kills her and the baby is infected too. Mikhy Phifer is turned crazy because he was looking forward so much to having a kid. He dies in a gun fight with an older woman, who also dies. Almost an emotional scene, I'll admit. There were a couple of other emotional scenes that unfortunately didn't get to me.
Ving Rhames, the cop, used a dry erase board to communicate with a man across the street. He wrote on his board: "Hungry," so Ving had to get a plan to help him out. This guy across the street had no lines and was only viewed through binoculars. I thought that was neat. By this point in the movie, the zombie crowd from below was enormous, it looked like some outside concert. Ving and the security guards go to the basement to try to turn the power on, after it had gotten blown out. While doing this, a zombie jumps out of nowhere and bites somebody, who is killed. There is also a dog, but the zombies don't seem to want to bite the dog.
Excellent, send the dog over to the hungry man. When doing this, the man on the radio (who gets to say some lines now) says "Oh man, they sure bite hard." So this means that he is infected. He is turned zombie. The mall people notice he was on the roof of a gun shop. So they go to that building, shooting off any zombie with a shot gun. The gun effects were awesome, the backs of their heads turning into blood on a wall.
Ving, who sees the man who turned zombie says "See ya, brotha," once he is in the gun shop, and shoots him in the head. This takes off half of his head, killing him. They take the dog back to the mall, along with many guns.
Even though this is the life, living in a mall, with all the freedoms in the world, Ving gives a speech about how he said he was sorry whenever somebody died, but he was just acting, he wasn't sorry to all of the people he knew that died. He told his mall friends how "I was just glad that I wasn't dead like they were. But not anymore, I have realized that death is worse than waiting to die."
This speech is something I totally disagree with because, death is just the opposite of living. You have to use your your lifetime to do things, rather than just wait to die. Going out with friends and such, right?
So the mall friends agree that they don't want do die in the mall. Steve, who has been described as "a young Mel Gibson," was a very funny guy. Whenever he opened his mouth, it always sounded funny. The comic relief of this movie was the actors, they played the characters in a funny way. Well, the guys did, the girls cried. Sarah Polley was awesome in the movie though. But anyways, back to Steve, he said that he had a yacht that they could drive to an island. They agreed.
They build a car using a bus to make it armed and dangerous for the zombies. They drove it out of the mall, and into the crowd of zombies. The overhead shot of this scene was awesome. So many zombies were around them, and soon enough, the bus was forced to stop. They couldn't drive through all of these zombies. One of the security guards took out a propane tank, lit it, and sent it out into the crowd of zombies. When it exploded, most of them were taken out. This scene had to of included the most deaths on screen that I have ever seen. It was awesome. HUGE explosion!
So now they were free to drive, they had two buses and used a chainsaw to kill some other zombies through an opening in the bus. They also used barb wire.
They got to the marina, but one of the buses was tipped over because they were going to fast. "DAMN," I yelled out in the theater, "Why, guys?"
The zombies caught up with them and the guy with the cool voice was bitten, but nobody else sees it. One of the security guards is trapped in the bus and is forced to use another propane tank. Huge explosion, but only taking out a couple zombies.
Steve dies her, and Sarah Polley gets his keys to his yacht, and gets back to the bus. At the marina, the guy with the cool voice tells them about it. He can't go, because he was bitten. Sarah cries, but lets him go. A really wide shot shows the boat floating away. The guy with a cool voice takes out a gun.
*Gun Shot*
End of movie. You'll have to see the end credits yourself, because the story actually goes on during the end credits, and what happens is not to be explained here.
I give the movie 4/4 stars, 10/10 stars, and an A+. AWESOME MOVIE! I loved it, and may buy it when it comes out on DVD. I had fun watching it. This weekend, I'll be seeing "The Passion of the Christ," finally. I'll talk about that later.
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