![]() So why mention the Bourne Identity at all? Because WWZ is undoubtedly part of its legacy. It suited the insidious nature of the threat, the assassin amongst the grasses, but this is the zombie apocalypse, a very different beast. Despite the enormity of their terror and absurdity of what was occurring, understated worked. Matched only in its understated sincerity by the inane smile on a dying killer’s lips. The panicked surrender of Eamon as his gut fears are realised and there is nothing he can do, cannot shout, cannot strike, but must simply obey and hope. What it failed to give us was those fine brush strokes, the striking robotic quality of Bourne’s fighting, the look of surprise widening his eyes as though he couldn’t quite explain how the gun ended up in his hands either. When examined on the microscopic scale of your average 32” tv, those panorama’s won’t be quite so sweeping, the anthill will be.an anthill and the dialogue not so much minimal as missing. It’s nailed the minimal dialogue, grey air, occasionally switched up with sepia – cause you know, this is internationally sombre – and the fuzzy reel of global news reports, but what you will remember this for is the swarming anthill of zombies surging up and over the wailing wall, the passenger plane ripped apart mid- air, bodies live and undead tumbling out, the sweeping panorama of a world slowly overrun and beginning to self- destruct one mushroom cloud at a time. ![]() And despite its pretensions to be the serious zombie-pocalypse, this is pure spectacle with just enough story to hang it all together. Once it has passed from big screen to small (ish), in the comfort and security of your own living room, minus all those shifting shadowy strangers and without the scale and popcorn, I suspect the flaws in this film will become glaring.īecause the small screen needs small touches. It managed to hold my attention, difficult these days, gave me a few jumps and of course there is Brad, who apparently manages to make eye-bags sexy. so for all you normal folk, this doesn’t suck. Taken as an average cinema goer, which excludes fussy film anoraks such as myself, zombie-flicks aficionados and all who have read Max Brooks’ novel upon which this is based. It didn’t make me zzzzzzzz… which considering Man of Steel did inclines me to be kind. Left it up for those who still haven’t seen it) *SPOILERS* (or at least when I first posted they were. ![]()
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