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Good for the Gore
If you look at this like it will be the next Night of the Living Dead you will be sadly disappointed. However, if you are looking for a great gorey flick with non-stop action, you may have found just what you were looking for. I thought the plot was a little weak but the fake gore was nothing below awesome. I was surprised to see Denis Hopper in this among other familiar faces. Compared to most other zombie flicks, this is an extremely cinamatic film. The filming is great. The special features on the DVD are great. My favorite was the making of the gore. They show you the studios where they put together the fake body parts and stuff. It's all really good gross-out stuff. SO remember, don't watch it with great expectations, just watch it as a modern day horror and you'll like it just fine.

Disappointment and dissatisfaction with great concept
As a fan of the zombie genre, this movie had a unique opportunity to deal with not the day in which the world changes, but rather, the aftermath. And instead of giving us a film with such rich dialogue and moments such as Charlton Heston in "The Omega Man" or the Dawn of the Dead remake, or even "Shaun of the Dead" this movie is a c-grade zombie movie with none of the redeeming qualities one has come to expect from the low-budget genre. I'd recommend any uninitiated person to peruse John Carpenter, the king of low-budget horror, or even other zombie movies that are far superior. <
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>Land of the Dead has a lot of props and an obvious larger budget than any of its predecessors, but fails to deliver on several points: the dialogue is completely flat. as some have noted in other reviews, this version just completely lacks any depth to its characters. The lead is so unmemorable that one can, at times, mistake him for the blank slate that is Matthew McConaughey. None of the characters shine, least of all a canned performance by Dennis Hopper. John Leguizamo's character is next to worthless, and the only character one finds entertaining is a truck- the Dead Reckoning. The characters in this movie also act unnaturally, and the "vices" of the city are too much distraction and really not adding anything to the overall movie. This movie is fraught with many such distractions which add almost nothing to the plot, nor to the zombie genre. It'd be best if this one were forgotten or erased from the development, which has seen steady progress with 28 days later's introduction of fast zombies, Dawn of the Dead 2004's high production quality, and other films have made other contributions. <
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>This is a great genre, that demands a better movie than Land of the Dead. - 1 star.