Mediocre acting and a tired plotline ruins what's left of the movie.

| Original Score: D | Sep 11, 2017

[A] respectable update.

| Jan 3, 2011

While it loses the charm of Romero's low-budget clunkiness, it is in all other regards superior.

| Original Score: B- | Jan 3, 2011

If you're looking for a good scare, it delivers big time and, as an added bonus, has a degree of sensibility and depth making it so much more than an average horror movie.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 13, 2010

The incoherence is made all the more disappointing because Eisner displays a great deal of raw talent for the genre's tone and set pieces.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Jul 4, 2010

Unlike Romero's film, what's missing is a trenchant sense of connection to our historical moment.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 3, 2010

It's kind of crazy, but it's also pretty smart. And if your nervous system can stand it, you should see it.

Full Review | Mar 1, 2010

If the subtext's too heavy for you, you can choose to ignore it and instead read The Crazies as a survival guide to what to do when the zombie outbreak hits.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 26, 2010

Most modern horror films are more terrifyingly boring than actually terrifying. What's most effective about The Crazies is that it never drags. It's crazy fun.

| Feb 26, 2010

The blood is certainly convincing these days, but it generally flows only in the safest and most inoffensive, uncontroversial directions.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 26, 2010

It devolves to simple run-and-hide cliches, usually accompanied by jarring musical jolts.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 26, 2010

A tingler that's cynical and cruel -- it takes it for a given that our government would conspire to kill its citizens, even using Holocaust imagery to sharpen its point.

| Original Score: B | Feb 26, 2010

Romero had quite a lot on his mind, back in the day: Vietnam, the Kent State shootings, a wicked distrust of the military and the Man in general. Eisner has almost nothing on his mind.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 26, 2010

If there's a message in all this, it's buried in blood splatter. Which is fine, but makes The Crazies more disappointing than if it had less lofty goals.

| Original Score: C | Feb 26, 2010

The filmmakers seem less clear on what really made those early Romero films great, which is something that, by definition, can't be re-created by any level of loving craftsmanship: They were timely.

| Feb 26, 2010

A testament to the value of understated genre craftsmanship.

| Original Score: B | Feb 26, 2010

A retool in more ways than one, but enjoyable nonetheless.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 26, 2010

Hits the traditional horror buttons, while also showing some scary government genocide.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 26, 2010

Some efficient genre thrills.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 26, 2010

Itâ(TM)s hard to be wowed by films of this stature, especially when there are clichà (C)s at every turn and inconsequential characters crop up so opportunely, but go with it; at very worst itâ(TM)s still fun for the ride.

Full Review | Feb 26, 2010