Survival of the Dead Reviews
Filme mais ou menos, o roteiro é fraco, as cenas são mais ou menos, o elenco é mais ou menos, e ninguém ajuda a melhorar o filme, a história é fraca, e o filme deveria ter cenas bem melhores e mais relevantes, para fazer o filme ser bom.
In many ways, Survival of the Dead marks a return to Romero's low-budget B-movie roots for his untimely swansong, one that I certainly enjoyed more than his previous venture. There's a real down-and-dirty simplicity to this one, rapidly paced with buckets of gore and absurdist glee, a neo-western zombie fable with a group of good ol' Irish lads pulling the ultimate Hail Mary. The film certainly isn't without a sense of humour, several jokes and a multitude of kills had me chuckling quite a bit, it just lacks a lot of Romero's sharp satire and is more a cerebral means of cinematically satiating one's wanton bloodlust. Philosophical discussions are brief, to the point and rife with real-world applications as the zombies keep coming. Romero sticks to the traditional zombie shuffle, with herds approaching in slow but determined motion. In keeping with the puckish touch for which he is justly renowned, our motley band find a few new and ingenious ways to dispose of them when ammo runs low, including discovering a new way to light a cigar that is both visually lovely, viscerally disturbing and thematically piquant. Romero's direction is clean if unmemorable, the writing is sly although treading on old ground and the performances are solid from all involved. Survival of the Dead works on every level for which it aims and without shortchanging any of them offering a reasonably entertaining variation on a familiar theme, although it lacks the inspiration that would make it stand as an original in its own right.
There's something missing ok, but still very interesting story, there are a lot of cool themes, and it's kinda cool to see a "Shakespearean" inside the twisted world of George A. Romero.
Its kind of a western (yes its set on an Island off the coast of Delaware with a bunch of Irishmen, but it fits with that genres typical themes), and an action comedy, and a zombie/horror film. The point is that its just got too much going on to totally work.
Just an ok zombie. There was a lot of zombie attacks and killings. Once again though the ending was kind of iffy.
I think if I'm being fair this is the worst Romero zombie movie. It's not remotely scary and the characters were incredibly simplistic and dumb. Just as it has been for the last two Romero zombie movies before this, the social commentary here is way too on the nose. There was quite literally a narrator in the final scene stating what the message of the movie was. I commend Romero for trying something new with the genre (as he did with all 6 of these movies), but this story/plot was just poorly executed. The direction felt uninspired, the music seemed odd, and even the editing felt off. It was hard to tell what was even happening at times in the third act simply due to confusing and choppy editing. I will say that while this is objectively the worst Romero zombie flick, I was actually more entertained by it than Diary of the Dead. Whereas Diary was bland, dimly lit and boring, Survival is brighter and has more character to it. It's a little bit quirky and some of the characters may be incredibly stupid but that stupidity makes them mildly entertaining in an almost comedic kind of way. There is also some creativity with the zombie kills in this movie, even if they come off silly and don't always look the best. Sadly, Romero's final movie reminds us that we've dropped a far way off from his original trilogy.
The Only true sequel in of the dead series is interesting but as George Romero's last movie it's a major disappointment
George A. Romero lost his touch in his later years. A zombie movie where the zombies aren't scary and the humans act like idiots.
The Worst of the Living Dead Movies
Survival of the dead is probably one of the weakest entries in George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead series for many reasons, the plot twists are unrealistic, the acting is terrible, and the visual effects have gotten worse. I would not recommend this movie to anyone.
After the abysmal Diary Of The Dead the once mighty George Romero gives us one last rotten fart of a zombie movie with his by thus point badly done social commentary. The plot is worse. It's about these 2 warring families that share the same island and they keep the undead family near by because, well, they needed a reason for zombies to be on an otherwise uninhabited island. Nothing serves as particularly memorable or thought provoking like his superb original trilogy or even his mediocre Land Of The Dead. A slight improvement over Diary Of The Dead but that's not saying much. You're better off watching another better zombie movie like 28 Days Later or his original Dead movies.
This is unfairly maligned. Hell, even by myself. I used to discredit this as trash and sad way to end a great man's career. But doing so ignores the good it has going for it, namely the ideas, the debates on society all these Romero films feature. Plus there's a good bit of humor. It's not nearly as bad as people try to make it.
it doesn't live up to some of the better chapters of the series, but it is entertaining and shows flashes of what made the series a classic.
Very uninspired directing but extremely entertaining with good zombie kills!
This movies starts out OK, but quickly descents into nonsensical nonsense. The plot is frankly ridiculous and almost semms like a parody of the zombie genre. The CGI is embarrassingly bad.
Personally Geroge A. Romero made my all time favorite zombie movie (dawn of the dead) but he somehow made a uninspired and boring movie with his creation. I would recommend most of his fantastic movies but this is not a recommendation. This movie lacks in originality, unique storytelling, good characters, distasteful look, bad action ect. and turns into a bland and boring experience. I love Geore A. Romero's works, but this is definitely a miss for him.
Ultimo film di Romero sugli zombie e anche della sua carriera. Non il migliore ovviamente, ma nemmeno il peggiore, Land of the Dead lo ritengo nettamente inferiore. La storia segue le vicende dei 4 soldati che nel film precedente avevano derubato i ragazzi. A livello di trama è un discreto film, si segue tranquillamente; la fotografia è di buon livello, l'ho gradita. Ricorre il tema della lotta tra gli uomini nonostante la morte cammini sulla terra. Proprio i morti alla fine del film iniziano a nutrirsi anche di animali, aprendo a una "possibile" convivenza con gli umani. Non il miglior modo per chiudere una grande carriera e soprattutto per concludere un filone di film così importante. C'è di peggio.