Ving Rhames In The Film Day Of The Dead

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After hearing about how awful this film was from friends and reading the reviews I wasn't optimistic entering this film. Sadly this film lived up to my abysmal exceptions, even though it sports a number of actors that I really do enjoy. Ving Rhames makes a return to the series, though this time he's playing Captain Rhodes. He's joined by Mena Suvari, and AnnaLynne McCord, who blew me away with her performance in Excision. Though even with all these excellent performers, Day of the Dead manages to be bland and generic. A poor job that doesn't live up to the original in a single aspect.

Day of the Dead opens with a group of kids, Trevor Bowman (Michael Welch), his girlfriend Nina (AnnaLynne McCord), his friend Kyle (Hugh Skinner) along with …show more content…

Ving Rhames especially, as his Rhodes comes off far more like-able than Joseph Pilato's rendition. Though here the character fills a very different role. Ok, I also liked Mina Suvari and Stark Sands chemistry on …show more content…

The zombies in this film are uninteresting and bland. Something I didn't know zombies could be. I think its because they come off more as mutated people then they do the undead. My biggest peeves steam from Zombie Rhodes eating his own eye and the Zombies eat another Zombie. Which is a first for me as one of the generic zombie rules is that zombies don't eat their own. They eat us.

The effects are done in a clunky CGI, which doesn't do this film any favors. This Day of the Dead could have taken some pointers from the 1985 version in regards to effects. Since out of the two, with over twenty years of technological advancement this version look by far the worst.

Final thoughts, it's awful and lives up to its poor reputation. I can understand why this film was straight to video and I can't honestly suggest to anyone. As a fan of the zombie genre, this one nearly put me to sleep. Which is something a zombie film shouldn't do. Because even with all the action going on on-screen, Day of the Dead still managed to be boring.

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