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The new Dawn is a "reimagining", like The Thing, The Fly, Invasion of the Body Snatchers or Texas Chainsaw Massacre, in that it takes only a few things from the original and mucks about with the rest. In this case, it's zombies and a mall without the social commentary.
I enjoyed it as a straight out zombie action movie, though the more I think about it, the more I realize that it was a pretty bad movie, especially in comparison to the original. They really shouldn't have bothered doing a "remake" since they didn't do anything interesting with the mall at all. Too many characters, not enough characterization, topped by unbelievably stupid Friday the 13th-style decision making skills. The make-up was boring and there was almost no gore (I'm not a gorehound, but Savini's work on Day showed you could create truly beautiful, yet repulsive, illusions in a zombie flick).
Dawn is probably my least favourite of the Dead trilogy, so it didn't bother me as much as, say, the remake of the 'Saw did. In fact, I'll probably see it again, if only for the beginning, which was quite possibly the first full-on, no-holds-barred, while-it-happens look at what would occur during a zombie attack (Lifeforce is just about as close as I've ever seen that happen previously).
I've only ever seen one zombie flick I didn't like, so please take what I say with a grain of salt. |
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