so
zack snyder's army of the dead has
released on netflix and i have had a
chance to see the film early
i did my review on the film a few days
ago talking about how much i enjoyed
zack snyder's latest film
and there's a lot to unpack surrounding
the plots
the ending the different zombies and
potential
sequels to put it more simply i'm going
to be explaining the plot and
ending for zack snyder's army of the
dead in the aim to help you guys gather
a greater sense of what happened
this analysis will also contain spoilers
so if you do happen to be someone who
hasn't seen the film yet
then i would recommend watching this
video after you've seen it
but if you want to keep up to date on
any of my future content on zack
snyder's latest
film then don't forget to support this
video by giving it a like
rating subscribing to the channel and
turning on your notifications
also feel free to check me out on
twitter facebook reddit and
instagram at cortex videos which is all
linked in the description
but without further ado let's dive into
zack snyder's army of the dead explained
zack snyder's army of the dead begins
exactly how a vegas heist movie set
during a zombie apocalypse
should with a guy getting a blowjob
while driving his car in the nevada
desert
accidentally ramming into a top secret
military convoy
and unleashing the results of a
government project
we get brief shots of what turns out to
be an alpha zombie
ripping through the military one by one
and turning them into the undead
then comes exactly the right opening
credit sequence
that was needed over a richard cheese
and allison crowe cover of viva las
vegas by elvis
swarms of zombie showgirls pageant
queens
elvis impersonators and hotel maids
feast on the people of las vegas as the
music continues the mayhem
accelerates and expands in slow motion
of course
as we are introduced to our main
characters escaping the undead
blowing away zombies and sacrificing
loved ones the military tries to take
control and fails
leading to vegas being bombed with an
improvised set of giant shipping
containers stacked around it
and the city conceding to the undead
we end the opening credits which covers
the first 15 minutes of the film
perfectly
and in the next hour or so we begin to
get some character development and
team building scott ward played by dave
bautista
a mercenary soldier now working at a
grill in a dead-end diner
is enlisted by a mysterious billionaire
played by hiroyuki sonada
to go back into las vegas break into a
vault under a casino
and retrieve the money in there there is
over 200 million dollars in the vault
and alongside scott being offered 50
million dollars
all the members of the team would
receive different amounts based on their
position
and their circumstance think of it as
the cast of a production
being on the different amounts for their
varying roles
one added complication about the mission
however
is that the us military has decided to
nuke the city on the upcoming 4th of
july holiday
so scott and whoever he brings along
basically has one day to accomplish
all of this so scott and his old pal
crews
start assembling a team in a suicide
squad kind of way
the group includes among others a
traumatized buzzsaw toting badass played
by amari hardwick
a brilliant but inexperienced german
safecracker
played by mafia schweinhofer a
wisecracking helicopter pilot
played by tig nataro a youtube star
famous for his zombie killing videos
played by raul castillo and a stoic
french coyote
lily played by nora arnezida who has
experience of leading groups of
renegades back into
and out of the undead city joining in at
the last minutes
are a corporate overseer martin played
by garrett dillahunt
and kate ward played by ella pernell who
is scott's semi-estranged daughter
he still has unresolved issues with her
as soon after the apocalypse started
he was forced to stab her zombie mother
in the brain
also while most of the group has taken
on the mission for the financial
windfall it would bring
there are those among them who have a
different agenda
and it's these latter individuals who
set the stage for the movie's violence
action-packed ending
but after bringing together the team the
initial scenes of the gang's
entry into las vegas offer promise with
snyder developing
interesting spins on familiar zombie
tropes
surrounding vegas is a quarantine area
filled with refugees living in tents who
seem to be stuck in a bureaucratic no
man's land
preyed upon by craven guards once we're
inside vegas for the majority of the
film
we are introduced to a zombie tiger
roaming the devastated streets
giant piles of desiccated zombies
clutter the place on entry 2
having been left in the sun too long but
we're told they'll come back to life
if it rains vegas it seems is controlled
by a hierarchy of the undead
the shamblers who make up the mindless
cannon fodder swarms
are ruled by a group of alphas who are
smarter
faster and hotter than your average
brain-eating corpse
the alphas can be kept at a distance
somewhat
by making them a human offering the
craven guard that comes in with the
group
is offered by lily to the alpha zombie
queen
and from here the team make their way
towards their first destination behind
the walls
this involves a scene of the characters
navigating a building
filled with hibernating zombies who
sleep standing up
and it is a wonderfully tense moment
during the scene
samantha wins lesser-known character
chambers
gets killed by the shamblers which
mainly happened due to garrett
dillahunt's operative
leading her in the wrong direction so
already
we have a threats and characters who are
pushing their own agendas
during this whole situation after some
brilliant scenes such as the alphas
turning the craven guard into an alpha
himself
and other demonstrations of their
threats a majority of the mercenaries
managed to make it to the casino
where the money awaits yet several
things happen once they get there
that make their job much harder first
martin who joined the team at the
instance of blyton arca
the mastermind behind the heist beheads
the queen of the intelligent alpha
zombies
when the zombie king zeus learns what's
happened he declares war on the humans
and he and the rest of the alpha zombies
make their way to the casino with the
goal of killing the whole team
second the team learns that the
government has moved up the nuclear
strike on las vegas
that will level the city and wipe out
the zombie threat and
anything else that happens to be there
this leaves the team with only an
hour to crack the vault get the money
and get out of vegas
and third the vastly more limited time
causes kate ward
to leave for the hotel where the alpha
zombies reside
to rescue her friend gita so although
ludwig the team
safecracker manages to open the hotel's
complex safe
the group's celebrations are short-lived
when scott realizes his daughter is gone
he and his longtime friend cruz decide
to go find her
but when the elevator out of the vault
opens it shockingly reveals a group of
angry zombies
they snap cruz's neck and set upon the
others
and scott's buddy van der rohe who
prefers to dispatch zombies with a
circular saw
takes on the king and is losing badly so
ludwig who's bonded with van der rohe
over the course of the mission
pushes van der rohe into the safe and
shuts the door
as the zombies pull him away meanwhile
martin
and the coyote lily take an alternative
route out of the basement
but instead of letting her out with him
martin closes the door to the exit
trapping the others in the basement he
gleefully
informs lily at this point that all
tanaka was ever interested in
was retrieving the head of the alpha
zombie which martin bagged earlier
as he can make money by creating more
zombies and
experiment on them however martin soon
gets what he deserved
as when he flees across the hotel's
driveway he checks the bag where he
stored the queen's head
only to discover that lily has replaced
the head
with a cash counting machine he's then
attacked by the zombie tiger who plays
with
martin before biting his head off it's a
funny sequence but one that in the case
of martin
is fully deserved meanwhile lily uses
van der rohe's sword to create an
exit out of the basement and she scott
and zombie killing expert guzman reach
the floor of the casino
where they confront more zombies their
fight seems to be going well
but they're outmatched and guzman is
soon overwhelmed
recognising his fate is sealed he
detonates a grenade killing himself
and many of the zombies with him this
ultimately gives scott
and lily time to make it to the roof
where pilot peters
is still attempting to get the rusty
helicopter working
the king follows them there and when
lily notices him
she urges scott to go while she takes on
the zombie herself
she baits the king with the head of the
queen and when the
enraged zombie impels her on the side of
the hotel's roof she drops the queen's
head to the ground
destroying it luckily this gives peters
enough time to get the helicopter
working
and she takes off with scott even though
there are only minutes to spare before
the nuclear bomb drops
scott asks her to go to the hotel where
kate is retrieving
gita kate is trying to lead gita out of
the hotel while taking on a horde of
zombies
when scott shows up and rescues both of
them he leads them to the roof
and they get in the helicopter but the
king arrives at this moment too
they fly off but the king jumps into the
helicopter
knocking it off balance the helicopter
swerves as scott fights the king
and the king bites scott moments before
he manages
to dispatch him the helicopter is only
slightly outside of las vegas when the
nuclear bomb hits the city
and the blast causes the helicopter to
crash killing
peters and gita and knocking kate out
but when kate rises to her feet after
the crash
she finds scott and he gives her the
last few thousand dollars
he managed to save from the heist and
then unfortunately dies
as he starts to come back as a zombie
kate tearfully is faced with no other
option
but having to shoot him in the head as a
dark parallel to scott having to kill
her mother
in the flashback scene we got earlier
while this seems to wrap up
all the action in las vegas there's
still one loose
end in van der hoe apparently the safe
van der hoe was locked in
survive the nuclear blast as he emerges
from it a short time later
hauling the money he rents a private
plane but during the flight he begins to
feel sick
he excuses himself and goes to the
bathroom where he discovers a zombie
bite on his
arm as the plane starts its descent into
mexico city
van der hoe realizes he's about to
become a zombie
likely just in time to start infecting
others
and ensuring there's an opportunity for
a mexico city set
army of the dead sequel we'll have to
see where this goes
if they make an army of the dead too but
we do have the army of thieves prequel
coming
soon and that will dive deeper into van
der hoe's developed friend and
safecracker
ludwig but that was my video
explaining the plot and ending of zack
snyder's army of the dead
i hope this did help some of you guys
understand the events a bit better
and i'm looking forward to hearing what
else you picked out in the film
so don't forget to let me know down
below in the comment section
i will also be doing a video essay on
the film next week
and potentially doing an upload on what
we could see in a sequel
if it happens so look out for whenever i
post
for more videos on zack snyder's army of
the dead then subscribe to the channel
and
turn on your notifications also if you
enjoyed this video
remember to leave a like rating and
follow me
on social media via the links in the
description
but anyway i hope you guys enjoyed it
i've been cortex
and as always make some noise
[Applause]
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
you