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elliott back again with a brand new
netflix movie review and today's a big
one i'm really excited to talk about
this film this is the new zack snyder
zombie action
heist film by the name of army of the
dead i'm really excited to share with
you all my pros my cons my overall
thoughts my score and let you know if
it's worth checking out in the
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and once you've sat down and watched
zach's slanted army of dead let's talk
about it your pros your cons
what were some of your favorite moments
some of your favorite characters what
was your favorite zombie kill
and what is what do you hope to see in
the future of this franchise because we
already got an announcement for
a live action movie we got an animation
movie and then there may be some
spin-offs and sequels in the future so
let me know your excitement level there
and of course in the comments let's talk
about zombies let me know your favorite
zombie film
that you have seen and what is your
favorite zack snyder film let's discuss
it in the comments below so army and
there for me
really hyped for really loved the
trailer i am a zack snyder fan
i was so happy to see him getting back
to the genre that kicked off his career
dawn the dead is one of my favorite
zombie films of all time and when just
speaking of zombies
zack snyder and zombies are like peanut
butter and jellies like pizza and wings
they just fit so perfectly together
and here we are discussing his next film
and army in the dead starting off with
the positives let's start off with the
dead let's talk about the dead hair a
little bit before we get to the living
listen zack snyder is doing some things
with these zombies
that i've never seen before now to be
fair i've seen zombies communicate with
each other
in previous films you know i've seen
zombies you know move a certain way and
things that nature but
not like this not not with that zack
snyderisms
that we see with these zombies and i
won't give too much away but you already
seen the trailer they can communicate
with each other which was pretty cool to
see
but there's also some things in regards
to the action that i've never seen
zombies do and there are you know let's
just say what do zombies do when they're
not hunting and eating people well
you can see a little bit of that in this
film and i won't give too much away
there but the zombies were so badass
they were not only intelligent but they
were terrifying at points especially
these particular designers i want to
highlight these two zombies here
starting off with the queen zombie the
bride zombie
played incredibly by this this actress
who just
really embodies this type of presence of
like a queen that you don't want to mess
with but also very terrifying and does
some really awesome things in this movie
and i thought she was fantastic but also
the king zombie who
went by the name of zeus now this zombie
here is a badass guys he
has some things that he does in his film
emotionally speaking that i've never
seen a zombie do before and again what
do zombies do
when they're not eating human beings
well again
zeus and the brides and the others on
this film they they show you what they
do when they're off time and it was
pretty incredible
uh just the concept again what zack
snyder comes up with with the zombies in
this film was absolutely fantastic but
again just highlighting the dead
those two zombies both alpha zombies the
bride and zeus the king were fantastic i
thought they were incredible zombies and
again guys once you see this film
i can see the cosplay right now of the
bride and also zeus those those two
characters were fantastic and it's just
crazy to speak of
zombies in a film like highlighting
zombies again trina bustan
dawn of the dead the rain room you know
all the stuff i've i love zombies right
i'm a big fan of the genre but
they don't normally have like a a
storyline right like the zombies have a
storyline in this film there's like
emotional moments for the zombies
there's like action-packed moments for
the zombies they have their own
characteristics which is just really
cool to say so
for my zombie fans out there you will
not be disappointed in the dead
in the zombies in this movie but let's
transition to talking about
the living starting off with the lead of
this film played by dave batista who
i'm very impressed by dave bautista just
seeing how he was able to carve out his
career he doesn't just want to be
typecasted and yes he's
he has physicality he has some action
moments in this movie as scott ward the
lead
of this group that's going to get the
money but also try to keep themselves
alive going to las vegas
he's badass and especially once
something happens in his mail
this movie where he he kicks into like a
rambo mode and i love that but
just speaking to dave batista as an
actor and speaking to the more
vulnerable side of him as an actor as
scott ward
a man with a troubled past he has a
relationship a fractured relationship
with his daughter uh
kate in this film and you find out what
happened to them in the past and kind of
creates this friction
but at the end of the day he has motives
he has a reason why he wants to get this
money
uh for you know reasons that kind of
supports his family but at the same time
he has dreams and goals of
having a food truck and all that stuff
so it's the warmth that i really enjoyed
as well as the badassery that we get
with uh dave bautista as scott that i
really appreciate it but
listen i love dave bautista he is the
star of this movie but i think there are
several stars in this movie and in
particular three of them that it's like
a three-way tie that steal
every single scene that they're in
starting off with amari hartwick which i
never watch powers it's been on my
bucket list but i've seen him in other
supporting roles in a couple leading
roles in the early 2000s and throughout
his career
amari hartwick was a nvp in this film
for me as
van he's the uh the soldier but also a
philosopher
he has some of the best lines some of
the best moments some of the best kills
him in that chainsaw which i wish was a
little bit more involved in the action
later on the film but
who knows what the future holds for that
character i'll just say that but i
thought he was fantastic and speaking of
fantastic
his back and forth with this character
by the name of dieter played by a new
actor i've never been exposed to this
actor before
matthias tricolfer if i might be
pronouncing that wrong but
fun little fact this actor will be
directing
the prequel coming out i think next year
on netflix by the name of army of
thieves which i can't wait for
especially after seeing dieter in this
film he was amazing guys he was so funny
he is the safe cracker of the group he's
the ocean's 11 heist aspect of the film
i thought that his banter between him
and van was fantastic i was like
emotionally invested in the kind of
brotherhood that they kind of developed
within this film they have a great
emotional payoff in this film i thought
those two were fantastic they're back
and forth and then particularly
again this dieter character which i
can't wait to see his prequel that he's
going to be directing and also starring
in
i'm a big fan of this actor i love that
zack snyder always brings these new
actors to the table
uh and i thought that that actor was
incredible but i can't leave out my
through i said a three-way tie as far as
my favorite characters
the character by the name of lily who is
also known as the coyote
nora armaziter never seen her before but
i want to see more of her i want to see
her in more zack snyder films i want to
see her more tv shows just more
things of her because i thought that she
has this type of presence her
french accent was just eloquently a
place of the film
i thought she was an incredible
character to not give too much away by
coyote but she's a
she's the one she's the the tour guide
let's just say of this film and she also
knows a lot about the zombies
i spoke about prequels give me a prequel
give me some spin-offs give me some more
of this character in this universe
because she was fantastic
again those are my three favorite
characters they were incredible
and i hope and i can't wait to see more
of them in the future but also want to
give a shout out to
mikey guzman who is the sharpshooter the
influencer on social media accounts i
thought he was really awesome but also
his friend
chambers who was played by samantha
nguyen
she has one of my favorite scenes in
this film she was a badass character as
well as guzman but she was incredible
chambers
if we get those prequels i hope she can
make some type of spin-off with that
character again these their
characters are so rich they're so much
fun they're so badass and they're so
awesome
but those were some of my favorite
characters in the film no doubt but
those characters have to be directed
there's a leader in this film
and that's the man behind the camera uh
and that is zack snyder ladies and
gentlemen zack slander is having fun
i'm so happy to see him you know not
even bringing up the wb stuff but it's
just you can tell when
i'm as i mentioned i'm a fan of zack
snyder you can tell he's having fun with
this
whether it be his interviews he's doing
marking this film talking about his film
whenever you know he would talk about it
you can see the smile in his eyes a
glimmer in his eyes you can see the
energy the fun
the happiness being brought back in this
film by zack snyder he is an
action genius the action sequences were
fantastic
the world building's there the
excitement's there the zombies are
badass i mentioned it a couple months
ago when i reviewed zack snyder's
justice league and i've always thought
this about zach if there is an
ounce of badassery and characters he's
gonna bring every single ounce of that
out and he does so much in this film
there are so many payoffs in this film
he is a fan
pleaser and i'll just say this i won't
describe the scene but there's a
character in this movie who we're
supposed to hate he does something
pretty bad and you just like oh i hope
this character get what he deserves
and he does and sometimes when you get
that in films they cut away from it
right
but there's a moment in this movie i
won't say who the character is or where
it takes place but there's a moment
where a character does something
despicable
and there's a moment where he gets what
he deserves and zack snyder gives it all
to us and it's just like yes yes
so crowd please again zack snyder knows
how to make the crowd happy i was very
very very happy to see zack snyder being
happy being
in the zombie world and having a good
time so i really applaud zack snyder's
direction
he also was a cinematographer he also
came up the story this was his baby and
i'm so glad that he was able to bring
this to life
also i want to give a quick shout out to
uh junkie xl i thought the score was
really great
and i just had a fun time there's a lot
of fun incredible entertaining moments
in this film but with
all that great stuff going on i do have
some criticisms that i want to
transition into and these are just the
minor things i'm going to start off with
the smaller things first on my list here
number one i mentioned that zack snyder
is the
the cinematographer of this film he's a
great cinematographer he has a great eye
for action and sets up his shots really
well but there were some moments and
zack snyder does this a lot
there's like a lot of blurry shots in
this film which are intentional to kind
of set the mood introduce new characters
kind of disoriented the
the audience while they're watching it
but there was like way too many blurry
shots for me that was just like this is
like kind of hurting my eyes
minor thing doesn't take away any points
but something that i want to kind of
note that there's
too many blurry shots for me zach but
nonetheless a couple other things on my
list that are just minor some of the
comedy didn't work
we have the the helicopters who was the
the comedic moments of the film and most
of her jokes were funny but some of the
jokes didn't always land
again comey is very subjective there was
a character that i wanted some more from
and that's maria who we
see her in her in the opening which was
badass which by the way i didn't mention
that
the opening all zack snyder films open
fantastically and this is another one to
put in the resume this opening is
fantastic and you see maria being a
badass
but not so much in the the meat and
potatoes of the film i wanted more from
that character because she seemed to be
really awesome but we don't really
she's really there to kind of spark
something for her character and that's
really kind of it for her so it's kind
of unfortunate because i thought
we wouldn't get more from that character
but i mentioned how badass the alpha
zombies were
just in general designs are pretty cool
you see them do some things that you've
never seen before but
the secondary the you know the the the
minions of a sword those zombies weren't
as menacing as i wish they would have
been
sort of in the vein of a trainer boston
type of zombies they were just kind of
you know they were just there they
didn't feel that that intimidating for
me personally
and then last thing that i have on my
minor list is the run time it's almost
two and a half hours
it easily could have been about 10
minutes shaved off this film and i'll
get to those 10 minutes here in a bit
but
again the run time is a little bit along
the tooth and there are some moments
that could have been completely taken
out in the film so those are the minor
things
don't really uh affect my score too much
but getting into the big things that
didn't
really sit well with me in this film my
main issue with this movie
and this is a the heart of the film this
is a big plot of the film
it's a relationship between scott and
his daughter kate not getting to the
reasons why
but i didn't believe the relationship i
didn't feel for the relationship i
didn't really care for their
relationship
and it more plays so to the actress that
plays
kate i don't like to single out uh
actors and extras in roles but i just
didn't buy into her her
performance in this role i just didn't
buy it like i said i didn't buy into a
relationship with her dad
which plays a little bit into the
direction i don't think the
dave batista the warmth was there the
caring father was there but again it
wasn't just recep
precipitated from his counterpart in his
daughter i just didn't believe in a
relationship i
felt more uh connected to
van and dieter's relationship and their
emotional payoff more so i did with kate
and scott so their relationship
father and daughter didn't really work
for me emotionally because this
had relies heavily on the relationship
in the film and it just didn't resonate
with me personally
which again just kind of speaks to kate
as a character
she feel she didn't feel needed i know
the point in the character
you know but how she gets involved in
the film her kind of
finding a mcguffin of sorts in a
particular character
that payoff to me just fell flat it
really didn't even go anywhere her whole
motives of why she wants to get involved
in this heist just
didn't work for me again the cake
character was my least favorite
character and i hate to say that because
i know
what zack was going for i know what the
story was kind of implementing in
regards to
just you know how people can fight for
one another and care for another another
and the relationship between a father
and daughter is great to see
but it just didn't work for me and it
mainly speaks to me not being a big fan
of the character kate
and then last but not least on kind of
one of my other issues
there are men i mentioned that it could
have been about 10 to maybe 15 minutes
shorter there are moments in the film
where it's a little bit slow
the setup is great but once we it's kind
of like
we get the great setup and then there's
a little bit of low we get the action
there's a little bit of low and then the
third axis is like all action so there's
like two parts in the movie
kind of the beginning of the second half
and kind of ending and
i should say the beginning of the first
half and kind of the middle of the
second half for like kind of some low
kind of slower areas that i think could
have been trimmed out
just to make the film a little bit
tighter so those are my pros those are
my cons before i give you my overall
thoughts and my final score for army of
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all in the comments so with all that
being said
overall look at the end of the day zack
snyder is back and having fun
working in the genre of zombies and
action and the heist element which was
all fantastic
the zombies were incredible the kills
were there there's some really awesome
characters that gets me so excited
about that those prequels i mentioned
the animated series which will bringing
back a lot of these characters their
voice acting
and plus bringing some new characters
like joe meganello is going to be in the
animated series
and then we're also getting that
live-action army of thieves directed by
dieter
i can't wait to see what that film has
offered so this gets me excited for the
future of this franchise and also
without giving too much away there is a
potential
uh a door being open for sequels which i
would be
very on board for again i mentioned my
criticisms that the kate and scott stuff
didn't work
some of the low you know slower pace
moments in the film i wish were cut out
could just been a little bit more
cohesive but nonetheless there are
definitely more positives and there are
negatives and this is just a first time
watch i would imagine
my score which i'm gonna give you all
here in a second will probably go up
after second and third and fourth this
is
that type of film that's really
entertaining so with that being said
after the first watch
i'm sitting at army of the dead i'm
gonna give it a 3.5 out of five with the
potential
of it going up again for my zombie fans
you will not be disappointed for zack
steiner fans you're gonna love this film
and for the casual fans they might have
some issues with someone like said the
story plots
um you know some of the characters but
overall check this movie out if you have
the chance to see it in theaters
if you feel safe of course i would say
this is a theater going type of movie
and maybe one day when they open up to
more theaters
uh maybe i can see it but uh right now
if definitely if you have netflix check
this film out this friday and when you
do
let me know your thoughts on it again
your pros your cons your favorite
characters your favorite kills your
favorite zombie moments
and of course your favorite zack snyder
and your favorite zombie movie let me
know that in the comments as well
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