Darren Brookes-Wright

A mediocre, predictable, overlong and, ultimately, disappointing follow up to the far superior Dawn. *Warning* Review contains spoilers. The first 15 minutes (available on YouTube at the time of writing), are the highlight of this mish mash of excellent visuals, influences of far superior movie subplots, think Aliens and Weyland Yutani's desire to use the Xenomorph as super soldiers via the antics of a corporate shill and his inevitable double cross of the team, to the Dirty (half) Dozen who are teamed up to carry out the mission. Cherry picking aspects from everything from the Italian Job via the Ocean's movies to 28 Days later, as well as the aforementioned Cameron classic leads to a tale of unrequited love, two dimensional cut out and keep "action" hero stereotypes, who in turn lead to characters you don't feel invested in, even the rather good Bautista, abandonment, redemption and a, VERY, briefly touched upon obsveration on the rise of the influencer/Youtuber phenomenon are all introduced, tease a better plot/movie somewhere on the editing room floor and are quickly discarded as yet another scene of peril at the hands of Patient Zero/Alpha Z and his Queen begins again during 2 hours plus of Parkour zombies, clichéd dialogue, in jokes, confusing legend building (that if this had been developed as a limited series rather than an event movie would have been a much more satisfying pay-off) and "see it a mile off" (anti) climactic twist ending. Overall disappointing. Perhaps Snyder has pulled a Justice League and there is a far better film out there somewhere destined to be released due to fan pressure at a later date. If you want to see a movie where the Father/Daughter dynamic is used to its full potential in a story of genuinely scary undead then the much better Train to Busan is a worthy suggestion on fast zombies done right.