Diary of the Dead

Romero does it again, re-tooling his Living Dead series to be more now-friendly. At some point, he will have to give it a rest, or risk turning into Friday the 13th and become just downright cheezy! The script is ok, but flawed in several key areas. Quick writing? Lack of solid editing? Overall the movie has good parts and bad parts. At times, it is peppered with terrible acting, always the risk when going with lesser to unknown actors. That being said, some movies introduce us to up-and-coming future stars... me thinks this one had no such actor! Romero throws in a lot of criticisms and comments on today's technology-oriented society. A good thing at times, but not when it gets in the way of the whole purpose of the flick: to be a solid zombie creep-fest. The whole diary/home movie approach just didn't work very well in this movie, as opposed to how well it worked for Cloverfield. More work was needed on both the story itself AND on the direction. Some people did not like 28 Days Later (written by the incredible Alex Garland and directed by Danny Boyle) I loved it (and the screenplay was even better than the film, as Boyle decided to shoot it with a little less edge than Garland's script called for) I found that 28 Days did a much better job than Diary of the Dead... and the whole zombie dead franchise was created by Romero... it may be time for him to stop trying to re-tool his original idea and call it a career. He was great, he did some very inventive and innovative movies... but this one was quite sub-par to his usual standards. Not a bad movie... but nowhere near being good. 6/10. Period.