Years after a zombie outbreak in Las Vegas, the city has been abandoned and walled off. A group of mercenaries are hired to break back into the city to rob a vault of 150 million dollars.
I was kind of excited about this movie - a heist movie set in the middle of a zombie-infested Las Vegas sounded awesome.
It is also created by Zack Snyder, but I always try to give filmmakers a chance to surprise me. Sadly this movie did not.
When I put the movie on, I noted that the runtime was 2 hours, 20 minutes - a bad sign. Snyder's movies trend long, and I am not the biggest fan of Snyder OR long movies.
First, the good: the acting is fine - Dave Bautista is fine in the lead role, and the other players are fine if a bit nondescript. The most interesting character to watch is Tig Notaro as the sardonic helicopter pilot - she was a late addition, CG'd in to replace Chris D'Elia. It is pretty seamless but it might have something to do with one of the things I hated about the movie.
For the first couple of scenes I thought something was off with my screen - everything behind the characters was out of focus. But this is an intentional choice - a choice that I found baffling and frankly annoying. Snyder is a filmmaker who likes to utilise specific aesthetic choices and spread them over the entire movie. Nothing has changed with Army of the Dead.
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