Army of the Dead [Zack Snyder, Netflix]

This film was terrible, too long and boring. I don’t know how you make a film about zombies in Las Vegas boring but synder managed it.

Unnecessary plot points like intelligent zombies (that aren’t really zombies) and way too many characters make this film pretty much unwatchable. Even one of Snyder’s strengths of having good visuals is lacking in this film.

I genuinely can't tell if he's serious or not. Years of dealing with Snyder Cultists has melted my brain haha

Saw it last night. I mean, yeah it's a bad film, but not in a frustrating or aggrevating way. It's just confusing. I found myself wondering why certain shots were included. The Japanese guys hand after explaining the plan for instance. What was that about? Or why certain plot points happened the way they did, like the love story out of nowhere that lasted less than a minute to try and give some gravitas to a death. Why not just make more of an effort to establish that earlier? The most interesting character of the lot was the first one to die (excluding the guard fella). Someone who seemed to be more than they originally seemed and was actually pretty clued in rather than a total idiot. And yet that individual managed to survive the impossible only to die with everyone watching on when they could have, you know, helped. But nope, script requires characters death. And what about the woman in the opening credits montage. I was sure that was going to fit into the story someonhow. Nope. Also, how could the guy who owned the safe not have any way to get into the safe?

Then we had some of the standard nonsense like the safe cracker who had never shot a gun before being a perfect shot from the moment he laid hands on a gun. Headshots everywhere. The female tag-a-long character who couldn't make a headshot from 1m one minute but was making headshots from distance time after time almost immediately after, like she unlocked that skill in a computer game. Either make her proficient or don't. And why do handguns make standard bullet holes in zombies sometime and literally blow their heads in two others? The Alphas just reminded me of Ghosts of Mars.

After watching the prevailing word was "why". A bunch of recycled ideas cobbled together and executed badly. None of the laughs were funny, none of the drama hit the right tone, none of the deaths mattered as they were all by the numbers. I've seen that film before. Loads of times. And without the shallow focus or bloated run time. It passed the time and wasn't offensively bad, but I've seen plenty of films deliver the same on a much, much smaller budget.

Also, can anyone explain to me why anyone would take on a job to liberate $200m dollars, take all of the risk and put in all of the effort for a mere 25% of the overall score? How was Bautistas first reaction (because I'm fecked if I can remember any of the characters names) not "make it 50% and we'll start talking"? Again, why? This one will have me scratching my head for the next day or two before I ultimately forget everything about it.