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OFCS Rating: 79% Fresh |
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| "A dark, creepy and gore-soaked feast." |
| ReelTalk Movie Reviews |
| A. J. Hakari |
| "does not deserve to share the same glory that its vastly superior predecessors justly deserve" |
| Sex Gore Mutants |
| Alan Simpson |
3/5 | "a weak, if fun, appendix to Romero's excellent trilogy." |
| Eye for Film |
| Anton Bitel |
7/10 | "A refreshing and assured meditation on tolerance that does a darn good job of masquerading as a zombie shoot-em-up." |
| Freeze Dried Movies |
| Brian Juergens |
B+ | "It’s a joy to see the master of zombie cinema return to take back the crown." |
| FilmJerk.com |
| Brian Orndorf |
B | "Gory sight gags and intestine eating abound in this must-see movie for fans of the horror genre." |
| ColeSmithey.com |
| Cole Smithey |
| "Asia Argento makes her grandish entrance into Land of the Dead inside a cage." |
| PopMatters |
| Cynthia Fuchs |
5/5 | "Far from playing it safe, Romero sees this sequel as an opportunity to challenge the viewer." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| David Cornelius |
3/4 | "While the film nowhere near matches the success of the director's earlier ventures, it nonetheless rises to the occasion in delivering a bit of social satire." |
| Cinemaphile.org |
| David Keyes |
3/4 | "...isn't quite the instant classic everyone was hoping for; it is, however, a better-than-average horror film..." |
| Reel Film Reviews |
| David Nusair |
B+ | "More than just another zombie movie, a better zombie movie." |
| Ozus' World Movie Reviews |
| Dennis Schwartz |
2.5/4 | "Gritty, dark and unapologetically violent, Land of the Dead is a solid, serious zombie movie." |
| DustinPutman.com |
| Dustin Putman |
B- | "Good, but not great ... Romero has been surpassed by his imitators, who have learned to make zombie flicks with greater skill than the master himself." |
| EricDSnider.com |
| Eric D. Snider |
4/4 | "Romero’s satiric cultural slant has never been as finely tuned and elevates just another chapter into something deeper and scarier." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| Erik Childress |
B | "Nothing more than a zombie movie, but it's a first-class zombie movie, good, ghoulish fun, staged with skill and a nicely twisted sense of humor." |
| One Guy's Opinion |
| Frank Swietek |
2.5/4 | "There's a sense that Romero has run out of ideas and is recycling." |
| ReelViews |
| James Berardinelli |
3/4 | "more than good enough to stand on its own, and its only real weakness is that Romero moves through the narrative too fast" |
| Q Network Film Desk |
| James Kendrick |
3/5 | "The man who invented the modern zombie film comes back to his roots with this spooky, goopy horror flick about power and survival." |
| Netflix |
| James Rocchi |
8/10 | "It's really nice to see him with a budget... Romero's gone and made the zombie version of Metropolis." |
| Window to the Movies |
| Jeffrey Chen |
2/4 | "How disappointing that Land of the Dead is a familiar rehashing of what Romero already covered in Day of the Dead." |
| Slant Magazine |
| Jeremiah Kipp |
3/4 | "Su verdadero valor subyace en lo que un genio del cine como Romero tiene que decir respecto de hacia donde nos dirigimos como humanidad. Hoy todos somos zombies." |
| Moviola |
| Jorge Avila Andrade |
4.5/5 | "Romero hasn't let the kids today show him up one bit." |
| Cinerina |
| Karina Montgomery |
2.5/4.0 | "... expecting more horror and less adventure." |
| MovieCrypt.com |
| Kevin A. Ranson |
2/5 | "I pity Romero. Instead of a fresh Dead film, we’re given a bizarre mixture of Day of the Dead and Escape from New York - and not in a good way." |
| 7M Pictures |
| Kevin Carr |
B | "...zombies are now the new bottom of the class system, subject to indignities which enrage their leader, Big Daddy (Eugene Clark, a Black man, taking Romero full circle..." |
| Reeling Reviews |
| Laura Clifford |
3.5/5 | "Nearly two decades after George Romero's sadly truncated Day of the Dead (1986) apparently concluded his apocalyptic zombie series, this grim, gory fable proved that there was still life in the dead." |
| TV Guide's Movie Guide |
| Maitland McDonagh |
B- | "Romero finds creative ways to stage zombies feasting on flesh while tackling...gated communities, war profiteering, and entertainment as a weapon of mass distraction." |
| Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema |
| Mark Pfeiffer |
4/10 | "Romero is
more interested in Technicolor gore effects and
in young people shooting big guns than in telling
a frightening story." |
| rec.arts.movies.reviews |
| Mark R. Leeper |
2.5/4 | "A worthy installment in Romero's Living Dead series or just another gory zombie movie, depending" |
| Movie Habit |
| Marty Mapes |
| "There’s something Steinbeckian about Riley and Charlie, how they dream about gettin’ away and finding a bit of land where there’s no zombies, maybe gettin’ those rabbits..." |
| Flick Filosopher |
| MaryAnn Johanson |
3/5 | "The scariest moments in this film have nothing to do with gut-munching and everything to do with evolution, when the zombies don't behave the way they're supposed to." |
| Goatdog's Movies |
| Michael W. Phillips, Jr. |
3/4 | "Romero has made a movie that will completely satisfy the Fangoria magazine crowd but, like his previous efforts, also manages to make acute observations about modern society." |
| Aisle Seat |
| Mike McGranaghan |
| "More akin to the 2004 remake of Dawn of the Dead than to the 1978 original." |
| Cold Fusion Video Reviews |
| Nathan Shumate |
| "About as lively as a piece of roadkill." |
| Lessons of Darkness |
| Nick Schager |
2.5/5 | "Hardly the magnum opus for which Romero fans have been waiting." |
| Film Threat |
| Pete Vonder Haar |
4/5 | "Extremely clever social satire buried in a rip-roaring action movie that isn't afraid to get squirm-inducingly gruesome." |
| Shadows on the Wall |
| Rich Cline |
5/5 | "With a master's control, Romero sets his characters in motion and against each other." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| Rob Gonsalves |
| "Land of the Dead may be the baddest genre film this side of Y2K." |
| Projection Booth |
| Rob Humanick |
B | "For some of us, every day is a good day for zombies, and Land of the Dead lets their primary wholesaler do what he does best." |
| Flipside Movie Emporium |
| Rob Vaux |
B | "The film has one of the best lines of the year, by Hopper, 'Zombies, man, they creep me out.'" |
| Laramie Movie Scope |
| Robert Roten |
B | "The gore and gross out factors are high but that won’t stop the zombie fans from flocking to it like, well, zombies." |
| Reeling Reviews |
| Robin Clifford |
4/5 | "Land of the Dead works, and at times it works amazingly well -- but it's no classic, and I seriously doubt it will ever be considered as such." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| Scott Weinberg |
B+ | "The social commentary isn't subtle, but Romero delivers the goods so effectively that many won't even notice." |
| Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Sean Axmaker |
7/10 | "Zombies are back in another allegory - with the emphasis on the hardcore "gory."" |
| Modamag.com |
| Susan Granger |
1/4 | "The main problem of Land of the Dead is that it's lame." |
| Film Freak Central |
| Walter Chaw |
4/5 | "Romero fulfills the very formula he created and brings the series to a much more satisfying point than where it had been left." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| William Goss |
3/4 | Read review |
| Big Picture Big Sound |
| Joe Lozito |
4/5 | Read review |
| Mike Bracken's Horror Films |
| Mike Bracken |
| Read review |
| Cinema Crazed |
| Felix Vasquez Jr. |
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OFCS Rating: 79% Fresh |
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