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Movie Overview
Cast
• Simon Baker
• Dennis Hopper
• Asia Argento
Director
• George A. Romero
MPAA Rating
R - pervasive strong violence and gore, language, brief sexuality, and some drug use
George A. Romero's Land of the Dead (2005)

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OFCS Rating: 77% Fresh
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"does not deserve to share the same glory that its vastly superior predecessors justly deserve"  Sex Gore Mutants  Alan Simpson

"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

"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

"This is Romero's best zombie film yet %u2014 perhaps the best ever made, period."  Portland Tribune  Dawn Taylor

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."  TheMovieBoy.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

"...the time we spend trapped in Romero’s nightmare leaves a lasting effect."  Light Views  John Larsen

4/10
"A franchise that should be put out of its misery."  Planet Sick-Boy  Jon Popick

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

"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

A
"Land of the Dead is probably the best-directed film in Romero's canon. It is a stunningly crafted genre work, a film of potent political import."  TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio)  Rick Curnutte

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

3/4
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OFCS Rating: 77% Fresh
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