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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: 78% 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
"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
3/4
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Big Picture Big Sound
Joe Lozito
4/5
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Mike Bracken
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Felix Vasquez Jr.
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