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  Review by Patrick Willems ★★★ 155

  I’m glad Zack Snyder got back to what he’s good at: making dumb movies that know they’re dumb instead of dumb movies that think they’re really smart

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  Review by ani ★★★½ 41

  you guys will never guess which popular 90s irish alt rock hit zack chooses to end this movie with lol

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  Review by demi adejuyigbe 35

  Now this is the kind of Snyder I prefer. The man’s so squarely in his wheelhouse here. Perfectly nutso set-up executed well. Even still, I thought the credits sequence was delightful until it suddenly felt extremely long- which is exactly how I felt about the whole movie! Lotta needless melodrama you coulda cut outta this one! Doesn’t need to be 148 minutes! Sometimes notes are good, Netflix!

  Caught myself awed at the beautiful framing of a shot and thinking “man Snyder really knows what he’s doing even without Larry Fong” and the very next shot was a shout-out to Larry Fong :) Truly love that Snyder loves his people :) Again though, wish he loved his editor more :) it’s…

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  Review by karsten ★★½

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  the first 10 minutes of this begs the question “can road head cause a zombie outbreak?”

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  Review by matt lynch ★★

  An absolutely blatant ALIENS ripoff that somehow has barely any good parts. Given that it's Snyder this is of course wildly bloated, but also given that it's Snyder it's shockingly dull, surprisingly cheap and crummy-looking (he's serving as his own DP but shoots everything in this generic televisual shallow focus), and almost entirely bereft of his splashy tableaux. Didn't have a high bar, still a real disappointment.

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  Review by Will Menaker ★ 27

  Zach Snyder brings us the blurriest movie of all time. Watching this felt like I was experiencing a concussion. The level of how much motherfucking sense it makes (TM StavvyBaby) is matched only by how generally hateful, lazy, and anti-human life it is. One of the worst movies I've ever seen.

  TOP SHIT THAT MAKES SENSE HERE
  -Why the owner of a casino would need a safecracker to break into his own safe.
  -Said safecracker opens one of the most secure vaults in the world by drawing some shit on the door and listening with just his ear.
  -A random French chick is a "coyote" who smuggles people into zombie Vegas.
  -Why would the military collaborate with a Casino owner…

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  Review by Julien Debaker ★★★½ 7

  And all of that just ‘cause some dude wanted a blowjob

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  Review by Matt Singer ★★★½

  At 148 minutes, Army of Dead does drag on a bit too long. When it finally arrives at its climax, its deliberate pace vanishes for a frantic, messy finale that isn’t quite as satisfying as it could be. Overall though, this is easily Snyder’s best movie in at least a decade. When Ward fights back tears as he tries to apologize to his daughter for all of the problems he’s caused, one senses that Snyder is pouring his guts out in a much more metaphorical way than is typical of zombie movies. It’s clear we won’t need a Snyder Cut of Army of the Dead. This is a Zack Snyder movie through and through.

  Full review at ScreenCrush.

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  Review by comrade_yui ½ 18

  by far snyder's worst work. his mythical-poetic attitude applies well to superheroes and spartans, but he can't help but painstakingly create an empty and unwieldy mythology for his undead creatures, stripping away any elegant or simple genre thrills this might have had otherwise. snyder communicates entirely in grandiose gestures and sweeping operatic movements, he's more akin to a great painter than a good storyteller, so why in the hell did he bother to do a heist film that has no actual effort to portray an interesting or intricate heist? there's no delight in process or technique, the stealing of millions of dollars is a minor footnote compared to the seemingly hundreds of listless scenes involving ominous zombie rituals and yelping.…

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  Review by BeHaind ★½ 76

  Mein Gott, ich weiß gar nicht, wo ich hier anfangen soll. Ich vergesse immer wieder, dass Zack Snyder eigentlich nur dann halbwegs erträgliche Filme zustande gebracht hat, wenn die Vorlage schon existierte. „300“ war schon Panel für Panel gezeichnet, „Watchmen“ sowieso und sein erster, wirklich guter Zombiefilm „Dawn of the Dead“ stammte aus der Feder eines deutlich besseren Regisseurs, James Gunn.

  Das hier hat er nun aber komplett selbstständig auf dem Gewissen. Regie, das Skript, Produktion, komplette kreative Freiheit, niemand redet rein - „Army of the Dead“ ist damit Zack in seiner pursten Form. Und weil ihm das niemand Wort für Wort vorgetextet hat, ist es natürlich kompletter Bullshit.

  Dass er dafür 150 Minuten braucht, ist mal wieder reines Egotheater.…

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  Review by Jay ★★★ 6

  evidently clear suicide squad should have been the dceu movie zack snyder directed

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  Review by SilentDawn ★★★ 6

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  Zack Snyder's shallowest of focus provides a strange stagnation to the ensemble cast moving through desolate Vegas spaces. As does the handheld camerawork, creating an environment that is ill-defined, constructed out of sudden bursts of violence and frantic struggles of survival. As a zombie film, this is immediate and constantly on edge as an aesthetic exercise, but unique in that the stakes feel real, not futile. The concept is great: stealing capital from a city that has no use for it anymore. Much of this corresponds to the political text too. Loaded images of temperature guns, refugee camps, covert government operations - how America functions under a crisis that happened to be contained. Zack Snyder once again encapsulates this…