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I saw trailers for this film when it was first released and thought it looked interesting, especially with the cast, then promptly forgot about it. Saw it on Netflix last night, great, will check it out!

What a mistake. Doesn't matter how good your cast is, if you have a trash script, trash jokes and a trash storyline, your film is going to be, you guessed it... TRASH. I really don't know what they were going for with this. Tonally all over the place, takes ages to get going, wooden acting, the stellar cast is given nothing, NOTHING to work with. They got their paychecks I guess. It was actually painful to watch. This is 'The Room' or 'Birdemic' of zombie films, except without the 'so bad it's good' angle, it's just bad. Horrible. Excruciating. Makes no sense. Characters have literally no backstory so it's impossible to care about them, nothing is fleshed out there are no explanations for what's happening, Tom Waits just wanders about looking at stuff through binoculars and talking to himself, it all goes NOWHERE! There is also a completely inexplicable fourth wall breaking bit that comes out of nowhere which was supposed to be... funny? It wasn't. At all. Much like the rest of the film. They also have these running jokes which aren't funny the first time, and are repeated ad nauseam.

This is honestly like someone set out to make the worst zombie film ever. If that was their goal, well done. You succeeded on every level.

See this movie if you love food, appreciate culture through cuisine, are depressed or simply if you want to see a funny, feel good, laid back, well acted film with beautiful cinematography. There is a lot to relate to and the laughs come regularly.

Everyone in the film is great however the veterans Om Puri and Helen Mirren are particularly good and have fun with their roles.

Slow in parts and slightly predictable but doesn't go for the 'cheap shot' in terms of drama, which was refreshing.

I really enjoyed it, and I wish films like this would come along more often.