metalgear-25259
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Army Of The Dead (2021) directed by Zack Snyder seems to relish itself on screenplay that amounts to deliberate, deadpan, cringe. It's so bad and seemingly intentionally bad, that you wonder if Zack Snyder is actually spoofing these types of films in a subtle and dark way.
There's a nod to Aliens with a Vasquez lookalike. She ridiculously takes on a horde of zombies that surround her whle wearing the symbolic red bandanna. She even carries over her suspicious, untrusting persona of anyone that is obviously untrustworthy to the viewer.
There's the young daughter who can fire a handgun that lands perfect long range head shots everytime! A zombie tiger that only kills the really bad person in the most horrific way and leaves everyone else alone! There's the helicopter pilot who disappears momentarily towards the end after being told not to let them down. There's even a moment where the pilot asks why they have to go back with 9mins left before the nuke? To which the reply is they got to go back to rescue the daughter. The pilot then reacts with a damn, OK, OK just make sure you find her. It's total, crocodile cheese. It's why I believe this film is not meant to be taken as seriously as it is.
If you look hard enough you can see the varying levels of dark humoured, spoofing from other films. Scott gives a (we have made it) nod to his daughter in one scene just before they take the money from the safe. Scott also talks of what food outlet he's going to run with the 15 million he'll hopefully have. It's subtle spoofing and quite amusing looking at the film from the right angle.
The trouble is Zack Snyder made a grounded, absorbing zombie movie in the Dawn Of The Dead remake, so expectations are much of the same.
I believe Army Of The Dead is something that is coming from a more humoured angle. It works on a Spoof, deadpan level but doesn't work as an immersive, tension builder like the Dawn Of The Dead did. So your expectations will be jolted. The more cringey or cheesy you find the premise, scene or idea in this film, the more Zack is laughing.
There's a nod to Aliens with a Vasquez lookalike. She ridiculously takes on a horde of zombies that surround her whle wearing the symbolic red bandanna. She even carries over her suspicious, untrusting persona of anyone that is obviously untrustworthy to the viewer.
There's the young daughter who can fire a handgun that lands perfect long range head shots everytime! A zombie tiger that only kills the really bad person in the most horrific way and leaves everyone else alone! There's the helicopter pilot who disappears momentarily towards the end after being told not to let them down. There's even a moment where the pilot asks why they have to go back with 9mins left before the nuke? To which the reply is they got to go back to rescue the daughter. The pilot then reacts with a damn, OK, OK just make sure you find her. It's total, crocodile cheese. It's why I believe this film is not meant to be taken as seriously as it is.
If you look hard enough you can see the varying levels of dark humoured, spoofing from other films. Scott gives a (we have made it) nod to his daughter in one scene just before they take the money from the safe. Scott also talks of what food outlet he's going to run with the 15 million he'll hopefully have. It's subtle spoofing and quite amusing looking at the film from the right angle.
The trouble is Zack Snyder made a grounded, absorbing zombie movie in the Dawn Of The Dead remake, so expectations are much of the same.
I believe Army Of The Dead is something that is coming from a more humoured angle. It works on a Spoof, deadpan level but doesn't work as an immersive, tension builder like the Dawn Of The Dead did. So your expectations will be jolted. The more cringey or cheesy you find the premise, scene or idea in this film, the more Zack is laughing.
It's difficult to review a film that purposely wants to be bad to be entertaining. Max Cloud contains the Ingredients of a 16 bit games console, Cardboard sprayed sets and intentional B movie acting added with goofy, unrealistic fight scenes.
The movie combines what you would see in a kids tv series but throws in swearing and over the top, cartoonish violence.
Scott Adkins totally mocks his own self-created film image by being extra dumb, arrogant and self important. He does stupid things in every scene he's in to get a laugh. For me it felt slightly cringe inducing or forced.
The film excels at nothing. It allows itself to be watchable at best, and cringe at it's worst. All dependant on what demographic or mental age you are, or want to be.
It also stealthily throws in gender reassignment and racial ideologies too. You of course need that in your films of today. It's definitely not a film that I would ever want to watch again.
The movie combines what you would see in a kids tv series but throws in swearing and over the top, cartoonish violence.
Scott Adkins totally mocks his own self-created film image by being extra dumb, arrogant and self important. He does stupid things in every scene he's in to get a laugh. For me it felt slightly cringe inducing or forced.
The film excels at nothing. It allows itself to be watchable at best, and cringe at it's worst. All dependant on what demographic or mental age you are, or want to be.
It also stealthily throws in gender reassignment and racial ideologies too. You of course need that in your films of today. It's definitely not a film that I would ever want to watch again.
Rogue One rekindled the love to why the Star Wars franchise was so good to start with. Care and attention to details, breath taking visuals, balanced battle sequences all add up to a satisfying and captivating film. This was how the follow on films to Return Of The Jedi should have been done.
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