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Land of the Dead (Unrated Edition)
: It just feels rushed!! 93 minutes is not long enough for a Romero masterpiece! I eagerly await the 140+ minute directors cut that I am sure is in the works. That said... this is one heluva zombie flick and stacks up well with the others in the series. Superior acting (hopper is great), extensive gore(old school style!!YES), campy script, sweet FX, what more can you ask for? I can see some NOTLD hardliners being a bit disappointed at the ending or, perhaps, the overall tone of the film(zombies with souls?), BUT...folks this is one mean, bloody, smart, proud zombie movie!! Its finger-lickin good!! 4.5 stars!
Alot of people didn't like this movie, but I loved it. I'm glad it wasn't like the other living dead movies. Too much of the same gets old. I agree with the reviewer A.D. Castro with pretty much his/her whole review. I just love the violence and gore in this movie and it's action from start to finish. It never gets boring and oh yeah the gore is good. I just can't get enough blood and guts.
 Mediocre movie.. This movie seemed to be more like the remake of 'dawn of the dead' and a lot less like 'Night of the Living Dead' and 'Day of the Dead'. Too much plot, not enough sheer zombie killing. Also, they seemed to make this movie a bit humerous. I'm not sure if that detracted from the overall theme of the movie though.
I suggest you watch it..but wait for it on DVD or cable
As a big fan of Romero I liked "Land..." as a zombie movie although it didn't scare me as viscerally like when I saw "Dawn of the Dead" at an impresssionable 12 years of age with some older cousins. "Dawn" left me with that hyper-creepiness the world we know is ending with people we know--who look like us--tearing us apart with gnashing teeth and eating our innards at a place we knew everyday, the shopping mall. Here we get an apocalyptic wasteland populated by ghouls with a city fortress of rich people and a second-class tier of people who fight the zombies for everyday items. It left me little to hold on to in terms of a "this could happen now and today" creepiness "Dawn" instilled but it still gave me my fix of zombie scares. The zombie munchfests still had me squirming in my seat. The characters were real enough given their setting and some moments were palpable in its sense of dread and creep (needed more daytime zombie scenes to make it more real).
I guess I lean towards "Dawn" as the epitomy of zombie creepdom (and NOT the remake with its uber Nike sprinting zombies that could have just as well have been just an angry mob and not the creeping unsleeping nonresting everpresent shuffling undead--). The makeup in "Land" is far superior to the blue-makeup, squib packing of the dead in "Dawn". But "Dawn" felt real--like it could happen--and that you were "f"'ed if you didnt get your act together. But in "Land" you got your scares, your zombies, your apocalyptic wasteland Romero style and that alone is worthy of any zombie fans to check this one out.
 I don`t know how to star the movie is what you should do in the zombies movies. First the gore, the story, you jump from your seat for sure. I have the trilogy in dvd and this is the best of all of the movies and I think the movie left the road for a continue, I hope they make another more, Romero is the best director in this kind of movies.
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