The Dead Don't Die

Me being a huge fan of zombie movies, I had to watch this one starring so great figures like Bill Murray and Tilda Swimpton. Despite the top quality actors, this is one of the worst movies I've ever seen in my life, if not the worst. It isn't funny at all, even when the movie tries to be, I haven't laughed at not one single joke. It tries to be irreverent but it fails catastrophically, ending up with a bunch of nonsense plots that ultimately converges in the worst ending that could've been imagined by anyone. It isn't good with the subtext neither, since the environmental theme is so on the nose that it cause you regret that you haven't contaminated more the world to destroy it before this movie was released. I wouldn't wish this experience not even for my worst enemy. Seriously, don't watch it.

I was really disappointed with this movie. The cast was filled with so much acting potential, but the story was absolutely hampered by an overabundance of long meaningless pauses, lack of realistic country people, and the idea that no one seems to know what to do during a zombie apocalypse. Yeah, I get that the hermit was responding like and animal and survived by not being human. Yeah, the Tilda Swinton character is an alien and calls for a ride home in a UFO. And that's important because... I love dry, dark humor but this was SOOO slow. Even slowness can be forgiven but this movie made the unforgivable mistake - it was boring. (Dune is slow, but there was so much to see and take in - it wasn't boring, per se.) Cinematically, I thought some of the framing of shots, lighting effects, and camera work would start to reveal some clever details and cool zombie shots later in the movie. I was wrong. (In the diner, there is a patron framed in the background when Steve Buscemi and Danny Glover are talking. It *could* have been used to show context or an action in the background that portends of the future. It didn't. It didn't mean anything.) The humor, if there was much, wasn't original. The gore, of which there was a little, wasn't particularly disgusting or even morbid (the black dust from the destroyed zombies was original, but didn't seem to matter). There are subtle details embedded throughout...that all seem to lead nowhere in the end. All in all, the slow start led to a slow middle and a disappointing ending. Police officers, even small-town officers, have no situational awareness? They have no sense of self preservation? They have no thoughts related to ammo or body armor? If the message of this movie was social commentary about humans losing their way and only the animal-like and aliens will survive, then that message was ridiculous and the only 'funny' thing about it. Nothing in this movie was laugh-out-loud-funny. Nothing in the movie was super dark with social commentary, especially for an apocalypse type zombie movie. Don't waste your time on this movie. If you love dark comedy, you'll hate this. If you love Zombie movies, you'll hate this. If you want a clever, self-aware, cinematically rich dark-humor zombie movie - watch Shaun of the Dead. It has set a standard and this movie is far below that standard.

fun movie, AMAZING cast!

Great cast! This is satires. Dry sense of humor required. An interesting commentary on consumerism.

I personally really enjoyed Only Lovers Left Alive, but I can't stand this because this is just yucky. Tasteful ensemble cast easily wasted. For better hangout experience with a zombie film, I highly recommend to revisit Shaun of the Dead, the classic.

Is is slow, yes, but the dry humour is fantastic. If that's your thing.

Great cast, fun story & definitely worth a look. Lots of very cool surprises. L'dmao!

Not only that this film is very bad and how random it was, but is also has some very funny moments, the cast in this movie are memorable, even if this film is not high art, you can still find it entertaining 7.1/10

Concentrated unfunny, pointless film. It makes absolutely no effort at comedy. Then it decides to introduce a character wearing a red hat that reads, "Make America Wh1te Again" and makes the source of the problem "polar fracking". This movie can only possibly be funny to humorless leftist elitists, to whom affirmation and quirky stereotypes are funny.

Terrible movie, I wanted to quit after 30 minutes but finished it. What a crapp just so much crapp