Honestly it wasn't horrible, it just offered nothing new. It was endless footage of slow moving zombies combined with soulless characters. There also were glaring Hollywood type mistakes, which invalidate the claim this movie was somehow better.
Being desert trained military, there was one really dumb blonde don't do that, don't go in there moment that really bothered me. He's hot, dehydrated and he kills a zombie wrapped in BLACK clothing takes this clothing which saves him, and reinvigorates him....ummmmmmmm nope, this would kill him! I understand why they went for this, now he looks like a desert mercenary bad-ass, however......
Black clothing absorbs heat! Here's a little experiment for yah next time it's 90 degrees wherever you are, wrap yourself in black and see how you feel after 15 minutes. You'll be throwing that off in a hurry! Looks great in a movie, but it's not realistic, not at all! Nobody moving around in this environment wears black! ONLY in movies such as The Mummy so the character looks cool, or thinner. The only people you see in these areas wearing black are women. The men in these areas MAKE them wear it, on purpose, not for comfort, but for another reason. People actually living in, working strenuously to stay alive in this environment would tell you this would be like pouring gasoline on yourself and lighting up.
Also the continuously moving around in a beat up truck at night thing was just plain stupid too. The zombies have the advantage of dark cover to sneak up on you, it just doesn't make sense. What you would do is find shelter before dark, not constantly imperiling yourself, and instead moving around during the day when visual is much wider.
Then there's the truck stuck in a rut thing. We're trained to look where we're parking our vehicle...duhh. But worse, they don't even try to to explain how he did that, they just needed him to be stuck, so he could meet the other main character. Some of these 'Hollywood' movies employ 'writers' to think about things like this and say "lets show him swerving, or stalling, or something so he gets stuck, so our other main character can be introduced" Low rent, no thought movies just show him stuck. Also you know they're slow moving, they follow you anywhere, you'd get out of the truck, walk away, make noise so they all followed you, and then after leading them a good distance away, you'd run back to the truck and try to start it, duhhhhhhh. Don't give me the 'just a movie' crap line, this isn't supposed to be a dumb blond!
So now you combine bad acting, no story, no thought to situations and dumb/life threatening situations by a trained military professional? And try to tell me all these people loved the movie so much they signed up for the first time to IMDB to declare it the best zombie movie in 25 years? What are you smoking? Like I said it's not horrible, but it's far from great. Visually it was very good, but so aren't Imax movies. But it was terribly weak in story, acting and plot. If that's all it takes to make you happy I guess...light up another fattie in your parents basement and enjoy it again.
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