Bathed in bathos


While I appreciate the need for scenes of real life to contrast with the zombie action scenes, there was just too much blubbery sentimentality and long camera studies of sad faces for this American viewer. (I really wanted to kill the crying girl as much as the zombies did toward the end of the movie.) Hell even the protagonist bawls like an infant when he is informed that his company has as a client the biotech company where the virus originated. This orgasm of sentimentality also let's you know that there is no way the woman and kid were going to be shot in the end, so there was no tension at all even when the order was given to kill them. The zombie action was pretty typical, only placing the scene of the action on a train being novel. 94% on RT? I feel like the critics were not really exercising their critical faculties on this one.

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