The Dead, evocatively filmed in grainy 35mm, might carry the cinematic vibe of an old-school, flesh-eating adventure, but as it should be with stories like this, it's not a pretty picture.
The Dead
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United Kingdom · 2010
Rated R · 1h 45m
Director Jonathan Ford, Howard J. Ford
Starring Rob Freeman, Prince David Oseia, David Dontoh, Ben Crowe
Genre Action, Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller
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U.S. Military engineer Brian Murphy's evacuation plane crashes off the coast of war-torn West Africa. The sole survivor of the crash, he finds himself stranded while zombies close in on the area. With help from a local African soldier that has gone AWOL, Murphy must evade the vicious zombies to make his way back to America.
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The Dead ultimately doesn't have much of a pulse, as it fails to transcend the banality of its inevitable theme.
Charlotte Observer by Lawrence Toppman
The Fords give us old-fashioned predators: Zombies shuffle slowly, silently, patiently forward, as implacably destructive as Time itself. Meanwhile, the Fords play off our memories from books, TV news and other movies.
Austin Chronicle by Marc Savlov
The film provides a whole new way of looking at the same old dead things. Eat up.
The New York Times by Neil Genzlinger
Its scenes frequently feature Africans machine-gunning other Africans or hacking them to death with machetes. This is a disturbing sight indeed. Maybe it was intended as a metaphor, but this movie isn't nearly sophisticated enough to pull off that kind of commentary. It's not really even sophisticated enough to be an absorbing zombie movie
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