 Okay, let's get this out of the way army of the dead is not good. It's it's in fact very very bad. I Appreciate a passionate fan base. I myself am a fan of movies and I like to defend the ones that I love I however have never seen such passion around one director before I believe one of Zack Snyder's early works Maybe his first big-screen debut was the remake of dawn of the dead I have nothing but praise for dawn of the dead the fast pace the believable characters the realistic scenarios I mean zombies all things considered the the cool effects the practical Situations it's all done so well. How is this the same director? Let's just get into this Scott Ward is the main character his daughter Kate is the worst thing to ever exist in cinema I don't think I've ever hated a protagonist so much in my entire existence Kate sucks no disrespect to the actress. She's Beautiful. She's certainly acting, you know, I believe she could make me like her in a different film It's not this one and that's entirely because of the piss poor Script we're gonna do spoilers in a little while So I'm just gonna get through this fast for those that don't want any The movies two and a half hours long could easily have been cut down by 45 minutes There are several subplots that are trash. They don't have anything to do with the main storyline They do nothing but hinder the plot progression There's characters that are introduced and seemingly main characters that later amount to basically one-dimensional Nobody's this was marketed as a heist film yet There is very little heisting going on the planning consists of dropping these people into Las Vegas To shoot a bunch of zombies and then pick a vault lock. That's that's the entire heist There's no like a through G planning. This isn't oceans 11 The plot in a nutshell is the US government was transporting a super secret thing and it gets destroyed by a car The front of the car crashes into this high-tech industrial-grade military vehicle which then sends it Exploding into the air that's enough to not only throw this thing onto the ground But also somehow unlatch the door and open what's inside here come the inevitable It's a popcorn flick comments. I don't want to hear it You can turn your brain off and have fun watching a stupid fasten the furious movie You get what you paid for I paid for a cool zombie heist movie with characters that I thought would do awesome things That wasn't the case it turns out what they were moving was patient zero a zombie-esque creature from area 51 I say zombie ask because this guy isn't your typical zombie now. He can move fast He has super strength. He can jump far. He's basically the zombie from I am legend Without the fake CG jaw opening Animation I'd be remissed if I didn't point out this military outfit was about the dumbest set of people I've ever witnessed They're so casual with moving this thing even when they get the call to evacuate the guys just like Hey guys, we're I guess we're supposed to head out. Oh really boss. We should we shouldn't just stay here with our guns Pointed at this we should leave is that what they said on the phone. Yeah, they were pretty serious about it They said get out of there now leave. It's over But what are you guys looking at? What's over there after a slaughterfest the zombie makes its way to Vegas and the rest is history Meaning everyone dies and becomes zombies Las Vegas is now foreign territory no longer part of the US They've boarded it all up with freight containers and they're just gonna let these zombies I guess just you know rummage around forage for scraps Just lumber like idiots until they can nuke the place in a few more days Which is the decision they ultimately come to because you can't parachute guys in or the zombies will just eat them And you can't hit them with drones Because zombies will eat them and you can't shoot missiles in Because zombies will eat the missiles But later they send a ragtag group of like 12 people in and they kill a lot of zombies pretty easily This plot doesn't add up at all to make dumb even dumber They have a perimeter right outside of the containment unit for I guess illegal aliens people that don't have homes You couldn't station these guys like 10 miles out Is it because that's not part of US soil so that this little bit of room on the outside is is technically okay for them to be I just I don't understand the logic of any of it This is such a shit show the heist takes place because while the events of Vegas were happening in real time There were some heroes that came out of that that saved a lot of people and somehow made it out You know by the skin of their teeth, which is a gross expression that I just used I never understood that expression I hate it Scott was amongst those people and how did the government repay him by giving him a cushy job flipping burgers for minimum wage Thankless cowards. They all are so after you know a while of doing that and wanting to kill himself basically every day Scott gets approached by a multi-million no Multi-billionaire I would guess who has a proposition marked fuck you for him Which is to sneak into Vegas with a crew of his own choosing and Break into the guy's own vault to steal the 200 million dollars inside that he was already collecting via insurance So this is double cash double prizes and he's even gonna let Scott keep 50 million of it to disperse as he pleases Amongst his team he hasn't created yet because he doesn't actually have like a task force. This isn't Danny Ocean You know, he's just got to like find people like on YouTube Which is literally how he finds a couple people mind of the spoilers yet? Or am I still doing like the regular review? Anyway, this movie makes no sense You cannot really enjoy it from a popcorn standpoint because there's too many slow dull parts and even when the action ramps up It's just not that interesting to look at Snyder Wisely chooses the backdrop of Las Vegas. This would have been an awesome scene for a Vegas shootout But then unwisely doesn't use Vegas at all the opening montage is Fantastic, it's like five glorious minutes of cool unbridled murdering There's zombie carnage everywhere humans are getting ripped apart There's an Elvis zombie walking around the Paris, you know that the fake Paris Eiffel Tower goes down It's all epically awesome It looks visually stunning and clearly every ounce of the budget went there And then after that the casinos are gone the slot machines show up for maybe two minutes Total at the end. There's no colorful vibrant places to go instead It's Emotionalist browns and grays with characters that have so little to say and do you'd wonder why they even made it a Teamfilm from one Zack Snyder hater to another I would skip this movie at all costs and save yourself two and a half hours Instead watch Don of the Dead almost two more times. It's so much better. It's a great movie I have to just keep going to get some of this other stuff off of my breast that listen There is so much nonsense. I don't even know where to begin. Anyway, the $5,000 woman goes in She's friends with Kate. How deep is the relationship? I don't really know. She has a couple kids I guess that means she's extra special in Kate's eyes since her mom was killed Scott assembles his team The script focuses on the ones that are unlikable instead of the cool ones like the pilot who's really funny or the German dude Who's mostly used as a punchline even though he's clearly jacked and could kick some ass the coyotes job is to sneak them in She accomplishes this by opening a latch and letting them walk in and then not shutting the latch behind them So they can just kind of go through these storage containers to the other side if they want to love when movies do that Nobody on set thought maybe one of the 12 people could just shut the door behind them There was one border patrol agent that spotted this and he's a rapey piece of crap So naturally they have him come along too because the real twist there is they're going to use him as bait as leverage to deal with these Alpha zombies that are patrolling the area. They can't go further in without appeasing the generals So they sacrifice this guy. Nobody has any qualms about it. They don't know his backstory They're just taking the word of one sketchy woman and nothing else Oh, yes, the billionaire dude that for some reason needs 200 million dollars Which he probably makes in a few days time anyways also has one of his crew members going with them Which definitely means he's gonna screw them over at some point the best part is everybody on the team knows he is yet No one thinks to maybe sacrifice him or just shoot him or just tie him up and put him somewhere No, no, they're gonna let him get up to all sorts of shenanigans Which leads me to one of my favorite moments in the film where they sneak past Hibernating zombies. I didn't mind this. I thought this was one of the better scenes of the film Definitely one of the more disturbing moments where they have to just kind of brush past zombies as they sleep standing up They don't want to make noises. It's intense. It's shot Well, and then once you know it that traitor does some traitoring He throws a glow stick that they're using for their direction down the other way so that the spicy female Follows it the wrong way and gets screwed over I don't know her name But I call her female John Wick because she's legit the coolest in the film with her gung-fu part It's just that part but that part's awesome. Anyway, she knows he's the one that did it and after she gets out of there Somehow she's battling all these zombies off while the rest of the team is just standing there watching She's looking at them and reaching to them for help her best buddy is just like oh No And Batista's like we gotta go we gotta go and he's like but but her he's like nope She's already dead and he's just like oh and she just keeps shooting people and dying He's like oh and but he's like come on guy. We got it. We gotta go. We gotta go and he's like no Then she's looking at them as she's getting eaten and can clearly talk because she's saying some other stuff But doesn't think to say that guy's bad. He killed me Awesome, this is the part where the rap breaks down They finally make it to the vault and Kate in her infinite wisdom Decides now's the time to go after her friend who's that? Olympus or someplace she just assumes she's there because I think someone made a you know an offhand comment or no No, it's because the elf was dragged The cop raper into that area so therefore everyone's there automatically according to Kate I apologize. I glossed over the part where Scott needs Kate's help getting in I mean just looking the other way really because they have a bad relationship And I bet it's gonna get patched up before this is all over right He said she could come with as long as she stayed right next to him at all times and didn't argue with him or roll Her eyes or act like a psycho bitch or do stupid things to jeopardize the crew She goes against all of those wishes Instantly she takes off with a single handgun and the best aim in the business as later We find her in a hallway Absolutely owning every single zombie that comes her way Headshot headshot headshot headshot headshot over at the vault The German guys trying to figure out how to get past some of the security measures which are very barbaric a lot of Smashing and dart shooting and bullets whizzing. It's like a modern Indiana Jones You know, but without the charm and visual splendor instead It's just a sterile environment with a couple gray walls and a big vault with a couple spinny knobs In order to figure this out He's gonna have to put all of his genius into it all of his brainpower to sit up there. I just listen to the clicks I don't think that's how vaults work anymore This is supposed to be one of the most advanced specialized vaults in all of history He absolutely adores this thing when he sees the little blueprints of it He can't imagine anything being made better and yet it takes him 30 minutes to crack it 30 minutes the best part is Scott just found this guy and he's like I heard you're good at what you do They've never even met this whole plan hinges on this dude being good. No, nah The greatest ever I'd be lying if I didn't think that CG animal was cool Haha, kill me. I'm still talking about this film. There's an awesome zombie lion scene where he rips the face off that bad guy and That's pretty much the end of the cool stuff Things get even more intense though once he starts to crack into the vault because there was going to be a nuke Dropping on this place in two days time But now it's moved up to like an hour and a half from where they're at now They have like no time to get the money and get out. It's crazy What are they gonna do to speed things up? We're gonna stand around to talk about their feelings father daughter chats black dude German dude chats Scott evidently had a relationship with one of the women earlier in the film that we don't ever see hardly She she reveals that she loves him still and then she's killed 15 seconds later just just absolutely worthless Nothing there for me. Oh my god There's so much in this stupid movie that I'm glossing over the the wife zombie the wife alpha zombie is pregnant Zombies can have babies in this. I don't know why I thought they were supposed to be you know just hungry out for blood They really are the I am legend type zombies anyway She's pregnant, but she's not gonna have a chance to deliver because they cut her head off and that's when the true Plot the sinister details are revealed I'm out of order because the bad guy that that's supposed to do this is already dead in my Recap but he cuts the head off of her because the billionaire boss never wanted the money He wanted the head because the blood the sweet blood of an alpha is worth so much more than 200 million measly Dollars that's nothing. That's trash another big reveal is this isn't the first team That's tried to do this other teams have come before them, or maybe it's them caught in some loop That's some endless cycle. There's a lot of deep complex stuff. It's like Batman v. Superman now It's like it's like the Justice League black-and-white edition on HBO Max So much Daff here which begs another question of the 70 I had why doesn't the billionaire just tell them He wants the head of an alpha. Is that really so much more preposterous or worse than having them? Think that they're stealing a bunch of money from a vault while trying to avoid the zombies I feel like this is a more straightforward thing. They could set up a trap or two Lie in the weeds and wait. They went through multiple teams Does this billionaire not have his own trusted advisors? He can take with at this point in my recap most of the people are dead All right, we're just gonna go with that most of the people are dead the The the German black dude are fighting the alpha guy down in the hallway And for some reason the German guy sacrifices himself and shuts the other guy inside the vault Why didn't he close the vault with him inside too? There was ample time for them both to go in there like way earlier They just stood there like deers in the headlights for so long Would fighting your way down the hallway with all these zombies be better than just shutting yourself in an impenetrable vault Knowing the place is gonna get nuked and that that vault will probably stay secure. Sure radiation poisoning is a must But I think that that's probably better than the alternative Which is dying on the spot and becoming a lifeless corpse walking around looking for sustenance Batista is about to get on the chopper They're about ready to go when the coyote woman's like uh-oh there's the alpha guy over there patient zero But look I stole the head from that bad guy I swapped it out with them with like a money counter a card shuffler or something And I kept the head because you never know went in Rome right or hey, this is Vegas With the stakes being so high She thought to herself Let me hold the head up and then walk as far away from the helicopter as I can because I also hate living And I'm gonna let this the stranger that I just met on the day Let him get away with the with the pilot and and and and I'm just gonna walk over here instead of I don't know Throwing the head towards the edge of the roof or just setting the head down and pointing a gun at it and backing into the Helicopter there's just like there's a there's a million opportunities to get out of this Instead of walking against a wall with no scenario where you're gonna live Throws a pole through her I couldn't have been more happy Because I wanted to do the same thing because of her stupid choices just in general in life Batista has the opportunity to get away when he realizes Kate's in that other building I might have I might be misremembering. I don't care anymore He has the pilot lady land him over on the other side He gets out shoots a bunch of people finds her Alpha dude chases them back to the helicopter Jumps into the helicopter. There's a fight where Batista is doing everything and then the other two are just kind of like pouting in the corner Oh, yeah, Kate found found her friend who she was still alive in the building. She didn't die The alpha leaves some of them alive just for fun, but he's just like I'll get to you later Maybe in a couple days. I don't know what we'll see we'll see where things go You know, I don't know if I'll have time. He bests the zombie, but not before taking a bite himself Yeah, so sadly Scott's not gonna make it through this one But the good news is Kate does and she's the only one that survives even the woman She ran in for initially and ended up getting all the team killed over is now dead in the helicopter I think we never see the body and she doesn't care to look she's out She doesn't care the whole film all she's wanted to do is get to this woman And then when she finally has her she couldn't give two shits about her anymore Phil man's with shocking the guy in the vault Getting out the one dude that thought Yeah, this is probably a safe bet actually he didn't even think that the German guy pushed him in there He forced him in neither of these dipshit start to hide in the vault. He gets out He seems refreshed even though I have to imagine he's got just a shit ton of radiation poisoning Oh, you know, he's gonna die from that slowly anyways But he's not gonna get that far because he gets on a private jet goes to the mirror feels sick and yep Sure enough. He's bit. This is not a this is not a happy ending. In fact, he's he's the new patient zero I don't know. I guess you can't do that But he whatever he's the new catalyst for what we're sure to be another sequel of just amazing Amazing storytelling. I hated this movie. Is it watchable? Yeah, but it's not a fun watch. It's a miserable watch It's not a turn your brain up popcorn film because those require some sort of Happy energy or excitement or amazing wow moments. This doesn't have any of that except for the first five minutes Which is the most emotional stuff in the film the scene of the mother Taking on all those zombies and then cradling her daughter in her arms as they both cry and get eaten Holy shit. That was powerful stuff. Snyder Why didn't you end the movie with that character and that daughter? I wanted to follow them In fact, I feel like that whole intro montage should have been the movie of just Vegas going to complete shit For an hour and a half or two hours, then we see the colors. We see the lights. We see the sounds that would have been awesome God It's like everything was ex-sniper these days is one step forward two steps back, you know He got his Snyder cut He got to do his version but then he adds in all these shitty things in the last half hour of the weird Joker and the 13 different credit endings. It just I can't anymore I just can't anymore. I'm gonna watch down to the dead. I recommend you do the same Wow, that was certainly heated and long. Thanks for watching the video Make sure to subscribe if you haven't already. 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