The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Nick Cannon plays the saddest excuses of a Hollywood stereotype of a black man. I am surprise Ving Rhames didn't take Nick aside and bitch slap him for accepting such a part. This film had potential. All of the other actors (besides the awful Cannon) were good. The efforts were good. The zombie make-up top notch. The dizzy- inducing camera work was bad. The film did capture that same oppressive feeling Romero captured in his original, although the story lines are completely different. But Cannon's presence is about as offensive as it gets.

A town is infected with a virus that turns the populace into flesh eating creatures. A hardy band of survivors fight to stay alive...Regardless of comparing it to the Romero film that shares the same name - since not all remakes suck - this is just a bad film. OK! It can maybe be argued that the makers here tried to reimage Romero's zombie formula, by having the zombies here be supernatural in style, rage like in execution, and the gore is impressively shed. But sadly the characters are uninvolving and annoying, with actors either sleepwalking through their roles (hello Ving Rhames), or badly miscast (hello Mena Suvari).It's a drunken one night stand of a movie, it looked like it might be fun at the time, but come the morning there is just headache and shame. 3/10

A small town in Colorado is placed under quarantine by the US military when it is hit by a mysterious flu-like virus. Corporal Sarah Cross, a former resident of the town, & her family & a couple of soldiers are the only survivors when the infected turn into fast-moving flesh-eating zombies. Barely escaping a bloodbath at the local hospital, they seek shelter in a nearby nuclear missile silo. But what they don't know is that the silo they're in is also a clandestine military research facility where the virus originated.George A. Romero's DAY OF THE DEAD was the third in his landmark zombie series & his personal favourite, a film that was incredible in its depiction of a world gone mad as it fell into the hands of the zombie hordes as a group of increasingly unstable human survivors hiding out in a nuclear silo attempt to find a way to destroy the zombies, only to fall prey to their own destructive impulses. Since then, the film has become a cult classic due to its intelligent script & awesomely gory visuals.Since the millennium, the zombie genre has received a boost thanks to the remake of DAWN OF THE DEAD & the British chiller 28 DAYS LATER. Zombies became popular again, since then spawning about a hundred such films over the past fourteen years. In 2007, Millennium Films, purveyor of heaps of cheap & nasty Steven Seagal action flicks, decided to buy the rights to the remake of Day of the Dead & make it their way. Getting on board is Steve Miner, director of films such as Friday THE 13TH PART 2, Friday THE 13TH PART 3 & HALLOWEEN H20: 20 YEARS LATER. These films suggest that Miner's expertise lay in slasher films, but that won't stand in his way to make a zombie film.The original Day of the Dead was an underrated masterpiece, only recently getting more fans thanks to lovingly crafted DVDs & the resurgence of the zombie boom. But this remake is the complete opposite – a travesty that fails to reach the original's level & a dead weight in the genre. For a zombie film, this remake neglects its potential fanbase & was made in the same cheap way that the studio had did with its other films – shooting the film in Romania & hiring American youngsters who had a brief 15 minutes of fame in the film & were seen no more after this.Steve Miner is a director whose specialty is in making slasher sequels (he did have a minor hit with the supernatural time travel flick Warlock but that was about it), not zombie films. It shows in this effort, Miner's lack of familiarity with the type of film he is making proving to be apparent here. The script has been haphazardly written, with only minor lip service paid to link it with the original – the nuclear silo from the original was the main setting for the story – here it is nothing more than the setting for the climax; the characters of Dr. Logan & Captain Rhodes are here but changed drastically & have negligible impact. And the zombies themselves… The zombies in this flick are nothing more than a cynical marketing ploy to draw in those who are naïve in their expectations about watching horror remakes – another corpse to add to the pile. Here the creatures have been designed to copy the success of the fast-moving zombies in Dawn of the Dead & 28 Days Later with no limits to how they move – they can even climb on ceilings! This really breaks with established zombie film rules – there's even a stupidly-written scene where the survivors encounter a group of zombie soldiers charging forward whilst firing M16s in the air. This was the final straw for my expectations.Yet after all that, the film does have a couple of pluses in my book. The acting is reasonable & the action scenes, even after you deduct points for lack of care put into it, work with a reasonable intensity that will entertain slightly. That keeps the film from sinking into the lowest score.George A. Romero would be insulted by this stupid flick.

George Romero directed "Day of the Dead" in 1985, a nihilistic little masterpiece. Director Steve Miner would release a film by the same name in 2008.Fans of Romero's film were unsurprisingly disappointed with Miner's feature. Romero was political, unconventional, satirical, and took his time when building tension. Miner, in contrast, is simply interested in making a teen slasher movie. In his film, humans run from monsters. End of story.Still, at the very least, Miner's trashy film is more tolerable than Zack Snyder's "Dawn of the Dead", a 2004 remake of Romero's 1978 horror classic of the same name. Where Snyder tries desperately to be cool, hip and glossy, and where Synder tries pathetically to "construct characters with depth", Miner's content with basics: humans run from monsters. Shoot. Print. End of story.Actress Sarah Polley was the only bright spot in Snyder's flick. Mena Suvari, cute in uniform, is similarly one of the few bright spots in Miner's. She plays Sarah Bowman, a US Army Corporal struggling to escape a Colorado town infested with zombies. Like most bad horror movies, or most contemporary remakes derived from allegorical source-material, the "monsters" here are now something "literal" and "carefully explained": the product of a government designed virus gone haywire. Such literalism epitomises Miner's entire film; humans run from monsters. End of story.6.9/10 - With little connection to Romero's film, Miner's "Dawn" works fairly well as a standalone, B-movie. Worth one viewing.