ARMY OF THE DEAD (2021): FILM REVIEW
Army of the Dead (R18+) Directed by Zack Snyder Written by Shay Hatten and Joby Harold Starring Dave Bautista, Ella Purnell and Ana de la Reguera Duration: 148 minutes I've never been a huge fan of Zack Snyder, but even I can acknowledge when someone has a hot year. Especially in a time like the one we're living in currently, to release two different films at the scale of Army of the Dead and Zack Snyder's Justice League within a few months of each other is a big achievement, and that's even before you take into account just what it took for Snyder to release his cut of Justice League. The idea at the heart of this film is a cool one; a zombie apocalypse adventure blended into the Ocean's formula of an ensemble heist movie is interesting, and novel as far as I am aware. One of this film's many problems, though, is that it never actually commits to that concept and executes it to fruition. There is one sequence that makes the most of the premise, which sees the