Ejército de los muertos

Trash colosal con personajes molestos y desenfoque insípido de la imagen de fondo, pero mantiene tu atención porque hay suficientes cosas «agradables» para los fans del género. El bochornoso visionado se salva también por Dave Bautista, que no solo es una musculatura sino también una personalidad, y un tigre zombi que se comería de un solo trago al bueno de Ang Lee! (03.08.2021)

Después de Sucker Punch, se dijo que Zack Snyder no debería escribir sus propios guiones. Después de esta película, la gente dirá que no debería escribir sus propios guiones, pero sobre todo ¡no debería volver a ponerse detrás de la cámara! Ejército de los muertos es un tan increíblemente aburrida y fea visualmente que la falta de estímulo visual hace que uno se pregunte sobre la lógica de todos los acontecimientos de la película. Esto es un desastre. No tiene ningún sentido, los personajes están terriblemente escritos, los argumentos quedan inconclusos, los intentos de humor no son divertidos y los intentos de drama no funcionan. No noté ningún intento de horror en absoluto. Si hay que reconocerle algo a este pomposo naufragio, tal vez sea solo el hecho de que, incluso con su innecesaria y excesiva duración, nunca llega a aburrirse, en ella pasa algo constantemente y, al mismo tiempo, no ocurre nada que impresione. Pero eso es muy poco a favor en la cuenta de un cineasta que hace años nos dio una de las mejores películas de terror zombi del nuevo siglo. Hoy, por desgracia, es una parodia de sí mismo. (08.06.2021)

I don't understand what happened to Zack Snyder, a guy who has the brilliant Watchmen and the very good Man of Steel in his filmography and never really burned out creatively until now, to make shit like this. Pathetic, fucking boring and visually repulsive (no, the juicy opening credits and those few Las Vegas green screens don't cut it). It has only one decent action scene – the casino shootout – which doesn't come until half an hour before the end, and one single noteworthy idea, which is the zombie tiger. And leading the uninteresting ensemble of actors is Dave Bautista, whose acting limits end somewhere near Hamáček's abilities when he talks about his disguise maneuver. (24.05.2021)

I think I could enjoy a stupidly scripted zombie horror B-movie, but in this case most of my disappointment stems from the fact that there was no ambition whatsoever to make anything resembling horror. The tone is just overstuffed action nonsense that happens to feature zombies, and I was also surprised at how ugly it looks in many sequences. Moreover, such a banal film, which narratively and conceptually does not bring anything original and interesting, cannot be two and a half hours long for God's sake! You could throw away 45 minutes without any problem. Snyder’s Dawn of the Dead is on another league and I’m afraid we will never see anything like it again from Zack. (26.05.2021)

So sloppy, it's like nobody was trying very hard with Army of the Dead. The characters are so uninteresting that I didn't care what order they died in, the actors have no charisma or nothing to work with, and the first really interesting and entertaining action scene3 doesn't come until sometime at the beginning of the last quarter. Once they start shooting and slashing properly, it's quite fun, with Snyder keeping himself in check, so there aren't nearly enough of those slow-motion sequences to make it boring, it's just that there's about an hour of completely unnecessary ballast that is boring, where the most entertaining thing is how it all makes no sense at all. Sure, in a B-action flick, that shouldn't really matter, it's just that Army of the Dead may be a B-movie, but it really isn’t. There's climactic brutality , it only falls into the horror category because there are zombies. And Snyder's playing with the camera, which often leads to ugly visuals full of out-of-focus shots (which was supposedly the artistic intent), is more annoying than effective. I don't know. An hour after the closing credits, I can recall virtually nothing of it. Just that I was expecting a lot more than another routine Netflix movie, and I really didn't have those expectations particularly high. An unimaginative and boring waste of time. (21.05.2021)