This was a very strange movie, and I mean strange. “The Dead Never Die” stars Bill Murray and Adam Driver as taciturn policemen who work in the sleepy small town of Centerville. Fracking by American energy companies has caused a problem with the Earth’s rotational axis which leads to ZOMBIES!! The movie follows various characters as they try to deal, mainly unsuccessfully, with this epidemic, I usually love quirky zombie movies, but I must say, this one, not so much. For a dark comedy, there are hardly any laughs. For an action movie, there isn’t much action. There are tons of zombies though, doing the usual things that zombies do and it is very graphic. It just wasn’t very interesting though. There is even a potentially clever twist featuring Tilda Swinton that goes nowhere except into a strange sort of plot hole. The movie ends with a preachy diatribe about how we are ruining the planet that seems totally unnecessary and out of place. If I were you, I would rewatch Bill Murray in “Zombieland” and skip this one entriely.
The Dead Never Die
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