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Has some interesting ideas and wastes them all, instead ending up as an overlong, dull cliché-fest. The entire 'smart zombies' thing pretty much made zero difference to the story - you could pretty easily replace them with lots of regular zombies and everything would work the same. The characters had potential but in two and a half hours there's barely any character development. Some of the alpha zombies having blue shiny stuff (I thought I saw some actual metallic endoskeleton stuff but that may have been a trick of the light [EDIT: turns out there are robot zombies , and they were put in there to set up prequel expanded lore stuff - ugggh]) - pointless. The guy getting out at the end - pointless. The heist itself is underwhelming. The action is solid but bland.
The title sequence is at least pretty good, though as with Watchmen the song choice is painfully on the nose (at least this one is narratively clearer); Bautista gives a solid performance, the first of his I've seen that hasn't been (purposefully and successfully) over- or under-played; there's a strong sequence where one character has to fight their way through a bunch of classic zombies at close quarters; otherwise this fails at every point.
Rating: Bad.
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