Z/Web

Director: George Romero

This is the third in Romero’s Dead series. My favorite is still Dawn of the Dead, which is awesome. This one continues where that left off with a handful of survivors trying to figure out what to do next. They are holed up in an underground facility where scientists are trying to figure out what makes the living dead tick (so to speak) and a few psycho military guys. It’s a claustrophobic film with plenty of zombie gore, and while it’s interesting, much of the acting is obviously sub-par, and unfortunately the film doesn’t have the social relevance of the first two. In the end it’s just a zombie movie and not much more.

Weird Kevin Costner movie where he plays a doctor whose doctor wife died in South America. Kevin’s character then gets messages from near-death patients who are telling him they are bringing back messages from his dead wife. The doctor becomes obssessed with this, convinced his wife isn’t dead, but of course no one believes him. The ending redeems things slightly — there actually is a point to all the silliness — but the film’s just bizarre and odd for much too long for any plot to redeem it.