what a great word re imagining be . isn not that what they call dawn of the dead mmiv ( 2004 ) . a clever word indeed it disguise the term that everyone have grow to hate and remake that be and and make it almost sound a if the process of make one be creative and involve the imagination . well and damn and be i mislead . at least i be seduce more by the thought of countless gore and unbridle violence than by the idea of re imagining and though it play a role . still and why make a remake . director do it for only a few reason really represent to update a movie for a modern audience and or because they personally love the original and want to make a tribute to it . an homage and if you will . nonetheless and it all generally ( i do admit exception ) boil down to one thing represent steal someone idea and reshape it ( or re imagine it ) so that those who would never see it or understand it would pay money to see it . it like cole or cliff note while dump everything in a blender and purify all that be more puzzling and curious and throw in a few artificial flavor . in other word and a great marketing scheme . so what wrong with this one . well and i will start with what i like . i like the opening scene . thanks to cgi and a big budget we could actually get a grasp of the chaos of the zombie holocaust romero try to communicate in the original through minimalist mean . we see the city in ruin and thousand of zombie represent chaos and death . two word that look beautiful on screen . then it all fall apart . this set up lead nowhere . the movie do what almost every remake do . it add more of everything except character and atmosphere and and story . it noisy and ( in some sense ) bloodier and and more full of main character who appear only to die in nonsensical subplots . the setting and the mall which play a crucial role in the original film story and theme and be purely coincidental . the idea communicate in romero film and the pure ecstatic joy of have a mall all to yourself a a fortress and be go here . far and this re imagining have no moxie and no spirit and no ball . it assume ( probably quite rightly ) that the audience have no attention span and doesn not bother to get u interested in the character or the story . the film be rush and miss the quiet interaction of the four character of the original . you actually grow to care about those people in romero version because there be a certain realism to their existence despite the insanity outside the mall . here and you do not care when or who go represent what matter be how they go . what else be their to say . the film be not scary . it have one or two jump scene and it try to make up for the rest with gore and loud special effect . a a story it really too choppy to be follow and the conflict between the character be too underdeveloped to save it . the humor be also reduce to a few one liner ( and one really good character represent andy ) . after that and what remain . an end that be plainly ridiculous and far inferior to the subdue and inevitable ambiguity of the original film . but and despite it be a pretty bad film ( though not quite as bad a some other remake ) and it should be remember for one thing represent it kick the passion of christ from it number one spot in the box office . well do zombie .