Jonthan22 George A. Romero returns with another Zombie apocalypse movie, the likes of which made him a household name back in the 60's and 70's.To start off I will say its better than Diary of the Dead, which was god awful. I would say it is on par with Land of the Dead. I preferred the characters in this one compared to Land, in which every characters fate was more or less telegraphed in their first scene and the post apocalyptic feel became kinda goofy, but Land has an overall better plot IMO so they are on par with each other.Two rival Irish families on a remote Island lock horns when their beliefs on how to "deal" with the increasing undead horde start to differ. Have to say I liked O'Flynn and Muldoon, silly old geezers that they were. Both were clueless but dealing with the situation in their typically stubborn, old men ways.The army guys (well the Sarge and the lesbian anyway) were pretty likable in an Anti-hero "dont f**k with us" sort of way.Overall the plot was kind of daft. Keeping Zombies chained up pretending to do what they did in life achieves what exactly? Except increasing the chances by 100% that one will eventually break free and chow down on one of your loved ones. And that was this movies main flaw. If one of the family heads wanted to keep the zombies imprisoned somewhere safe under the impression (incorrectly of course) that there would someday be a cure and that his loved ones would come back to him, I could buy that. But keeping them shambling about in your home and fields while they pretend to make you an omelet in the kitchen is just stupid. Not to mention the fact that having a months old rotting corpse in your house would make the stench of your home nigh on unbearable to human nostrils.Better characters, but a sillier plot, otherwise this could have been a better movie....but please..its not worth comparing to any of the original trilogy, which IMO are horror movie masterpieces, this isn't even in the same league.5/10

DamianThorn With Diary being in my mind the worst entry into the Living Dead series, this film outshines that one by leaps and bounds. Survival plays off the same concept as the original Day of the a Dead from 1985. By that I mean, the utterly insane argument over whether or not the dead come back to life could somehow be trained or taught to be useful to the living rather than trying to kill us or us trying to kill them.For anyone whose a fan of this series, they will recall the repeated sentiment from each film that "we must stop the killing, every living person we kill gets up and kills". The idea behind that is that the living must unite to eradicate the dead or in the end there won't be anyone left alive to argue about how to survive. However another sentiment is expressed in the series. That is the idea presented by a scientist to domesticate the dead and teach them to eat something other than human flesh. Of course, there's no common sense in it but there's little doubt that even in the real world someone somewhere would try. Humans have an inability to let go of the past and where Day of the Dead looked at that from a scientific aspect, Survival of the Dead looks at it from an emotional one. Not to mention the seemingly endless human need to feud and fight and argue over whose wrong and whose right.All moralizing aside, in a zombie outbreak I'd personally shoot first and ponder the moral conundrums later. I would rather survive than risk being eaten by zombies...but then that's just me. As for the movie itself, technically it's very well done. There's a solid story beneath what might seem like a silly plot. The acting is quite good, the writing and directing is solid and the special effects are overall very well done. Romero tried very hard to distance himself from the politics of Land of the Dead (2005) and even harder to distance himself from the mess that was Diary of the Dead. He did that and in the end achieved a very well put together and enjoyable zombie movie.Tom Savini returned to help out as much as possible with the special effects after his absence from Diary of the Dead so there's a minimum of CGI here. In fact the last half of the film has some fantastic traditional Savini gore and his hand can really be seen in the final zombie attacks.If you can look past what might seem a silly opening and remember the concepts from Day of the Dead 1985, you will really enjoy this movie in the end. If you can't, or you've never seen the earlier Romero films you may not get this movie at all. However as I said, it is well shot and well put together so either way why not give it a try? You just might find a lot more here than you expect.

turdymac I think it amusing, half of you that are on here to bash films were probably not born when Romero first hit "Night". All you know is "CGI" these days. Yet, during you incubation, REAL films occurred. You Twighlight, Hunger Games idiots (which comprise a lot of you these days have no idea of cinema and it's purpose. Your purpose is to complain and nothing more simply because in "real life" no one give a crap on your opinions. You people are pathetic. How hard is it to actually enjoy a film for what it is? Just a friggin film. People pick apart films too much theses day. It's like they expect it to mirror life on a real scale. What ever happened to just pure fantasy and escape? This is whar movies are intended to be. All I say to you nerds that have to pick apart a film simply because YOU disagree .....well...eat it! Stay at home at 45. Don't try to attempt a life because life don't want you. Better yet....shoot yourself and save everyone the trould of having to take care of you after your mom gets murdered by your dad...'cause I would probably do the samre if I had a kid like you.

Gatto Nero What a total disappointment. Having grown up with all the "Dead" movies that Romero had done, I cannot believe this crap of a movie was done by the master of those other greats! It wasn't scary or funny. The zombies looks more stupid-looking than dead-looking. And the worst thing for me was that damn music score! OMG! How irritating and obnoxious! It gave the whole movie a cartoon-like feeling. I feel had Romero used a score like he did in the original Dawn of the Dead and filmed it it with the same kinda of old resolution like he did with Dawn, it could have made in my opinion more watchable but that ridiculous score and almost perfect HD-like picture quality, just drove me insane! I feel Romero has gone way too "Hollywood-like" It's not really Romero anymore. What a shame. I had high hopes for this one because of 'Diary', which I somewhat enjoyed. But this one for me just did me in.Oh Mr. Romero, either go back how you use to film way back in the day or just retire with some dignity and let us the viewers remember you how you use to scare us and not bore us like you do now.