Zombieland: Double Tap Review - 6 Ups & 4 Downs
4. The Action & Gore Are Massively Improved
There's one distinct area where Double Tap improves over the original Zombieland, and that's in the action stakes.
With a budget roughly double that of the first film, the visual effects look decidedly more convincing throughout, and that extra cash injection has also allowed Fleischer to serve up more elaborate and absurd, gore-soaked set-pieces.
The action isn't the primary focus, as it wasn't in the original, but there's a greater sense of style, polish and creativity to the bloody mayhem on offer here.
Hell, there are even a few practical gore effects that look great, especially a wonderfully gnarly moment where Harrelson's Tallahassee caves a zombie's head in with a hard stomp.
There's also a remarkable single-take scuffle mid-way through the movie that's probably the most visually dynamic thing the filmmaker has ever shot.
While its style is still consistent with the first Zombieland, Fleischer has clearly put his higher budget to good use, and if the first film felt a little tame in the gore stakes, Double Tap hugely compensates for that.