10 Recent Movies With One AWFUL Subplot

Army of the Dead is another exercise in sheer excess from Zack Snyder, its absurd 148-minute runtime bloated out with relentless slow-motion and at least a few subplots too many.

But there's one in particular that pads the movie out egregiously, and that's the involvement of protagonist Scott Ward's (Dave Bautista) estranged daughter Kate (Ella Purnell).

Because Snyder apparently thought Scott needed a familial anchor in this unforgiving, zombie-infested hellscape, we're forced to sit through numerous hokey, melodramatic exchanges between the two, the actors trying their level-best (and failing) to elevate the scripted drivel.

Typically, Kate ends up tagging along on the central heist mission, in the hope of rescuing her missing friend Geeta (Huma Qureshi), a character whose fate the film couldn't seem any less interested in.

Kate's involvement piles additional complications and contrivances on top of what would otherwise be a fairly simple, even lean, zombie action flick.

That she's painfully unlikeable and frequently makes asinine decisions ensure she's dead weight in a movie that would've been all the better without her.

The fact that she's the only major character to survive fully in-tact only makes her lame-brained subplot that much more infuriating.