Every George A Romero Movie Ranked Worst To Best
6. Land Of The Dead
Two decades after Day Of The Dead, Romero returned to his franchise armed with a studio budget, some name actors and the best effects money could buy. Land Of The Dead wasn’t a nostalgia piece but a hip, funny missing link between Shaun Of The Dead and Planet Terror.
Your enjoyment of the film depends upon what you want from a 2000s Living Dead movie, because if you want a modern Day Of The Dead with a grim tone, this certainly isn’t that movie. But if you’re looking for wise-cracking zombie killers, in your face social commentary and Dennis Hopper hamming it up as the corporate villain (in no way based on Donald Rumsfeld), then this is the movie for you.
It’s Romero’s post 9/11 zombie film but instead of turning in a thoughtful study of people under pressure, he has fun sending up the Bush regime. Even during the zombie apocalypse, Republicans see the business opportunities, selling real estate to those who can afford it and leaving the rest to fend for themselves.