Zombieland. (2009)
Zombieland is, typically of a Jesse Eisenberg film, a rom-com. At its heart its the usual story of boy meets girl and girl eventually falls in love with boy over the course of the movie. The slightly unusual thing about Zombieland is that its a rom-com masquerading as a horror film.
Except when you come to look at it Zombieland isn't really a horror film as the comedy aspects easily outweigh any horror and the zombie threat is pretty non-existant, at no point in the film did i feel any of the four main characters would actually die, because for huge swathes of the film there aren't any zombies. Their presence is mainly felt in a few amusing vignettes in the first twenty minutes showing how Eisenberg became what he thinks is a lone survivor in a world now populated by zombies. In truth this is all very entertaining but its as good as the film gets.
As the film reaches its theme park destination the jokes have long since subsided and the romance slowly judders to a halt. We then finish in a fun free, thrill free, action packed climax as we all shrug our shoulders and wonder why they bothered.
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