Tag: 43/100

The first thing you are going to notice about The Dead Don’t Die is the all star cast. It is just jam packed with A List actors. Bill Murray plays Chief Cliff Robertson. He’s clearly been a fixture of the town for decades and knows just about everyone. Adam Driver plays Officer Ronnie Peterson.

I’m going to describe The Dead Don’t Die as quirky. Up until the thirty minute mark I was thinking this might have been an art house piece where the zombies were going to be some type of symbolic representation of society. But no, we get to see two women get eaten in the diner right around the thirty minute mark.

Once the Zombies start showing up things rapidly get out of control. The town is overrun, and no one is safe. Ronnie has been saying throughout the movie that things are going to end badly, and he’s absolutely right. Almost everyone dies, but even worse, the movie just kind of takes a hard left that didn’t make any sense to me. Even in a spoof and then ended in a very predictable way.

The Dead Don’t Die Scoring

The Dead Don’t Die scored a 43/100, making it a Rainy Day Movie.

What cost it points? At about the 1:30 mark Ronnie breaks the 4rth wall. Chief Robertson asks him why he’s been so sure the whole time that things would end up badly. Ronnie tells him its because of the script. When I’m watching movies, I don’t want to be reminded that its a movie. The only thing that really earned this movie points was Bill Murray. He can take pretty much anything and make it worth a try. There were some amazing moments, which got The Dead Don’t Die the points it received, but overall I didn’t feel like it had a story that worked. Why the hell was the mortician an Alien? It didn’t feel like it fit to me, even in a spoofy movie.

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