Zombies are Timeless: True. Heist Films are Timeless: Also True: Zack Snyder’s ARMY OF THE DEAD

Army of the Dead (dir. Zack Snyder), looks to be just another run-of-the-mill heist flick with a few of the undead tossed in for flavor. The trailer opens with the sound of the late great Kenny Rogers classic, “The Gambler” as a seemingly smart foreshadowing to the trailer that follows. Scott Ward, played by Dave Bautista (Guardians of the Galaxy, My Spy) is a humble cook with an heroic past just making ends meet until, that is, he is approached by the token mysterious stranger who tasks our soon to be entrenched warrior with a proposal he, and a group of other hard on their luck mercenaries cannot refuse, with just a few thousand(?) caveats: Zombies. And not just any aforementioned standard issue ghouls. “They are smarter. They are faster. And they are Organized.” The three-minute long trailer lays down the premise for what looks to be a fly by […]

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