A UN investigator tracks a zombie virus to its source. The z-movie as big-budget spectacular; not quite action-adventure, not quite horror. A series of linked set-pieces, and not bad, though not for fans demanding a faithful adaptation of its source novel.
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King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017, dir. Guy Ritchie)
A fantasy-oriented retelling. The second act is fine swashbuckling nonsense, but this version is stuck with lumpen first and third acts which set up unnecessarily complex (and irrelevant) backstory. Still, some fun to be had, and there’s one very neat idea about Excalibur.
Day of the Dead: Bloodline (2018, dir. Hèctor Hernández Vicens)
A military leader clashes with an idealistic doctor in the aftermath of a zombie outbreak. This second loose remake of Romero’s 2005 Day of the Dead adds little but a photogenic cast and some reasonable gore FX among the usual tropes and poor character decisions.
The Dark Tower (2017, dir. Nikolaj Arcel)
A fatherless boy is hunted as both the potential saviour and destructor of the multiverse. Impressively-designed and well shot, this is nevertheless an oddly perfunctory and rushed movie, cherrypicking 90 minutes of action from the Stephen King fantasy cycle.
Fancy another point of view? Here’s Lemonsquirtle’s review.
Ghostbusters II (1989, dir. Ivan Reitman)
The Ghostbusters have to reunite to battle another supernatural threat to New York. As much a remake of the 1984 original as a sequel, this passable reprise lacks the first film’s freshness, but has a few good lines and performances nevertheless.
Spacewalker [AKA The Age of Pioneers] (2017, dir. Dmitriy Kiselev)
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An account of the first Earth orbit with a spacewalk, the 1965 Voskhod 2 mission with Alexei Leonov and Pavel Belyayev. Excellent true-life drama; a counterpart to The Right Stuff and Apollo 13 in its mix of mythic modern heroism and actual space danger. Recommended.
Shin Godzilla [AKA Godzilla: Resurgence] (2016, dir. Hideaki Anno, Shinji Higuchi)
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A giant creature invades Tokyo. Effective reboot of the long-running monster movie franchise. Godzilla 2016 draws on contemporary concerns, offering a satire of governmental bureaucracy alongside good-looking man v monster mayhem.
