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Land of the Dead (2005)

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Average Rating: 6.6/10
Reviews Counted: 170
Fresh: 125 | Rotten: 45

George A. Romero's latest entry in his much-vaunted Dead series is not as fresh as his genre-inventing original, Night of the Living Dead. But Land of the Dead does deliver on the gore and zombies-feasting-on-flesh action.

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Average Rating: 6.4/10
Critic Reviews: 32
Fresh: 21 | Rotten: 11

George A. Romero's latest entry in his much-vaunted Dead series is not as fresh as his genre-inventing original, Night of the Living Dead. But Land of the Dead does deliver on the gore and zombies-feasting-on-flesh action.

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Average Rating: 3.1/5
User Ratings: 128,269

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Movie Info

George A. Romero, who revolutionized the American horror film in 1968 with the instant classic Night of the Living Dead, returns to his dystopian zombie cycle with this horror thriller. In Land of the Dead, the zombies whose numbers had been slowly but steadily growing through Dawn of the Dead and Day of the Dead now dominate the streets of most American cities, while urban skyscrapers have been taken over by surviving humans, usually greed-addled opportunists who allow the living to stay in

Oct 18, 2005

$20.4M

Universal Pictures

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All Critics (180) | Top Critics (32) | Fresh (135) | Rotten (47) | DVD (44)

The movie is listless and uninspired.

June 29, 2005 Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | Comment
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Romero's fourth-grade dialogue doesn't help matters, but anyone seeking out the latest achievements in cranial ruptures, spewing-blood gouts, and ground-beef spillage need look no further.

June 28, 2005 Full Review Source: Village Voice | Comment
Village Voice
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Zombies just aren't that interesting as villains because they zombie ahead.

June 27, 2005 Full Review Source: Ebert & Roeper | Comment (1)
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The plot held no surprises and the acting no revelations.

June 24, 2005 Full Review Source: Washington Post | Comment
Washington Post
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It's fairly solid fun without breaking any new ground.

June 24, 2005 Full Review Source: USA Today | Comment
USA Today
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Land of the Dead not only leaves you wishing Romero and his zombies might come back to feast once more, but that they'd take their time.

June 24, 2005 Full Review Source: Toronto Star | Comment
Toronto Star
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Romero's zombie movies have always been about people, not zombies. That's what makes them work so well and Land of the Dead is no exception.

March 22, 2011 Full Review Source: ComingSoon.net | Comment
ComingSoon.net

Romero is back and just as good as he was then...

April 29, 2009 Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed | Comments (2)
Cinema Crazed

Gory sight gags and intestine eating abound in this must-see movie for fans of the horror genre.

April 16, 2009 Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com | Comment
ColeSmithey.com

Vintage Romero -- bloody and grisly, and most definitely not for kids.

July 24, 2008 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Common Sense Media

While it's hardly Romero's scariest achievement, it is a thrilling, disturbing commentary on a man-eat-man world that hits just close enough to home to give viewers an uncomfortable pause.

July 19, 2008 Full Review Source: San Francisco Examiner | Comment
San Francisco Examiner

Romero retains his bite: not only does the excessive gore show little signs of compromise to get an R-rating; more importantly, he creates a radically subversive scenario that few contemporary filmmakers would dare to emulate.

July 8, 2008 Full Review Source: ESplatter | Comment
ESplatter

Romero's best film in a quarter century ...

June 19, 2008 Full Review Source: ESplatter | Comment
ESplatter

Land of the Dead may be the baddest genre film this side of Y2K.

October 6, 2007 Full Review Source: Projection Booth | Comment
Projection Booth

With a master's control, Romero sets his characters in motion and against each other.

September 24, 2007 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | Comment
eFilmCritic.com

a weak, if fun, appendix to Romero's excellent trilogy.

July 6, 2007 Full Review Source: Eye for Film | Comment
Eye for Film

If this does turn out to be the 65-year-old director's last foray into this territory, it's a great note to go out on.

March 1, 2007 Full Review Source: Film Journal International | Comment
Film Journal International

Romero is more interested in Technicolor gore effects and in young people shooting big guns than in telling a frightening story.

August 5, 2006 Full Review | Comment
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The film has one of the best lines of the year, by Hopper, 'Zombies, man, they creep me out.'

March 10, 2006 Full Review Source: Laramie Movie Scope | Comment (1)
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Audience Reviews for Land of the Dead

A post apocalyptic society has evolved in the wake of the zombie holocaust with the inevitable mix of haves and have nots fighting for what's left of the world's resources, little knowing that the undead are getting organized...Land Of The Dead feels the least like a Romero zombie film of the series. It actually has a

February 6, 2007
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The dead shall inherit the Earth.Very weak zombie movie. The film didn't even make a tweak to scare you or even impress you, it's all kinda of given and not really surprising, you can tell who will survive at the end. Not scary at all just a little entertaining. All in all, I say it was a mess of a film made by a man

November 24, 2009
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