Diary of the Dead # (2008)DVD

"The premise is that people are coming back to life and killing people aka zombies. Let's hear it for George sparking our minds with crazy dialog and a rollercoaster ride of a script.....nothing? Oh well, at least there is gore and a crazy amish guy that throws dynamite. That made it rentable. Rent it, please don't buy it"

"Forty years after Night of the Living Dead, but only three years since the last jaunt into George Romero's zombie territory, comes Diary of the Dead. Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead will probably never be topped, even by the man behind them. I'm probably sinning, but I'd give this one third place after those two, and just barely ahead of Day of the Dead. But there's not really room for comparison, this film and the other four are basically from different worlds, the first world's existence culminating in Land of the Dead, after which this new vision was a welcome change. George Romero is undeniably good at finding the most gnawing problems of a certain time period and converting them into socially minded zombie films. His subtlety has waned with age, but here in Diary of the Dead, his relatively overt message is less grating than that of 2005's Land of the Dead. The story moves from place to place sloppily at times, and the motvies for going to certain places just seem like they were written in to set up certain zombie deaths, many of which were actually pretty creative this time around. The sense of humor in this movie is pretty good, not all of the lines are delivered perfectly but for lesser known actors it's forgiveable, most of them did better than some actors with years of experience. All in all, I would recommend this to other people to watch at least once, it's not revolutionary to film or even to the zombie genre, but it's a decent watch and has some very clever moments strewn throughout. It could do with less in your face commentary but it could have been much worse. The special features are OK, nothing too wonderful the most notable on the disc were a few deleted scenes, some cast confessionals of which Tony stood out, and some Myspace user-created short films, one made by and starring Teller from Penn and Teller fame, that was just special."