By and by, a casino owner named Bly Tanaka (Hiroyuki Sanada) appears on the doorstep of burger flipper and erstwhile zombie slayer Scott Ward (Dave Bautista), telling him to gather a team together for a secret mission and a whole lot of money. They move into Las Vegas, undeading everyone in their path in one of Snyder's greatest slow-motion montages, and months later the entire city is barricaded off as a restricted zone.
Everything's going great until, of course, the convoy crashes, the cargo escapes, and everyone gets bitten. Army of the Dead, his newest film about a casino heist in the middle of Las Vegas overrun by zombies, certainly has its moments of genuine inspiration, but they're bogged down by weird character dynamics, forced banter, and a sluggish pacing that makes you wish these guys would just get zombified already.Īrmy of the Dead begins with a military convoy transporting unknown cargo (from, presumably, Area 51?) through the Nevada desert. His recent films have often gotten the label "grimdark," and while the doom and gloom is often leavened by unexpected bursts of humor, the jokes rarely actually land. There is no working director as determined as Zack Snyder to find an equal balance between humor and self-seriousness, and despite that determination has absolutely no clue how to go about doing it.
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