The Revenant Reviews

At some point, when he  turned 15 years old my step-son Nick decided to buy dvds with his pocket-money and he came home with the weirdest movies you could possibly imagine. Indeed, when I saw the cover of this one, I thought it looked pretty bad and I actually told him that I woudn't watch it. But then, I checked the damned thing on IMDb and, I have to admit it, the ratings were actually decent so I still ended up watching it with him. Eventually, it turned out to be one of the most original zombie flicks I have seen lately. I mean, I don't know about you, but after watching so many zombie movies, they all start to look alike after a while. Here, the masterstroke was to make the zombies conscious and relatively intelligent. Indeed, like Roger Ebert pointed out, the biggest problem with your average zombie feature is that all the zombies are so dumb and it is therefore rather difficult to  build up a story around them. So, it was quite refreshing to see some zombies who could think, talk and being aware of what they were going through. Unfortunately, they also had to make them some bloodsuckers as well which wasreally redundant but, I guess, they had to keep them busy somehow. The other issue I had is that the makers were creative and obviously enthousiast but also rather over-ambitious. I mean, you had here some comedy, satire, horror, romance, action, some vigilante stuff, even a political agenda and, obviously, not everything did work. Still, to conclude, it remains an original and entertaining flick and I think it is worth a look, especially if you like the genre.