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Army of the Dead premiered Friday, May 21, on the streaming service.
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The film starts with a military convoy outside of Las Vegas that gets into an accident while transporting dangerous Cargo. When the cargo breaks free, the outbreak begins. The Zombies are confined to the Las Vegas area, which is closed off and heavily guarded so that no one can get in. Scott Ward (David Batista) is presented with an opportunity to retrieve a multi-million dollar fortune from one of the casinos inside the zombie quarantine zone. He must assemble a team, bypass hidden traps, crack the safe to get the money, and escape to the helicopter to safety. There’s just one problem: there’s only a few hours to get in and get out before a nuclear bomb destroys Las Vegas.
There’s a certain sense of poetic symmetry for Zack Snyder’s
Army of the Dead. Long before he tumbled down the rabbit hole into the world of comic book adaptations and superheroics, the famed director got his start in 2004 with a highly well-received remake of George Romero’s
Dawn of the Dead. Now, 17 years(!) later, he’s staggered back much like the famed undead antagonists at the core of zombie flicks with a new take on the genre for Netflix’s
Army of the Dead. The first (new) movie from Snyder in the Snyder Cut-fracas feels poetic in a way after what was arguably the most challenging period in his life, the director is going back to the source.