Dave Bautista as Scott Ward (Netflix) Just with its first 15 minutes, which was made available on YouTube ahead of the film’s release, Zack Snyder’s “Army of the Dead” already got my attention. What follows after those adrenaline-pumping first few minutes confirmed my initial impression of the film: It’s a zombie movie that doesn’t pretend to be anything else. *Some spoilers ahead* Like all good stories, Snyder’s return to the zombie genre puts audiences right in the middle of the action. There’s hardly any backstory or drama-building that happens. There’s not a lot about the characters that you need to know, save from the fact that they will all be out at one point killing zombies. In short, it doesn’t spend unnecessary minutes drumming up reasons for you to connect to its characters—save for the father-daughter dynamic between Dave Bautista’s Scott Ward and Ella Purnell who plays Kate Ward.