Dawn of the Dead (2004) Critic Reviews

Don't leave before the final frame -- if you're still breathing. Read the full review

The movie has many of the elements that made the first "Dawn" so darkly entertaining. Read the full review

Good zombie fun, the remake of George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead is the best proof in ages that cannibalizing old material sometimes works fiendishly well. Read the full review

Yes, it's essentially a remake of a sequel, albeit a sequel that happens to be one of the greatest horror movies ever made, but it more than surpasses the original.Read the full review

My only complaint is that its plot flatlines compared to the 1979 version, which was trickier, wittier and smarter. Romero was not above finding parallels between zombies and mall shoppers.Read the full review

It's silly, witty and good-natured, not scary so much as icky, and not horrifying or horrible but consistently amusing.Read the full review

Calling this version of Dawn of the Dead a remake is applying a misnomer. It's more of a re-imagination. Read the full review

Overall, this Dead is zippier than 1995's retake on "Village of the Damned" and somewhat less junky than the recent remake of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre." Read the full review

More palatable than "Texas," Dawn also seems even less necessary, given how effectively the original was reworked last year in Danny Boyle's "28 Days Later." Read the full review