Warm Bodies (2013)

Perfect cast and a good story

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

In a post-apocalyptic world, where most of the population was turned into zombies and some into walking skeletons, R is a pretty unusual member of the undead. He collects stuff, he spends "quality" time in an airplane, and, most importantly, he thinks. In his situation, he saves a girl who got surrounded while scouting for medicine and tries, in his own way, to communicate with her. Although scared as hell in the beginning, she starts to enjoy R's company, creating some sort of human zombie connection. From this moment, R slowly turns more and more alive, but as his evolution becomes more pronounced, he becomes a target of the "Bonies", so he must do something fast before he will be eaten (almost) alive.It's a pretty atmospheric horror movie, featuring an unusual zombie who is determined to change and receives some unexpected help from a living being, which he saves. It sends emotion and tension, and although it starts very slowly, almost boringly slowly, it gains pace and becomes interesting. While it is mostly predictable, but not in a bad way, and some events are rather questionable, it manages to be a very good watch, with a happy ending which put a smile to my previously sad face.

This movie does two things; 1. show a zombie-apocalypse from a new perspective, and 2. everything it can with something that is not new or super high-concept. Fantastically displays how zombies feel and how socially anxious they would be. It is amazing how it manages to portray such a relatable zombie. This is a typical love story so it does have some tropes here and there, like the "come sleep in the same bed as me scene", but the fact that it merges two very derivative narratives provides freshness in both spaces, so the movie earns those tropes. It also sort of plays like a Disney fairy-tale. You've got transformation/curse, unlikely romance and even a disapproving father.

It was awful. Hell, the word "awful" doesn't even begins to describe how I felt watching the movie.It's like "what if deadheads wasn't funny and it's ending was stretched to the whole movie".Cheesy, uninteresting, bad special effects & action scenes, idiotic solution to the whole mess. "Make zombies feel emotions and they'll turn human yeehh" NO. Know what? I would have accepted the solution if the movie would have executed it well. But it didn't. God awful movie.You'll like this movie if you're a 13yo girl with "pale guys" fetish, or something of the sort.

a strange film. because it ignores a genre rules and the trend. because it propose a different Romeo and a different Juliet and mix love story, zombie's adventures, emotions, humor and thriller in inspired manner. a film who surprise almost in each scene. and that is its great virtue - to transform, in smart manner, a well known story, being scary and seductive, dramatic and using pieces from old fashion romantic comedies. and the entire work becomes , at its end, a convincing pledge for tolerance. because all is at its right place. the make-up, the acting, the story, the atmosphere, the delicacy of gestures, the different aspects of a friendship for survive who remains in transformation scene by scene. a teenage movie, sure. but only at the first sigh.