The Dead Don't Die

Utter garbage. Im sure theres something im missing, there has to be.

A little slow but terrific cast for an off beat movie. You want it to end well but it doesn't as Adam Driver tells you over and over again…. The cast saves the movie but being forgettable

Part fun--Part attempted serious but a totally enjoyable time. Some big-time stars here--All seeming to have fun !

The overall negative consensus of this film surprises me. If you go into this not already clued into Jim Jarmuschs style I see how you could miss the intent. I really enjoyed it. Funny, a fun take on the genre and great dry deadpan dialogue. Not for everyone though apparently.

It's insane to me how the director got such an amazing cast, yet made the most boring, bad and useless movie with weird plottwists that don't make any sense. Honestly the worst movie i've ever watched.

Oh my god this movie sucks so bad. Save your time and your money.

I've read a few comments talking about how horrible it is lol and honestly it's not that bad for what it is. Dont go into this movie with high expectations, it's not a serious movie what so ever it's just something they did for the fun of it tbh. This movie isnt like zombie land or Shaun of the dead and it's not ment to be haha. Like people talking about "how do they come to terms that it is zombies right off the bat and nothing else" the reason so is because Adam Driver character Ronnie "Read the script" and Caleb Landry Jones Character Bobby "has seen a lot of zombie movies" lol. Like come on. Hell, the theme of the movie plays on the radio and Bill asks what is this song it sounds familiar?? Adam literally tells him the name of the song and that it's the theme for the movie... like come on lmao you should know not to take this movie seriously. All in all dont go into this expecting something big. I'd say it like a 5.5 or 6 out of 10, but its enjoyable at the score for me.

As the result of polar fracking throwing the Earth off of its axis, a zombie apocalypse is unleashed, forcing the eccentric residents of sleepy Centerville to come to terms with the fact that the end is near. While Jim Jarmusch's The Dead Don't Die has a few laughs that stem from its black humor and has some decent production values, it pretty much falls flat most of the time thanks to its stilted dialogue, drab performances, silly non-sequiturs, and self-referential attitude (one character makes direct reference to Jarmusch's script). You've really got to wonder what drew the impressive cast, which includes the likes of Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Tilda Swinton, Danny Glover, and Steve Buscemi, to the material. Even more odd is the fact that the whole thing was written and directed by Jim Jarmusch. It's all a bit puzzling, really.

Me being a huge fan of zombie movies, I had to watch this one starring so great figures like Bill Murray and Tilda Swimpton. Despite the top quality actors, this is one of the worst movies I've ever seen in my life, if not the worst. It isn't funny at all, even when the movie tries to be, I haven't laughed at not one single joke. It tries to be irreverent but it fails catastrophically, ending up with a bunch of nonsense plots that ultimately converges in the worst ending that could've been imagined by anyone. It isn't good with the subtext neither, since the environmental theme is so on the nose that it cause you regret that you haven't contaminated more the world to destroy it before this movie was released. I wouldn't wish this experience not even for my worst enemy. Seriously, don't watch it.

I was really disappointed with this movie. The cast was filled with so much acting potential, but the story was absolutely hampered by an overabundance of long meaningless pauses, lack of realistic country people, and the idea that no one seems to know what to do during a zombie apocalypse. Yeah, I get that the hermit was responding like and animal and survived by not being human. Yeah, the Tilda Swinton character is an alien and calls for a ride home in a UFO. And that's important because... I love dry, dark humor but this was SOOO slow. Even slowness can be forgiven but this movie made the unforgivable mistake - it was boring. (Dune is slow, but there was so much to see and take in - it wasn't boring, per se.) Cinematically, I thought some of the framing of shots, lighting effects, and camera work would start to reveal some clever details and cool zombie shots later in the movie. I was wrong. (In the diner, there is a patron framed in the background when Steve Buscemi and Danny Glover are talking. It *could* have been used to show context or an action in the background that portends of the future. It didn't. It didn't mean anything.) The humor, if there was much, wasn't original. The gore, of which there was a little, wasn't particularly disgusting or even morbid (the black dust from the destroyed zombies was original, but didn't seem to matter). There are subtle details embedded throughout...that all seem to lead nowhere in the end. All in all, the slow start led to a slow middle and a disappointing ending. Police officers, even small-town officers, have no situational awareness? They have no sense of self preservation? They have no thoughts related to ammo or body armor? If the message of this movie was social commentary about humans losing their way and only the animal-like and aliens will survive, then that message was ridiculous and the only 'funny' thing about it. Nothing in this movie was laugh-out-loud-funny. Nothing in the movie was super dark with social commentary, especially for an apocalypse type zombie movie. Don't waste your time on this movie. If you love dark comedy, you'll hate this. If you love Zombie movies, you'll hate this. If you want a clever, self-aware, cinematically rich dark-humor zombie movie - watch Shaun of the Dead. It has set a standard and this movie is far below that standard.