I really loved the movie. It has also been a long time since a movie made me laugh out loud spontaneously (that vault scene killed me). Like I said in the title, it has a lot of references to 80s action and horror movies. Like the movies in those days, it's self-aware. It knows exactly what it is and it doesn't try to be anything else. It's a plain and simple badass action/horror movie. I really don't understand the bad reviews. It's a Netflix movie, not a blockbuster with a 200 million budget. It follows the same premise of other action/horror movies I love, like Predator (or have you forgotten that cool but cringy opening scene with Weathers and Arnold?). I really loved how the Director mixed several genres, the references to Greek mythology, the reference to the great Joseph Campbell, and of course, the reference to several of my favorite 80s movies. The use of the vintage lenses with such narrow aperture was also pretty cool, because not only it made the movie more claustrophobic, it also gave it a unique style. Also, if you're looking into an explanation for the alpha zombies, you might want to check out carefully the opening scene when the trucks are leaving Area 51. The answer is there.
Review of Army of the Dead
