After a catastrophic military disaster, the dead don’t just rise – they hunt. The military insist they are harmless and slow-moving, offering hope to grieving families. But when Ava (Daisy Ridley) enters a quarantine zone searching for her missing husband, she uncovers the horrifying truth: the undead are growing more violent, more relentless, and more dangerous with every passing hour.
What We Thought:
We Bury the Dead isn’t the greatest movie in the world, but it at least tries something new in the very crowded zombie subgenre of horror. Daisy Ridley gives a decent enough performance and holds your attention throughout, but the film is a bit of a slowburn.
It’s about a disaster in Tasmania that wipes out a huge chunk of the population. As an American myself I didn’t like that they blamed us for it, but I’ll let that slide. Daisy Ridley plays an American whose husband was there for a company event so she joins the clean up crew hoping to find her husband. She has a plan to get outside the containment/clean up area to see if he’s still alive. People are tasked in finding dead bodies and pulling them out of buildings, but some are coming back to life. If they find a turned one, the military will come in and put them down again. On the job she convinces a man (Brenton Thwaites) to help her break containment. On their journey they are taken by a soldier and Ridley has to find a way to escape before she can see if her husband survived.
The biggest problem with the movie is that despite being a zombie type film, there isn’t a whole lot of zombie action in it. Only a few have turned and none really “attack” or cause harm. It’s more a drama about Ridley trying to find her husband and dealing with humans as her biggest difficulty. Zombie diehards will be disappointed in it, but if you are looking for a drama it’s not bad.
We Bury the Dead tries to do something different with how this zombie apocalypse was created, but I don’t know if it’s something I’d watch again. It’s good for a watch, but I don’t see it becoming a flick zombie fans will go crazy over. Daisy Ridley fans will enjoy it for her performance and I thought Brenton Thwaites was solid too. If you are a person that needs to see every zombie film give it a watch, but don’t expect Dawn of the Dead.
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