Zach Snyder’s new Las Vegas zombie heist romp shows film’s long love affair with the undead is very much alive and kickingFor devotees of maximalist blockbuster merchant Zack Snyder, you’d think 2021 had already yielded quite enough excitement.
The result of what online fan armies can achieve through sheer vocal persistence, the director’s four-hour cut of his botched 2017 superhero pileup Justice League – out on DVD on Monday – was released on Sky Cinema and Now TV in March, though its colossal swelling of essentially generic material probably won few converts to the Snyder cult.Yet two months later, another great big slab of Snyder has landed on Netflix, and this one’s more fun.
Weighing in at a comparatively modest 148 minutes, his Las Vegas-set zombie heist romp Army of the Dead is a cheerful hodgepodge of genres that largely dispenses with the murky self-importance of his superhero
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