I love Romero, especially some of his not too often seen movies like The Crazies (original) and Martin.
So we get an updated version, a more glossier, edgier, scarier update of the Crazies, i for one am not up for classics being remade. I just know somewhere down the line John Boorman's classic Deliverance will be remade unfortunately and Sleep Away Camp.
Anyways, this remake was actually enjoyable, as I do like the actors, Timothy Olyphant plays small town Iowa Sheriff, where people start acting in strange manners and soon whole town is in a pandemic except for a few who aren't affected like the sheriff, his wife and his loyal deputy ( Joe Anderson) who turns in a good performance as the deputy who soon starts turning into a "crazy" and so desperately trying to keep his grip on what is happening but knows he has the "crazies". So we find that the Government had a secret biological weapon that was on a plane that crashed into a swamp and said biological crap got into the town's water supply. Then all hell breaks loose, Government guys come in, the town is under martial law, people getting executed by own government, people who are affected are contained.
This is A good thriller, but lacked what all Romero movies had, the social commentary, where back in the 70s when this was made, Romero touched upon, Government, Military, weapons, cannot trust your military. Stuff like that.
This is just an updated straight thriller/ horror, where it's selling point: quick scares, nice action sequences, cat and mouse chases between Sheriff and Military. A good pop corn movie over all, do no expect anything too deep, in fact I feel this could have been an X Files episode, whole Government Conspiracy crap and all. But I liked it for the performances, over all direction was good, nice soundtrack, some decent scares, good Sat night pop corn movie as i always say.Get more detail about The Crazies [Blu-ray].
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