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After a simple incident of crowd interference in a baseball game, Ogden Marsh is stripped of any peace or tranquility. When the town drunk stumbles onto the baseball field carrying his shotgun, Sherriff David Dutton, played by the first-rate Timothy Olyphant (known best as the porn producer in “The Girl Next Door” and the cyber-terrorist in “Live Free or Die Hard”) confronts and eventually guns down the inexplicably aggressive drunk, as the entire town attentively stares through the baseball diamond’s chain link fence. The scene...
What happens when a U.S. military plane carrying a chemical weapon (codenamed “Trixie”), meant to “destabilize a population,” crashes, and accidently releases the weapon into the water supply of the pleasant, unassuming town of Ogden Marsh, Iowa? Turns out people go a little crazy...
...Ogden Marsh is immediately and unknowingly placed under quarantine by the military in order to prevent a global pandemic. Dutten and his crew must not only avoid raging zombies but trigger-happy, flame-throwing, gas-masked soldiers. Olyphant is no newcomer to the big screen, but his acting ability and future prospects should not be questioned; his performance in the film is capped off by a memorable one-liner that is sure to have audiences cheering...
...story fans out from its Anytown-Goes-Crazytown first half-hour into a besieged-heroes scenario, in which David, Judy and Russell are hemmed in both by the zombie-ish locals and the military in hazmat suits, who have come to contain the plague at the cost of Ogden Marsh's very existence. It's an efficient thriller, with scare weapons ranging from the primitive (a pitchfork) to the apocalyptic (an A bomb). The acting is only horror-film-functional, and you might wish that our trio of renegades knew a few basic laws of the genre...
...original film, Romero tested the viewer's sympathies, partly balancing the plight of the few uninfected townsfolk with the attempt of a Colonel and a scientist to find a cure. The remake dispenses with these nuances, turning the military into a vague, malevolent force that spies from above on Ogden Marsh, then quarantines or removes the townspeople. By doing so it exploits the enmity, across the political spectrum, for people in power. Its sour view of government intervention would suit both the American Left in the Bush-Cheney era and the Tea Party today. As we watch the three people...