Movie Review: We Bury the Dead


The new movie “We Bury the Dead”, has a logline on IMDB that reads: “After a catastrophic military disaster, the dead don’t just rise – they hunt. Ava searches for her missing husband, but what she finds is far more terrifying.”

This movie will likely rank as one of the most boring and innocuous zombie movies of all time. Yes, this is yet another zombie movie; however, this one has an amazingly low count of violent zombie scenes or any zombie scenes, after a woman, Ava, played by Daisy Ridley, arrives in New Zealand, the site of this military accident, and tries to find her husband Mitch, played by Matt Whelan with the help of another man, Clay, played by Brenton Thwaites.

The rest of this film is nothing more than an unexpectedly long and boring trek with Ava and Clay through New Zealand to travel 300 miles south to the site of the resort where Ava’s husband was staying. The majority of the victims of this military accident are dead, but a small percentage of the victims become alive and, for reasons unknown, cause only very minor incidents as Clay and Ava travel south. I remember wondering at the time, is this a zombie movie or a travelogue of New Zealand? Also, this movie is so boring it was hard to believe this could ever be considered an action movie, or even a drama.

The high Rotten Tomatoes ratings for this bad movie are 84%, which is as crazy as this bad zombie movie. The audience rating is a more accurate 49%. Before it’s too late, the producer should change the title from “We Bury the Dead” to “We Bury this Movie”. This one is a huge miss and receives a 10% rating.

Movie Review: Anaconda


The new movie “Anaconda” is not a remake of the 1997 movie “Anaconda” that starred Jennifer Lopez, John Voight, and Ice Cube. This new version is about four people who are friends, who decide to make a “reboot” of the movie Anaconda, which means that this is a movie about making another movie that was released 28 years ago. There is no doubt that this is a new idea for a screenplay, but unfortunately, it is so idiotic, unfunny, and stupid that there is no way this film should have been greenlit and financed for $45 million dollars.

The most amazing thing about this bad movie is why Paul Rudd, Jack Black, Steve Zahn, and Thandiwe Newton could have read this script, agreed to fly to Australia for months of hardship to make a movie that is this so obviously bad. This film is supposed to be a parody or comedy of the original Anaconda movie, but there was not one laugh in the audience I was in, and almost no moment that was even slightly amusing. Ironically, the movie that was worse than this movie was the film the characters were trying to make inside of this idiotic mess. Then during this story, the four friends run into another production crew also trying to make another reboot of Anaconda. What level of drug use is required to think of this many bad ideas for one film?

The Rotten Tomatoes ratings for this bad movie is only 50%, with my rating 10% and a recommendation to “whatever you do, miss this disaster of movie making at all costs”.

Uber Commercial Review: An Uber Holiday Story


This is a first for this blog, reviewing a commercial that is making the rounds in movie theaters. It is so good it could be considered a great “mini movie” with important chronological life events and emotions as powerful as you will ever see within a real two hour film. Its about a single father and the life – both the ups and downs – he has had with this daughter. This is an outstanding 2 minute and 31 second commercial, just about the best I have ever seen.