The Dead Don't Die (2019)
½ — The Dead Don't Die (2019)
Jim Jarmusch had spent four decades building a reputation as American independent cinema's most reliably deadpan auteur, from Stranger Than Paradise (1984) through to Paterson (2016), before turning his hand to zombie comedy with The Dead Don't Die. The film arrived in 2019 as part of a modest wave of genre-literate horror comedies riding the post-Get Out critical appetite for films using monsters as cultural commentary. Jarmusch assembled a characteristically sprawling ensemble of his regular collaborators, Murray and Driver joined by Tilda Swinton, Steve Buscemi and Iggy Pop among others. Production was split between the United States, Sweden and Japan, with funding from the long-standing Jarmusch-friendly Japanese company Longride co-financing alongside Animal Kingdom.
I'd rather sandpaper my gonads than watch this trash again. My bald friend recommended it to me and so now I will never trust another recommendation from him. Probably the worst movie I've ever seen in my life. I LOVE zombie films typically. Some of my favourite films of all time are the Romero classics, 28 days series (not zombies, I know), Shaun of the Dead etc... and so going into this with a really strong cast, I had hopes. This movie from the outset was poorly acted (they look like they didn't even want to be there), poorly paced, and overall didn't really have any sort of idea of what sort of movie it actually wanted to be. Overall, it was just BORING. They kept breaking the 4th wall, just to make 'in-jokes' between the director and the cast, which was about as fun as plucking my Grandad's arse hair. By the end... when a fucking UFO turns up for absolutely zero reason, I was just begging for it to end. I've seen some shit in my time but this is probably going to hold it's place as the worst movie of all time by a long-shot.
Rating: ½ | Year: 2019 | Watched: 2025-02-12
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