I am not sure what I rather do, listen to Fran Dresser talk about political reform for three hours or sit through another sitting of the new movie, The Crazies. I wish I was exaggerating. As I am writing this review, I am trying to conjure some positive feelings about this movie, but I literally can not think of one. For some reason this movie is currently debuting at a 71% positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, which is a very respected movie review sight. What I am trying to figure out is whether we both sat through the same movie. I should have known to stay away from this movie, considering it is a remake of the 1973 cult classic The Crazies. I guess when Hollywood starts remaking C grade movies at best, its time to run for the hills.

In a normal movie review, I would spend some time focusing on the plot and development of the characters. Except this movie has rarely either of those. The plot is simple, a military plane crashes in the marshes of Iowa somehow contaminating the water supply with some sort of chemical (which is never clearly explained what chemical it is) and then all of sudden people start going crazy. That’s it folks, the entire plot in a nutshell. This leads to the town Sheriff played by Timothy Olyphant (the only noteworthy actor), his wife who is pregnant, the deputy officer and some other random girl avoiding the military and infection. By the way it is never clearly explained how people get infected or why they get infected. I guess you’re just supposed to make some reason for why the infection is spreading and making everyone go crazy. Sure this does make for some entertaining parts of crazy people getting their heads blown off, but after awhile when there is zero substance to the story, it gets a bit tiresome. Especially, the ways the people are dying are not even that well thought out to begin.

The essential problem here is this movie has been done thousands of times by Hollywood. Do we really need another Zombie based movie? Once again, seeing that George A. Romero produced it, I should have been forewarned this was going to be another pointless movie. I can not deny that the original Dawn of the Dead was a cult classic, but come on George; you have remade that movie about fifteen times. Enough is enough. If I wanted to watch some classic Zombie or infected people based movies, I would turn on Night of the Living Dead, which Romero executed with a brilliant plot and great characters, but we do not need more of the same, especially when it is far worse than the originals. I will take it one step further; I would rather listen to Ellen DeGeneres meaningless remarks on American Idol that sit through this cluster bomb of a movie again. Don’t say I did not warn you.