Army of the Dead ★★☆☆☆

Cheezy but creative fun at first. The opening sequence filled me with hope. But then, all too soon, it got tediously ordinary — just craptastic zombie action with minor embellishments on the genre. “Predictable” doesn’t quite cover it: the direction of the action is so inevitable that all the tension drained out of it. Gosh, do you think the zombie king will appear at the last possible second and jump off the roof into the escaping helicopter?! What’s going to happen? Precisely what you expect, obviously. Sheesh.

But what really kills it is characters that are “incredibly shallow even for the ‘zombie action’ genre.”