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| Feb 15, 2008
Land of the Dead: Universal Pictures

Land of the Dead

(2005)

DIRECTOR Romero

CALL IT... The One That Might Be Romero's Last

PREMISE Smart zombies are on a mission to take down Fiddler's Green, a luxury apartment building in one of the last cities standing.

BEST ZOMBIE Big Daddy (Eugene Clark, center), who not only leads the dead, but teaches them how to reason.

GORIEST DEATH An army guy blows himself up, falling on a grenade after his hand is sliced off by a zombie.

WHAT EW SAID ''Listless and uninspired,'' Land of the Dead sends the zombie genre ''back into rigor mortis.'' Movie Grade: C- (Read the review)