I was incredibly sceptical having being promised yet another film about the un-dead. The birth of the Twilight franchise has created a hunger for stories about mildly attractive dead people, falling in love with humans. In reality, necrophilia is disgusting, so I find myself asking, why has this become so popular?
As I began to watch Warm Bodies, I had pretty low expectations and, sadly, even these were not met.
It seems that Jonathon Levine, the director of this catastrophically average film, thought he had a great idea; mix the theme of the hour, with the love story of the century. The film is therefore based loosely on Romeo and Juliet. Levine clearly thought this was a fool-proof plan, mixing a classic with a zombie theme surely can’t go wrong… Sadly, it does.
The father of Julie (Teresa Palmer), played by John Malcovich is an angry vampire killer, and Julie goes out in the world to follow her father’s footsteps when boyfriend Perry is murdered. However, as the murderous zombie (Nicholas Hoult) sets eyes upon Julie, he falls in love with her and decides not to eat her. The story continues fairly uneventfully from here.
The dialogue between the two protagonists is frequently stilted, but to the film’s defence, R is dead. This is mildly disengaging for the audience.
I would not recommend this film. I have already forgotten pretty much all of what happened, having only watched it yesterday. Not worth the cinema ticket. Or the 90 minutes of your life.
Verdict: 3/10
There’s certainly a lot to learn about this topic. I like all of the points you’ve made.