Warm Bodies Review
Year: 2013
Stars: Nicholas
Hoult, Teresa Palmer, John Malkovich
Directed:
Jonathan Levine
Running Time:
98 mins
Written and directed by Jonathan Levine (50/50, The
Wackness and All the Boy’s Love Mandy Lane a favourite of mine) seems
reasonably strong in both areas.
We join Nicholas Hoult (famous for x-men first class and
clash of the titans and the upcoming jack the giant killer) in what I thought
was a strong performance where he plays an unusual zombie named R. Unusual as
he’s slightly more aware than most of the other shambling corpses. To the
extent he has his own crash pad inside an unused aeroplane, I might add here
that there’s been a zombie apocalypse and there’s only one human settlement
left walled off. After a good description by R what zombie life is like him and
his friend M another semi-conscious zombies go with a group of other zombies in
search of food (humans)
A group of teens chosen to go out around the same time to
collect some resources, this film has some brilliant tongue in cheek moments
describing how zombies go about things. Also in this film seems zombies go
through a change after a while their skin comes off and they turn into *bonies*
totally transformed and not human in anyway.
So the inevitable happens they meet a fight breaks out
where R see’s Julie (Teresa Palmer another good performance she’s from I am
number 4 and the sorcerer’s apprentice) he gets a strange feeling until Julies
boyfriend shoots him, he switches back to zombie mode and attacks eats bits of and
takes her boyfriend’s brains in his pocket.
He then advances on Julie who tries to stop him, she
gives up and awaits a brain eating R wipes his blood over her masking her scent
from the other zombies and tells her to follow.
He takes her back to his crash pad where more interaction
with her starts turning him more and more human waking memories etc.
Now I’ll tell you a few key points here now, Julie’s dad
is the leader, army general of the safe zone. Zombies gain memories of the
brains they eat and feel more alive, so he sees and gets memories from Julie’s
bf’s brains.
Now this film shows human nature and explores if we have
the capacity to change our conceptions in both ways through the humans and the
zombies. I think bonies represent the nay Sayers that are everywhere that will
not change any matter what.
So Julie finds out about R eating her boyfriend as R
becomes sorrier about it and tells her. We than get one of them moments in
films like this where they split wondering if they can change and if there’s
any point. Julie goes back to her place R to his and finds out halfway there
that his becoming human has infected the rest of human like zombies.
R proceeds to go back and tell Julie about the change and
that the bonies are chasing them also because they can sense they are a threat.
Julie tries to convince her dad that they can change but he doesn’t listen to
begin with isn’t it always the same?
When the soldier realise that the normal zombies are
helping them fight the bonies they join together and kill them off. I know I don’t
usually spoil the endings here at The Horror Nation but it’s easy to see with
this movie yes they slowly become human again through interaction with the
humans.
Right nit-picks Julie got over and forgave about her
boyfriend possibly to easy considering they really seemed to be in love it is
explained that she was kind of prepared for a while but meh I think I’d be a
bit more upset at losing someone than that. More John Malkovich would have been
nice. Meeting the boyfriend in R’s head seemed a little morbid, even more so
when Julie talked about him, hence they seemed in love but she forgave easy
part.
And the film seemed to end a bit quickly but I do see
what extra could they have added? Someone discovering the bonies/zombies making
their way to their base (though they are supposedly the last settlement) better
than just a random report? I suppose.
Lastly we humans are ruthless; if we’d walked into
zombies fighting like that we would have mown them all down.
Things I liked the zombie effects and make up were top
class, expected in a mainstream film to, the CGI a little lacklustre as there
only really seemed to be 2 maybe 3 different bonies just repeated over a number
of times, though they were good and detailed!
The storyline well I haven’t been glued to a film like
that for quite a while to be honest I don’t know why either I found the film
passed past fast and I was left mostly pleased by the outcome, despite it at its
basic level being a rom-com! With the nit-picks I give this film a solid 4
stars out of 5 and say it’s well worth paying to go see
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