Warm Bodies Review
4/4 Stars
Not Your Average Zombie Flick
It's not often a film knows how to manage to combine comedy, romance, action/adventure, and horror. Well this one does, and frankly, it rocks at it. The great chemistry between the two leads is fantastic. It's what makes us care about what the outcome of the story comes to be.
Set during the zombie apocalypse, R (Nicholas Holt), is a lost zombie. He feels conflicted about eating humans as his food choice, but is forced to as it is his only meal. One day, he, his zombie buddy (Rob Corddary), and others crash into a room where humans are hanging out, he lays his eyes for the first time upon Julie (Tereasa Palmer). He is overcome with something he hasn't been able to feel, love. As the zombies attack, he eats Julies boyfriend (Dave Franco) when she is preoccupied by shooting off the other zombies, also saving his brain (in which he get the memories associated with the guy he ate), and slowly makes his way to her. He causally walks out with her so she is not eaten. He brings her to an abandoned airplane, and proves to her he is not a monster. With love emerging, and his conflicted feeling about her dead boyfriend as he eats more brain and sees more memories of him and Julie, he has to make the decision to go against the state he is in now, and protect Julie.
One thing that easily sets this aside from other zombie flicks is the raw emotion. That is shown throughout as he eats the brain and gets to see the memories of this guy who is something R wishes he was again. Then of course there is the action, which is brutal, but excellent. Then, there is the humor. That is a truly great thing throughout, as it is hilarious when it occurs. Ultimately it just makes a movie that I couldn't have been more impressed with.