Welcome back to another edition of Trailer Time.This is the place where we post interesting trailers for movies, television shows, games and more. For this installment of Trailer Time we’ve got Zack Snyder’s upcoming zombie heist opus Army of the Dead.
The film, which hits Netflix on May 21st, finds Snyder returning to the world of zombies for a heist film set in Vegas against the backdrop of a zombie apocalypse. The heroes must complete their heist while also fighting and surviving against, well, an army of the dead. Okay, we’re interested.
And say what you will about Snyder’s other work (trust us, we have), but at least his films aren’t boring and are often very entertaining. Also, they usually feature good action, striking visuals and even a decent performance or two (we kid, we kid). This one looks to be no exception.
Army of the Dead features an ensemble cast including Dave Bautista, Ella Purnell, Ana de la Reguera, Garret Dillahunt, Theo Rossi, Tig Notario and Hiroyuki Sanada. It’s directed by Snyder from a script he wrote with Shay Hatten and Joby Harold, based on a story by Snyder.
Check out the trailer below. Look for Army of the Dead on Netflix May 21st.
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It has cowboys. It has aliens. It has cowboys and aliens. It’s not a bad film. It’s not a good film. It is a movie. That’s a pretty lackluster opener, but, walking out of the screening, I felt almost completely neutral about Cowboys and Aliens–it was like the things I liked and the things I disliked were in perfect balance.
The film doesn’t fail to deliver on anything the title promises, and you can lose count of the standard tropes from either genre that it hits, but it’s tough to maintain the toothy grin I expected all throughout. Though I’m getting ahead of myself.
Daniel Craig plays Jake Lonergan (one of many last names I suspect are puns but am not entirely sure), a notorious outlaw who awakes one morning with a heavy case of amnesia and one hell of a bracelet on his left arm. He makes his way to the nearest town, controlled by the gruff cattle rancher Colonel Woodrow Dolarhyde (Harrison Ford) and his uppity son Percy (Paul Dano), whose favorite pastime is terrifying the community at large and in particular the local bartender (Sam Rockwell) and his wife (Ana de la Reguera).
It’s not long before Jake endears himself to the locals, among them the soused preacher (Clancy Brown), the woman with a secret (Olivia Wilde), and, naturally, the sheriff (Keith Carradine) by punching out Percy, and not long after that that his identity is revealed, and he’s locked up. Still less longer, the aliens arrive, capture a handful of significant townsfolk, and everyone’s differences are set aside as they form a posse to recover the abductees. ‘round about this time, Jake discovers that his bracelet is able to sense the aliens and, better yet, can blow ‘em up real good.
