The Dead Don't Die

I knew very little about this movie going into it, from what I saw of a couple clips and photos, I was kind of expected a zombie horror maybe akin to Shaun of the Dead coupled with the dry humor that Bill Murray and Adam Driver are good at delivering on. The scenes with those two are absolutely the best thing of this movie because everything else just feels slow paced and drab. You would think given the sizable A-List cast given including Tilda Swinton, Chloe Sevigny, Tom Waits, Steve Buscemi and Danny Glover to name just a few that this has the makings for something special. The bests parts are with Driver and Murray in their squad car just talking together and the self referential comments they make knowing that they are inside a movie are funny. The rest is very heavy fisted commentary on political and environmental state of the world we are in, it is written & directed by Jim Jarmusch who also wrote and directed Broken Flowers, which also starred Bill Murray, which I enjoyed that film quite a bit and actually have it in my DVD collection. I think Jarmusch let his message over power the story of the film. There is also a very random scene with Tilda Swinton’s character that I was just like um what was that and why did that just happen. I would not spend money going out to theaters on this one it’s definitely streaming rental material and I only give it that for Bill Murray and Adam Driver scenes. D.