Awake not Woke!

This is typical of modern late to the party sequels thought it's probably a little better than most. It manages to maintain the feel and atmosphere of the originals for the most part. All the usual tropes, cliché story, all the legacy characters show up for limited screen time looking old and just sad. Your enjoyment of this movie will probably heavily depend on your nostalgia of the originals, if you've never seen them then this will probably not be very good either. The director does a good job of capturing the feel of the franchise but it's painfully obvious he's in way over his head. It's another instance of an unproven nobody being handed a job he's unqualified for. This guy's sole directing credits are a handful of less shorts less than 5 minutes long then gets to direct a 150 million dollar action franchise movie? How does this happen? Then there is the usual woke problems as well. Axel has a scene at the beginning that appears to make fun of the woke white liberal racists then 10 minutes later plays the police victimize blacks card. There are 2 ridiculous DEI female officers that are clearly there for a reason. There are multiple modern woke comments and mentalities scattered throughout. Axel's daughter hijacks a good portion of the movie and the constant whining about her dysfunctional family gets old fast and serves to just pad out film time. Her acting is not very good, she's not likable and she gets more annoying as the movie goes on. She is a defense attorney that takes on a case for an innocent Spanish male that she just believes immediately for no real reason and with zero evidence at that point. She is involved with a white male so we can check the mixed race box. There are multiple characters that appear to be gay or at least beta's based on speech and mannerisms. There is a very flamboyant obviously gay Spanish drug dealer in a weird gay bar with half naked men walking around. At no point is any of this stuff the focus of the movie or is it preached about but it is present and it is there for a reason. This may be worth a watch depending on your tolerance for woke.

Pushes the free health care agenda

Surprisingly funny

A unique indie silent film, nothing like the usual, with a touch of classic film noir and some cartoony humor thrown in. Great for all ages. Absolutely nothing woke about it.

Instead of raising the bar, they somehow lowered it even more (if that’s even possible compared to the second movie, obviously).

Which brings me to the fans and defenders of this garbage who basically act like the second one never even existed 🤷🏻‍♂️ because not even they defend it. LOL. So there’s that, kind of incomprehensible, but totally in line with the movie’s level of writing. It’s entertaining if you watch it just to have a good time with friends and treat it like one of those horror movies that are so bad they end up being funny. ⚠ SPOILER ALERT ⚠ Nothing is redeemable: the father-son dialogue happening during the initiation ritual, the obese zombies who can only afford to eat worms, the whole broken-family drama where, while the mom is dying of cancer, the husband cheats on her with the town’s schoolteacher, a mom who goes from bedridden to suddenly hiking with her son, the zombie’s dick that looks like Jason Momoa, an infected woman giving birth where we’re shown that women support each other no matter what and that a zombie apocalypse doesn’t matter at all. A Voldemort knockoff covered in iodine who collects bones and sees the mother as a nice skull to crown his masterpiece, a son who ends up climbing the pile of bones to place his mother’s skull on top (not before giving it a goodbye kiss) and a finale where the Power Rangers show up swinging nunchucks. FOR GOD’S SAKE!!! WHAT THE HELL DID I JUST WATCH HAHAHAHAHA.