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‘Army Of The Dead’ Keeps Threatening Us With A Good Time

Then, during the second act, they have to sneak/fight past a bunch of “hibernating” indoor zombies — which the guide again warns will re-activate with bright lights or loud noises.

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So is the audience.

And before that action scene ends, your brain has done the movie maths: setup plus reminder equals holy shit, it’s going to start raining, and a literal wave of zombies is going to pour into the crew’s blinking casino! Yet no zombie horde ever manifests. In fact, this is the last time there are more dead shamblers on screen than there are dead pixels.

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These zombies literally never go anywhere. 

These cinematic blue balls keep occurring, though some feel a lot more cynical than accidental. Did you expect something to happen with the weird glowy-eyed zombies in the crowd of clever alphas?

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If they blink, you’d miss it.

You definitely did when one of them then gets headshot to reveal a bunch of metal and wires in its skull.

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“I’ll be back – that’s kind of my thing as a zombie.”

But that’s it. No explanation, no Bautista/zombot fight, not even just a quick scene where some four-star general gets told that “Operation Metal Walker” was a success. The Terminator-zombies are obviously meant to be a tease for an upcoming sequel — but you can’t keep throwing the same easter egg at the audience’s head and not have them expect that the Easter Bunny at least makes a post-credit cameo in the movie they’re currently watching. 

The same happens with the zombified Siegfried and Roy tiger that roams the strip. You know, the one that made your brain start chanting: Tiger Fight! Tiger Fight!

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Tiger Fight!

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