If you are looking for the simple horror of a zombie flick. Then the suspense and action of Diary is better than Land of the Dead, but not as good as Romero's Dawn of the Dead. If you take the time to understand the true horror of the movie; the reflection of what we value, where we have become as a society and the truths about humanity, then you can really appreciate a deeper message besides the "run for your life" motivation. It doesn't matter if the world is falling apart from zombies, war, disease. It's more about obsession; our need for visual stimulation and how dependent we've become on using various media to communicate. Dawn of the Dead scared me, this one made me think of how scary life has become. Loved it. The actors were new, raw and didn't make the usual ego trips of new actors trying to make a name for themselves. They just tried to be the character, and that made the movie both entertaining and acceptable....for a zombie flick, they did great.

Let me start by saying that I am a huge Romero fan. I like EVERYTHING the man has made...except this dreadful waste of film. This move wasn't just bad, it was among the worst movies that I have ever seen. The story goes nowhere, like they wrote it as they were filming. The acting is horrible. I know that when you read "horrible" you may be thinking "really bad" or "very unpleasant", but watching those people act is closer to finding out that you have a brain parasite or that you just ran over you sister with the car. The only good acting in the entire movie was the performance by the Amish farmer...and he was deaf so he had no lines! My wife isn't as much of a Romero fan and only tolerates my love of zombie films because she loves me so damn much. How she sat through the entire thing is entirely beyond me. I was trying so hard to like it but she has the patience of a god. All copies of the movie should be buried and the ground salted so that nothing will ever grow.

I traveled out of my way to see the latest George Romero Diary and was very disappointed with the film. His last was not his best either but I love the genre so I gave him another chance. Do not waste your time. If you must see it, wait for the dvd. You are not missing anything. Boring and unbelievable, and this is a zombie film I am talking about.

I have a love/hate relationship with zombie movies. I love to see them, but I hate zobmies. This movie was extremely painful to watch. Usually in a horror movie there is at least one character you would like to live throughout the entire movie. I spent the movie wishing for ALL the characters to die. There was no character develpoment and the dialouge was TERRIBLE. However, beyond all that the zombies were wrong. They moved quickly, they were a little smart. One was smart enough to move back a curtain before walking into the room. And one jumped on someone. ZOMBIES DO NOT JUMP! Also as far a I knew zombies are pretty strong.. not these zombies. These zombies were smart but weak. By far the worst "of the Dead" movie I have seen. This wasn't a George A. Romero movie, at least it wasn't to his standard. Don't bother seeing this movie, just stay home and rent "Dawn of the Dead" that was funny and smart oh and the zombies were done correctly.