{"id":12849,"date":"2007-05-19T13:32:18","date_gmt":"2007-05-19T17:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=12849"},"modified":"2007-05-19T13:32:18","modified_gmt":"2007-05-19T17:32:18","slug":"gangs-of-the-dead-last-rites-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/19\/gangs-of-the-dead-last-rites-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"Gangs of the Dead (Last Rites) (2006)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“Put on some news, I wanna hear about dead muthafuckas out there eating cops like it’s a barbecue!”<\/p>\n

Yo son, check dis son, I\u2019m from da Bronx son, and I just finished watching \u201cGangs of the Dead.\u201d See, what makes \u201cGangs of the Dead\u201d so clever is because it\u2019s a double entendre, son. It ain\u2019t just gangs of the dead, it\u2019s gangs, as in groups of the dead. So it\u2019s clever and not as stupid as y\u2019all think. So I sat here wit ma forty, and laughed ma nuts off, while firing off ma glock. Naw, son, word is bond, I\u2019m sick of zombie movies, son. The zombies in here, they all look like nothing but filthy hobos and alcoholics you see under the bridge in da streets. And wouldn\u2019t you know it, now we got a bunch of black stereotypes being haunted by those flesh eating bastards, and I sit here trying to think of a reason not to turn ma glock on my head\u2026 son.<\/p>\n

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A meteor crashes in the city with nary a police report, but this doesn\u2019t stop the dead from rising. Now, there is a Hispanic gang of stereotypes, a black gang of stereotypes, officer stereotype, and a few clich\u00e9s trying to fight off the walking dead in a warehouse during a heat wave. Hard out here for a pimp, eh? Three convoluted subplots pollute the screen as an impending gang war is interrupted by a police sting, and then the walking dead intervene. No clich\u00e9 is left unturned except for one. Usually in gangster flicks I see the gangs gather in a warehouse and drive their cars in, which would mean easy escape once surrounded by the walking dead.<\/p>\n

Instead, the cars are outside, and shit hits the fan. Damn dumb ass gangsters. Reggie Bannister is along for the ride as one of the least convincing gang members and police officers I\u2019ve ever seen, but that\u2019s toppled by the \u201cmassive\u201d police sting made up of two cop cars, and a small surveillance van. And there\u2019s also my favorite one-liner of the ninety minute suckfest: \u201cBums are eating cops out there, man.\u201d The fun just doesn\u2019t stop there, this film is intent on sky rocketing every racial clich\u00e9 in the book, and there\u2019s simply not enough story here. So, we\u2019re forced to sit through endless dialogue about gang warfare, and the gang members arguing amongst each other, while we watch the walking dead eat the living\u2026 or as many of the living that are usually found near warehouses.<\/p>\n

Not to mention, the film basically becomes a poor man’s “Day of the Dead” with Noel Gugliemi going incredibly over the top as the low grade Capt. Rhodes ordering folks around, screaming at every step, and eventually meeting his fate at the many hands of the walking dead. \u201cGangs of the Dead\u201d takes itself way too seriously, considering its awful title, and cheesy zombies, and that\u2019s a shame. The laughs here could have been planned, instead of unintentional, and embarrassing. It sucks hard, but then, what would you expect from a movie with a title like \u201cGangs of the Dead\u201d? Racial stereotypes aplenty, utterly boring zombies, and a convoluted series of unresolved sub-plots make up your typical terrible horror film for the home video market. Every time I think zombie films are good, there\u2019s always something to bring me back to reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Put on some news, I wanna hear about dead muthafuckas out there eating cops like it’s a barbecue!” Yo son, check dis son, I\u2019m from da Bronx son, and I just finished watching \u201cGangs of the Dead.\u201d See, what makes \u201cGangs of the Dead\u201d so clever is because it\u2019s a double entendre, son. It ain\u2019t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[58,240,385,391,477,501,1221],"class_list":["post-12849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-action","tag-crime","tag-g","tag-gangster","tag-horror","tag-indie-film","tag-zombies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}