War Of The Dead ( Stone´s War )

I love zombies. The more zombies, the better. The more body parts, the better. Am i totally sick? Yes, and i love it. For those who know me personally, they know how much zombies means to me. Zombies is the answer to almost everything, they don´t care about skin colour, if you´re gay or straight, they just want to feed on your flesh. There are so many zombie movies out there, some are really good, some are terrible. The Walking Dead gave zombie fans a fantastic view on this concept, in a very well made tv series. Norway tried this genre with a combination of nazi zombies in Dead Snow. Now, our neighbour country Finland is in the game with War Of The Dead. Does zombies in Finland bring anything fresh, or should they have stayed away and listen to Lordi records instead?

Captain Martin Stone ( Andrew Tiernan ) is leader of a elite platoon. Out on a mission to attack a bunker, everything goes wrong and their plans go straight to hell. The whole platoon is forced to go back into the forest. Just as they regroup, they find out that the soldiers who were killed earlier, have returned to life. As they are forced to go deeper into russian territory, they soon find out what is really going on.

I have only seen a few movies from Finland, but none of them we´re interesting. So it is a great suprise to see what a well made production director Marko Mäkilaakso have put together, on a budget of 1.3 million euros. There are plenty of action scenes, mixed with horror influences, wich match great together. The only problem i have with War Of The Dead is that we have seen this before, many times. So you basically know how it all will end. But thanks to descent acting, as well as nice camera work, i know fans of movies like Feast or Dog Soldiers will enjoy this one. There seem to be a reason why so many swedish movie sucks, we don´t dare to cross limits and try something different. War Of The Dead may not be groundbreaking, but this movie shows what swedish directors should try, instead of the same pattern. Simple ideas works better sometimes than complicated ones.

Rating: DDD