Dead and Buried...one of the greatest zombie movies of all time
6.5/10
Most anyone willing to give this a go off seeing Sully gonna be sorely disappointed when they see nothing more than an unexplained low budget dystopian future in which two emotionally stunted individuals sidle next to each other in a vehicle that meanders to a weird, barely resolved conclusion. Set in a world you've got to decipher yourself because there is absolutely NO world building or explanation as to why relatively poor folk are living in abandoned apartments that are being systematically cut of resources as the "police" routinely look to move everyone out of the buildings to attain the land, I presume, you've got a sullen middle aged man named Izi who works at a futuristic funeral home in which dead ones are harvested into trees or some shyt instead of buried, sees a funeral of a woman he once knew.
Silelently viewing the shyts, atended only by her son, he is then confronted by said son who questions him as to who he is, while assuming that he's his father or knows about him, because his mother told him that a special person in his life works at the same funeral parlour she was eventually interred at. Both cats aren't exactly known for their social skills and the kid falls into a seemingly bad crowd who's part of the occupants of "The Kitchen" which I guess is one of the last decent squatter high rises left, since the Government/Police have been systematically raiding them and killing/jailing anyone they find within the buildings.
shyt had potential but at the same time, the writing/direction leaves way too many questions that you got to answer yourself, as to why the shyt is the way it is and why so little is being done to combat an oppressive force that's fukking things up without question. I mean, how many times are you going to see your loved ones and neighbours get beaten up, killed, tossed out, during the common place 'scattering' that takes place when these forces run up in these buildings, every few days, before you decide to do something about it?
While the actor who plays Tully has already proven his pedigree as capable of not being just a grime rapper, but an actor who can accurately portray the shyt he sings about, I think the kid in question didn't get a chance to shine as much as he could've with such weak dialogue and direction to the point you'd rather see anyone else on screen but these two, together.
Wouldn't watch again, even if I forget about the shyts.
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Watched this on Hulu. When taking a dip into debauchery goes very wrong. Alexander Skarsgard isn't afraid to go weird in his acting roles and Mia Goth is both funny and kinda terrifying in this. Was hoping to see Cleopatra Coleman more, since I haven't seen her in a lot since Last Man on Earth.