Land of the Dead 4K 2005 Ultra HD 2160p

The remnants of humanity are trapped within the walls of a fortified city, and the walking dead inhabit the vast expanse beyond. A few rich and powerful people try to recreate the illusion of life - as it was - by settling high above the city in the skyscrapers of Fiddler's Green, the last bastion of the ruling class. And in the streets beneath these luxurious buildings, the city's less fortunate inhabitants lead a miserable life of subsistence by the most degrading means - gambling, body trading, and drug dealing - anything that provides any escape from the hell their existence has become.

Gradually, restlessness and anarchy reign among the inhabitants of the urban underworld, and beyond the walls, the army of the dead changes and develops, learning how to organize and communicate...

User Review
Unfortunately, it's your fault. When you were little, you were never taught to stomp on your neighbor's eggs with your feet. Someone brought some yard verses to school: “I was walking one day, I looked - on the road the corpse of a child is slowly rotting, and an old man, with his legs spread wide, sucking the brain from the skull, slurping...”, and you immediately realized that you couldn't memorize all the verses even if you couldn't. All other classmates memorized, wrote down, archived, that then passed the baton to their own little children. It is no coincidence that horror movies of cadaverous, corporeal disgusting orientation are so popular. And do not need to get into Freud-Jung-Adler, to understand the differences between those who have it popular. Well, what, manic complacency and firm belief in their own immortality, for which as many others as possible should rot? Or, alternatively, a firm belief in the inconclusiveness of their death and resentment of the mortal body as such, which is avenged by debauchery, gluttony, sports, alcoholism and plastic surgery? Who cares, if Land of the Dead (2005) is to be endured for them anyway, to be written and narrated? That's the job, atonement, and you're not a little kid anymore.

Back on the other world George Romero simply revived all the previous afterlife novelties - Dawn of the Dead/ (2004), Resident Evil, “Stat Counselor” (2005). They really are a joyous kindergarten next to this return. “Land of the Dead” will show you everything big and even bigger. A half-decayed jaw with teeth sticking out of the cheek. The remains of a noseless face with worms crawling out of it. Skulls blown off, split open by bullets, scattered bitten off fingers lying on the road, and how they are walked on, walked on, picked up and eaten. Lots of heads cut off and dangling on a string. Many heads crushed by the tracks of an armored car. A legless stump clinging to a footstool. How the stomachs of the living are ripped open and their entrails eaten. Stepping on the eggs or biting them off too. And all around, splatters whipping from headless necks, and eyeballs lying in the dirt being blown apart by explosions. When there's so much of that, and there's almost nothing else, though there should be, all the humor is squeezed out a drop at a time. Humor, where have you been? It's clear from Land of the Dead that the afterlife is internally programmatic for Romero. This is his worldview, based on the fact that we really live very little. We are alive for nothing, the rest of the time (hundreds of years, thousands, millions) you and I, gentlemen, are dead.

If you understand this, our body as a fact is an insult. It is an insult to eternity, it can therefore only be trampled upon. But the funny thing is that no matter how you react to the masses with torn intestines, joyfully or joylessly, the paradox of the movie is there. As a movie, it still doesn't add up. Although, stepping on the throat of its own song, one can't help but admit that just the “worldview”, corpse part offers something new and does it with style. Romero as if globalized the stiffs, spreading them all over the globe and leaving only rare oases for the living. But the whole globe is semi-darkness, even when it's light, and most of the time it's night and a dilapidated, littered urban jungle. Pure baroque from the time of the plague in Florence and Hieronymus Bosch. Details such as the chronic fireworks are very appropriate in it - the stiffs immediately rear their heads, get frozen, and you can run over to the next trench. Also, the plague world has begun to evolve. Just as the plague barracks, Auschwitz and Gulag had their own life - a man gets used to everything - the stiffs also begin to get used to it. First, they learn to communicate, at least in sign language, which was never there before. Secondly, which also did not happen, the munchkin “picked up a stick”, that is, a weapon, at least inadvertently. It's not enough to bite and tear human flesh - he has a cleaver, an automatic rifle, even a lighter, with which in the end he will guess to set fire to gasoline. And fireworks will eventually stop working on him.

Romero has found the zombie a place in the sun. The stiff is no longer pure anti-world, but quite equal to the world, and the half-decomposed negro with the machine gun is no longer an anti-hero, but a highly ambiguous figure. As is the final Cholo (John Leguizamo). You can even guess what the sequel will be about, if there is one. It's about love. Or rather, about sex of rotting mutilated bodies. Maybe even more stylish: S&M plus necrophilia against the backdrop of two collapsed World Trade Center towers. But that would be only if there was no such “world of the living” as Romero presented in “Land of the Dead”. Here, it's lights out. The story of a new conquistador (Simon Baker) with a friend (Robert Joy) and a hooker (Asia Argento), fighting on two fronts - against zombies and against an evil tyrant rich man (Dennis Hopper) - it's so cardboard that it's in spades with the whole corpse part. Nothing new or stylish. It's time to remember “The Three Fat Men” and “The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin.” Here, on the contrary, more kindergarten than in “Resident Evil”, “Dawn of the Dead” or “The Statistical Counselor”. An evil tyrant profits, people die. A rebellion is brewing, the leader of the rebels is thrown in jail. The common people are on the needle or on the pavement, the damned rich are getting high by the pool. If there is anything in the whole movie that makes you laugh, it is the villain's escape with suitcases of money and a lady's pistol. Pure Kerensky, except he forgot to disguise himself as a woman. Everything ends so boring it makes your teeth chatter.

The cardboard, nuanced world of the living tears the integrity of the corpse part, thus discrediting the “worldview”.

If in hundreds, thousands, millions of years the dead have discerned only a dumb scheme in the living, they themselves are dumb. They're worthless. Why bother? Why did you put up with it?

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Codec: HEVC / H.265 (85.0 Mb/s)
Resolution: Native 4K (2160p)
HDR: Dolby Vision, HDR10
Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
Original aspect ratio: 2.39:1

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#English: Dolby TrueHD with Dolby Atmos 7.1
#English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
#English: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0

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English SDH.