Incredibly average. The same, "you stay here by yourself while I go explore the dark part of the building by myself," conventions. Little gore and a waste of an always reliable Timothy Olyphant. A good rental.

This was without question the absolute most predictable movie I have ever seen. And to top if off, the most cliched. Acting was pretty good. The overall concept of the story was superb, but poorly portrayed. Would I suggest seeing it? Yeah, maybe. Since there is just absolute garbage that is being released every week now. This may be one of your better choices. Would not buy it, only worth a single watch.… Expand

A brilliant horror film until the last 5 minutes where any plausibility goes out the window. But at leas the ride is worth it.

It is very intense. This is a frightful marriage between conspiracy theories and a vombiefest. decent effects and good, not great acting. Good retelling of a Romero classic.

In a film year of remakes such as The Karate Kid, highly awaited sequels such as Toy Story 3 and film adaptations of television shows such as M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender, Breck Eisner's remake of George Romero's classic, The Crazies stands out from the rest. The plot concerns a small Iowa town where the town sheriff (Timothy Olyphant) begins to notice some residents acting out violently. Soon the army arrives and seals off the town and Olyphant is cut away from his pregnant wife (Radha Mitchell) who is mistaken as an infected. After breaking into the town and rescuing his wife Olyphant, his wife, his deputy, and a nurse from his wife's office must escape the county before they are either killed by the infected or the army. While the plot may seem a bit standard to other horror films of the present day the plot does have enough suspense and terror to sustain it. The film's acting was very well done, while not excellent it was better than most horror remakes. In most horror remakes such as The Wolf Man (2010) the actors primarily walk through their roles with no true inspiration, but the cast led by Olyphant does their best and appears to actually care about the roles at hand. They all have their own personalities and conflicts which allows for them to work outside the broad stereotypes associated with the horror genre(examples-hero, victim, hot female lead). The military appears as cold in their plans and their look. They are dressed in black and green and always wear their gas masks giving them an unearthly look. Visually the film worked in its set-ups and locales. Their is a sense of isolation and tension in many of the shots within the town and of the weakness felt by the characters. For instance when the film begins we are treated to a shot of the town's center district in ruins and flames and then we seen a shot only a few days prior showing the unassuming town as it was. Gore-wise the film does not fail, the effects are well done in their execution each spilling a ton of blood of screen. Fans of other horror films such as the Nightmare series (1984-2010) and Friday the 13th series (1980-2009) will not luck out. Unlike other films like The Wolf Man the gore is not overused or out of place in most scenes. Despite the better aspects the film does contain its faults. The gore effects which are well done are rather graphic and some viewers may have problems watching it, but gore hounds will love it beyond a reasonable doubt. Overall for a remake, The Crazies works better than most and is one of the best movies so far this year.… Expand

Russell Clank(Joe Anderson), Ogden Marsh's deputy, comes to terms with his erratic behavior; he's paranoid and has a trigger-itch temper, which are symptomatic of the "crazies", so the infected lawman creates a diversion in order for the Duttons(Timothy Olyphant & Radha Mitchell) to escape the military soldiers' notice. Hands in the air, Russell approaches the barricade, then provokes the army to take the first shots when he waves his gun in the air. On the ground, wounded, Russell's last words are, "F*** you. For what you did," which pertains to the systematic destruction of this small Iowa town, but could have more far-reaching connotations, as Russell could be a stand-in for some universal citizen who withstood a bevy of American military campaigns, in which heavy casualties were involved. It's no accident that "The Crazies" is set in the midwest, a region of the country where people are less likely to be contemptuous toward the direction of our foreign policy. "The Crazies" is no "Blue Velvet", but the opening scene that highlights a farmer traversing the baseball field with a shotgun, almost serves the same function as the famous opening montage in the David Lynch film. Instead of carnivorous bugs buried in the grass, a carnivorous government is responsible for something buried in the swamp. Ogden Marsh is a town full of patriotic ideologues. At a funeral home, the mortician sews shut the eyes of his clients, the very same people who proudly display the American flag outside their homes. Here, the filmmaker shows how having blind faith in the integrity of our government's actions can sometimes get you killed. Nobody blinks an eye when innocent people die abroad. But when a plane carrying biological weapons crashes in the swamp, the ideologues experience what the other "crazies" in the Middle East experience. Most pointedly, the Duttons and their two fellow travellers watch as a mother and her son are shot in cold blood, even though they might not be "crazy". "The Crazies" might not be a political movie for some, and that's fine, because even if the moviegoer watches it like a zombie, it also works as a superior suspense/thriller.… Expand

I really liked this movie. The acting was very good, the plot was passable, and the special effects was amazing. My only problem was the women in this movie seemed oblivious for the most part. The leads wife really just keeps getting herself into trouble and needs to be saved. Other than that, the movie was great. I highly recommend seeing it.

The Crazies is better than the usual scary fare. Yes, it has some of the same absurdities and implausibilities as most of the others (WHY do people walk around aimlessly in the dark near places where the bad guys can jump out at you?), but the acting and writing is better than most. It held my attention throughout and I was entertained. There was a lot of violence, but I actually don';t think it's as gory as most in this genre.… Expand

I went into this with quite low expectations. I thought the trailer looked good but fully expected just another run of the mill horror. I was very pleasantly surprised to find this film has some smarts. Its played straight for one thing - I've never been a fan of comedy horror - and it has some genuinely disturbing moments which I won't spoil by revealing. If you're not sure, give it a go. It won't be a life changing experience but I think you'll enjoy it.… Expand

Nice job with good character development. You cared about the sheriff and his wife, and their team and hoped that they would survive. There were some real jolts and scares with a well paced story line.

I went into this movie with low expectations, but I actually loved this movie. Filled with good acting, good script, awesome gore, bloody action, and a really scary atmosphere, I highly recommend this.

George A. Romero is credited all over as the king and father of zombie films for years he has given moviegoers some of the most frightening and definitive zombie films ever made and it all began in 1968 with a little know black and white independent film called "Night of the living Dead"(1968). Which is cited as the films that jump started the zombie sub genre (and officially began the zombie craze that has lasted far longer than it should have). Then in 1973 Romero came out with his second zombie another little know for film for its time tentatively entitled, “The Crazies". George A. Romero's 1973 original did not garner much acclaim on its release it instead fell to the wayside and was just written off as another bad low class horror film I have seen the 1973 original and let me say this I was not impressed, it lacked soul and heart to its story and to its characters. The no name actors he hired were lagging and lacked any real talent for a film that is suppose to leave us petrified with fear(hmmmm.... Sounds like the horror films today no character, no story, just graphic sex and buckets of blood). That was almost a year ago I saw the original, it was strange that about the same time I saw it I also heard that Overture films had green lighted a remake of "The Craziesâ€� with Breck Eisner to direct with Timothy Olyphant and Radha Mitchell as the leads. Naturally, I was skeptical, how can you turn an already bad movie into a good one? That was the question I was asking myself, that is until I saw the remake and all my doubts and fears were quashed. "Breck Eisner’s “The Crazies"(2010) at first glance may seem like your standard ordered, cliché epidemic/zombie horror thriller when in fact this re-imagining is something far more complex this film is just as it sounds. Town’s water supply is infected with deadly virus that turns them into homicidal maniacs who go on a rampage and destroy everything and everyone they meet. “ The Crazies" is a dark, menacing, horror thriller that brings back fond memories of the good old days of horror when theses types of films were actually frightening and not comedy. What makes this film so effective is the care taken to the dialogue it flows so effortlessly it is as if the writers have done this a thousand times before, the dialogue is everything in this film it is what drives it. Now your probably thinking that is what drives most films when in fact most films are either driven by emotions(The Green Mile, A Walk in the Clouds and Titanic) or atmosphere( Sin City, BRICK, Blade Runner, Solaris).“ Its atmosphere drives the Craziesâ€� if that fails the movies fails, the other elements that hold this film above water is the sheer intensity of the film. They are all on high gear and pushing it to the limit with a simple premise to create a film that substantially surpasses the original. I ma not a huge fan of the zombie genre, I really do not admire the films that have come out about the living undead the infected none of it seems to interest me very much. That is until I saw this film, “The Crazies" changed my whole opinion on zombie movies. It moves so swiftly and carefully across the screen it succeeds to entertain and thrill despite the obvious design flaws. "The Crazies" will not appeal to every horror fan or every moviegoer as it is something they have seen before however, it does serve up some nicely shot scenes of madness and chaos in the upheaval of a pandemic. This film is not all the way original but compared to most horror thrillers and remakes that are released today it is a breath of fresh air and to that is something of a relief to see such a well made film put up on the screen. "The Crazies" may not have everything you could want but for what it is, it is spectacular and to me one of the finest examples of how a remake should be done.… Expand

You will have seen this movie many times before and there was no real reason for a remake (since they didn't bother with updating the subtext much), but if the dawn of the zombie apocalypse holds strange fascination for you, you will not mind seeing ih again Midwestern-style. Far from great, this was still more fun than the latest two Romero offerings.

An actual good zombie(ish) movie. This one is a little different then the rest, because the people maintain some personality, they simply wish to kill more. Kind of weird and creepy near the end, but overall pretty good.

The movie is good in places but so predictable and so cliche. The acting was mildly believeable which was a bonus. I loved the concept but the way it was directed led to a festival of stereotypical horror. This is definetley one for the popular horror market rather than the hardcore followers.

A pretty well-made film and it was done very well. I got the same feeling I got from 28 days later. There are a few scenes that terrified me, and there are a few scenes that pissed me off, but I would recommend this to anyone for a halloween-horror movie-extravaganza for those who still do them. All-in-all, good movie.

I actually think this a decent modern day horror/thriller movie. Men hold your woman close cause she may need to hold something. This simple zombie infested town actually had a good enough script to make it interesting, intriguing, and breathe taking.

"The Crazies" was crazy! (That wasn't cliché was it?) This 2010 movie is a remake of George Romero's 1973 film also called "The Crazies". Director Breck Eisner completely modernizes the original story, turning "The Crazies into more than just your average zombie film where everyone just runs around biting people. Also any movie that starts off playing John Cash has to be half way decent, right? Read full review at FlicksWorthWatching.com… Expand

A good movie from beginning to end, there are some moments where you'll shake your head in disbelief because of some bad acting or plot holes, but it's still enjoyable, and definitely a Romero classic.

Entertainment with style! For those who think zombie movies are just for fun, here is an example of the genre also includes aesthetic sophistication and can get rid of superficiality. I expected much less, I was pleasantly surprised by the embellishments added to the tension, horror, grief and a great script. Some parts are a bit predictable but it's still a really movie breathtaking. Recommended.

this movie was like one of those okay movies, but i do have to that jim carry was very good in this movie especially when he got licked by a dinosaur and puked out his large intestine out, and like said nothing great about it.

THE CRAZIES is a great remake, the film was filled with suspenseful scenes and cringe worthy moments (in a good way). The acting was also decent as well.