Even Romero's staunchest fans might conclude their hero is going through the motions here. Yes, almost like a zombie. full review

What we've got here is a just a B-movie western with buckets of gore, which might be fine coming from a Romero wannabe but not from the genuine article. full review

George A. Romero's entertaining new zombie feature shows that you can't keep a good man down.

Steeped in fan-pleasing gore but woefully thin on ideas, originality (beyond new zombie-offing methods) or directorial flair. full review

Survival of the Dead almost never snaps into focus. Even its oxymoronic title doesn't work. It feels marginal, like an extended footnote. full review

Placidly photographed and lacking in urgency, Survival shows us the living flailing at fate and the dead just flailing. full review

It has been six days since the dead began to walk, and a powerful emotion is gripping the land. Boredom. full review

I suppose it's nice that Romero has a hobby, but he couldn't be more of a bore if he were showing off his pine cone collection. full review

For the first time, a Romero zombie movie feels as if it was rushed out. full review

Romero is using better actors than in the past, which helps. But they are hobbled by a sometimes nonsensical script with logical lapses even genre fans will find hard to swallow. full review

Shuffle, shuffle, limp, limp. That's not the shambling gait of the zombie hordes in George Romero's Survival of the Dead, but the draggy pace of the movie itself. full review

Like the literary monster mash-ups that have invaded the best-seller lists, Survival of the Dead mixes genres and milieus with absurdist glee. full review

Romero's Hatfields-and-McCoys setup feels more random than creative, and the idea that they're all Irish -- or cowboys! -- is more desultory still. full review

After you've seen, oh, I dunno, 20 or 30 zombie movies, you sort of stop caring very much, unless something new is going on, as in Zombieland. full review

At best, Survival's ending, with a riff on "beating a dead horse," may be taken for evidence of self-awareness. full review

There are some memorable images, including the sight of a beautiful, horse-riding ''dead head.'' But for much of the movie, Van Sprang's zombie fatigue seems to be an echo of Romero's own. full review

The hurtful truth is that others -- many others -- have co-opted Romero's whole living dead thing and have been doing it with more style than the Pittsburgh zombie auteur is capable of these days. full review

There's little here that's new or interesting; the movie is for hard-core Romero devotees only, and even they should approach this picture with expectations kept in check. full review

At long last, the Dead series may be ready for that final bullet between the eyes. full review