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Romero's vision is Spielberg's turned inside out. The 65-year old B-movie maestro's first zombie picture since 1985's Day of the Dead is set in a post-apocalyptic landscape that's essentially a bloody, depopulated, allegorical version of today's urban America. Tower-dwelling rich folks and hardscrabble working poor live in a fortified coastal city ringed by zombie ghettos. The privileged, represented by Dennis Hopper's gangster-mogul Kaufman, have preserved the status quo in microcosm. The city's productive mortals (represented by commandos-for-hire Simon Baker, Robert Joy and John Leguizamo, and Asia Argento's hooker-turned-insurgent) serve Kaufman directly, by going into zombie country to retrieve nonperishable goods, and indirectly, by indulging in vices controlled by Kaufman. At first they resist fighting Kaufman, figuring an inequitable society is better than none. But in time they'll realize the zombies' bald-faced hunger is preferable to their capitalist dictator's covert bloodsucking. In the meantime, a zombie known as Big Daddy (Eugene Clark) grows outraged by mortal soldiers' massacres of the undead and leads a shambling invasion of the central city, hoping to invade the tower, kill Kaufman and avenge the destruction of his comrades.
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