Don't be fooled. "Warm Bodies" is not some syrupy teen romance brimming with tears, angst and regret. This film is artfully done, brilliantly acted and directed, and really, really good. It is by turns exciting, funny, thrilling, and touching. It is literally a modern remix of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet," told from the perspective of "R," a young man recently killed and zombified, but who still retains a glimmer of human consciousness. He cannot remember his name, only his first initial, "R." During a hunting raid in the city as a part of a zombie pack, R kills and eats the brains of a young hunk, and gains his victim's memories. While envisioning these memories, he realizes the young hunk had a hot girlfriend named...Julie. R (the word "Romeo" is never uttered in the film) starts to feel strange feelings he thought were impossible. Instead of killing and eating Julie, R is overwhelmed with a sudden surge of protectiveness, and rescues her from the zombie horde. His sudden alliance with a living human sets in motion a chain reaction of events that just might change a world decimated by plague. I'm only scratching the surface. You owe it to yourself to see this film, which I believe was Nicholas Hoult's first.
Review of Warm Bodies
