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Starring: Dave Bautista, Ella Purnell, Ana de la Reguera, Theo Rossi, Tig Notaro, Huma Qureshi, Garret Dillahunt, Raúl Castillo, Omari Hardwick,  Hiroyuki Sanada, Matthias Schweighöfer

OUR RATING: ★★★☆☆

Story:

Netflix’s horror zombie heist directed and co-written by Zack Snyder. After a zombie outbreak in Las Vegas, Army of the Dead  (2021) follows a group of mercenaries who take the ultimate gamble by venturing into the quarantine zone to pull off  heist.

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Our Favorite Quote:

'It is by going down into the abyss where we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.' - Vanderohe (Army of the Dead) Click To Tweet

 

Best Quotes


 

Bly Tanaka: It’s not every man who saves the secretary of defense from a horde of flesh-eating monsters, earns the Medal of Freedom, only to end up…
Scott Ward: Working at a burger joint. Mr. Tanaka, I am well aware of my situation.


 

Bly Tanaka: There’s two hundred million in the basement vault beneath the Strip. Two hundred million the insurance company already reimbursed me for, untaxable, untraceable.
Scott Ward: Unspendable.
Bly Tanaka: That’s where you come in.


 

Bly Tanaka: [to Ward] I want you to put together a team and get it out. In exchange, fifty million is yours to divvy up amongst whomever you take in with you. Intrigued? Don’t give me an answer. Think on it for the night.


 

Scott Ward: Mr. Tanaka, I’m in a tough spot. I don’t like you very much. So I hate giving you the satisfaction of taking the job, but…
Bly Tanaka: You’d best to gather your team. You’ll need a helicopter pilot and a safecracker.


 

Scott Ward: So you think it’s a bad idea?
Maria Cruz: Come on, Scotty. It’s not a matter of “think”. It’s a matter of “is”, and it is a bad goddamn idea.


 

Scott Ward: You’re out?
Maria Cruz: I didn’t say that.
Scott Ward: You’re in?
Maria Cruz: I didn’t say that either.
Scott Ward: But you’re intrigued.
Maria Cruz: That much I’m guessing your a** knew before you even walked in.


 

Scott Ward: I mean, think about it. Everything we did, all those people we saved, look what it got us. But what if, just once, we did something just for us?
Maria Cruz: We could die.
Scott Ward: Yeah, we’ll probably die. Some of us at least.


 

Scott Ward: So where’s your head at?
Vanderohe: You know, when we were in it, like when we were really in it, I never thought about the faces of all the countless monsters, but now just realized, you know, were people. But now their faces, that’s all I see. I don’t know if being back in would be better or worse. God, I can’t figure that out, but I guess there is a chance that it could be cathartic.
Scott Ward: There it is.


 

Marianne Peters: Hundred percent. I’m in. Yeah.
Maria Cruz: You don’t want to know the risks, or…
Marianne Peters: Why would I want to know the risks? Two million dollars? That’s a lot of cash. Listen, I hate my life so deeply, if I had two million dollars, my life would change drastically.


 

Scott Ward: What would you say about making five hundred grand?
Mikey Guzman: I’d say, “Who the hell do I got to kill?”


 

Dieter: [referring to the safe] Can I crack it? This is like showing me a picture of Botticelli’s Madonna of the Magnificat, and asking me if I want to f*** her.


 

Dieter: Can it be opened, and by me? I don’t know. I honestly don’t.
Scott Ward: Okay.
Dieter: Watch your fingers, Mr. Big Hand. But of the world’s living locksmiths, do I represent your greatest chance of opening it? I can, with humility, say yes.
Maria Cruz: You’re in?
Dieter: It’s a doorway to another realm, my friends, and providence has brought you to me. We go through it together.


 

Vanderohe: Scott, you want to tell me what’s up with the kid, man? I mean, look at him. No offense, but he doesn’t exactly look like zombie killer material, does he?
Dieter: Hi, my name is Dieter, and I’m going to open what cannot be opened.
Vanderohe: [laughs] Are you kidding me?
Scott Ward: No, we need the kid to open the safe. We lose him, we got nothing.


 

Bly Tanaka: If you coordinate, and communicate, this should be a simple in-and-out.


 

Bly Tanaka: You will enter the city with a thirty-two hour window. Whatever zombies are still walking should be no problem for a gang of tough hombres such as yourselves.


 

Scott Ward: Well, we all know the basics. Zombies, shamblers, the undead, whatever you want to call them, when it comes to killing them, it’s all about the brain. One comes at you, shoot it in the brain. It’s that simple. Any questions?
Dieter: Yes. What if I took a big rock and smashed it into the head? Would that work?
Scott Ward: Yeah. Yeah, that also would still be targeting the brain, so that would work.


 

Bly Tanaka: Back at the main door, our safecracker gets to work. Like a surgeon, or a painter, his masterpiece rendered in barely audible clicks. Finally, she succumbs to the sheer dominance of his gentle touch. Then, all you have to do is load the money on the helicopter and fly off into the sunset.


 

Bly Tanaka: All this, a full day before the nuke ever leaves the launchpad. Easy peasy Japanesey.
Dieter: Sorry, sir. We’re not allowed to say that anymore. It’s “lemon squeezy” now.
Bly Tanaka: Yeah, but I’m…
Marianne Peters: I think it’s fine if he’s Japanesey.
Bly Tanaka: As you wish. Easy peasy lemon squeezy.


 

Bly Tanaka: How’re you feeling?
Scott Ward: You’re insane. You know that, right? But if it’s a choice between dying on the Strip, and spending another day flipping patties at the Lucky Boy, I’ll gamble on a few million.


 

Scott Ward: I know this is not going to make up for what I did, or what type of father I was.
Kate Ward: Yeah.
Scott Ward: With fifteen million, you can help these people. You can go back to school, do whatever you want. Whatever you do with this money, I know will be the right thing.
Kate Ward: What one thing?


 

Maria Cruz: I swear to God, if this whole mission is some insane way for you to reconnect with your daughter…
Scott Ward: It’s not, alright? Trust me. She’s a volunteer at the camp. She’s got connections. She’s just giving us a ride into the quarantine zone. You really think I’d take her inside the city?


 

Martin: Hey, how you doing? I don’t think we’ve officially met. My name’s Martin.
Chambers: Don’t talk to me. I don’t trust these people, but especially you.


 

Kate Ward: [to Ward] Try not to get nuked, or murdered by the undead.


 

Dieter: [referring to the knife] You don’t think I need something bigger?
Vanderohe: If I give you something bigger than that, Dieter, you’re already dead.
Dieter: Dead?
Vanderohe: Auf Wiedersehen, dead.


 

Scott Ward: Listen to me. As someone who’s seen what this looks like, this is not a path you want to go down. And I’m not going to let you try. So you’re going to stay put. We’ll look for your friend. And I’ll see you when we get out. Okay?
Kate Ward: No. No, not okay. You listen. I’m going in either way. I can either go in with you, and you can keep me safe. Or I’ll just sneak in after you, and I’ll probably die. The choice is yours. What’s it going to be, dad?


 

Kate Ward: I don’t f***ing get it. Why the f*** would she bring him?
Scott Ward: Honey, easy with the f-bombs, okay?
Kate Ward: Are you kidding? We’re about to march into a sea of dead people and commit grand larceny. But excuse me for swearing.


 

Dieter: [referring to zombies] What happened to them exactly?
Lilly: What’s it look like? Weren’t smart enough to get out of the sun. You should see what happens when it rains. For a few hours, they all come back to life.
Dieter: Oh, Scheisse.


 

Kate Ward: What happened here?
Lilly: Where the police and military finally fell. Vegas’s last stand.


 

Martin: It’s a goddamn zombie tiger. That’s crossing the line.

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Lilly: We’re not talking about shamblers here. You’re right. They don’t think. They just move and eat. But we’re talking about the other ones.
Vanderohe: The alphas.
Lilly: Yes. They’re smarter. They’re faster. They’re organized. Straight out of your f***ing nightmares.


 

Lilly: You all keep talking about the city like it’s their prison. It’s not. It’s their kingdom. They won’t mind us poking around the outside so long as we play by their rules. We’re moving into the heart of it now.


 

Lilly: My theory, this started with one of them, an original. So, whoever that is, I think it if he bites you…
Vanderohe: Then you become an alpha.
Lilly: Exactly.


 

Marianne Peters: I don’t trust that guy. You know why he was hired? He was hired to keep tabs on us, for when we open the safe, that we didn’t take the money and run. We should be incentivized. I’m not trying to be the bad guy, but we should be incentivized to let him die.
Martin: [as everyone looks at him] What? What’s everybody looking at me for?
Maria Cruz: It’s a free country. People can look at whoever they want.
Martin: Actually, it’s not a free country. We’re not in America anymore. Haven’t you heard?
Scott Ward: Which technically makes it an even freer country, right?
Martin: Whatever.


 

Kate Ward: So that’s a pretty common theme for you? Leaving people behind.
Lilly: Do you think I enjoy having to leave people? I’m doing what I can to make things right.


 

Martin: I really hate that tiger. It’s perverse.


 

Martin: What was it? Guilt finally get the better of you? One too many out there to die?
Lilly: Matter of fact, yes, it has.


 

Lilly: I’ve never left anyone I didn’t have to, or who didn’t deserve it. You have no idea
what I’ve seen in those camps. What those people have to do to survive. At least within these walls, the rules are clear. You don’t see them f***ing each other over.


 

Lilly: If you screw me, two between the eyes.
Martin: Two? Why two?
Lilly: The second one’s just for fun.


 

Scott Ward: [to Kate, referring to killing her mother] You know, all those things they were saying, about me after. I want to make sure you know I loved her. We loved each other. If I ever made it seem like that wasn’t the case, I’m sorry.


 

Kate Ward: What you did, and what happened to her, I never blamed you for that, ever.
Scott Ward: Well, I don’t get it. If it wasn’t what happened, what the hell was it?
Kate Ward: It’s not the fact that you killed my mother. It’s that you never showed up after, okay? You weren’t there, Scott. You didn’t call. You didn’t visit. You didn’t talk about it. You didn’t comfort me.
Scott Ward: Yeah, you’re right. It’s because every time I looked at you, I just saw her. And it hurt like hell. Hurt like hell. And then when I tried to come back around, you just, you seemed like you didn’t want me there, so I assumed I should stay gone.


 

Kate Ward: I’ve spent so long hating you that I can’t just turn that off. I’m sorry. I’m sorry. That came out meaner than I meant it to.
Scott Ward: No, it’s alright. No, I understand.


 

Dieter: I got the bride. I got the bride. I shot her three times.
Vanderohe: Actually, it was four.
Dieter: Four. Woo-hoo! Not zombie-killing material, my a**, Mr. Vanderohe.


 

Vanderohe: I mean, look at them. It’s us. It could be us in another timeline, and we’re caught in some infinite loop of fighting and dying, fighting and dying, fighting and dying. And Tanaka, the puppet master. Devil. God. And we, you, me, Guz, and the rest of the team, simply pawns in some perverse play, where we’re destined to repeat our failures. And finally, in some mind-bending, ironic reveal, it all begins again.


 

Martin: You know how much the whole head of one of these things is worth to my boss, to the government? In the right hands, this is the power to make more of them. The power to control your own zombie army. That’s the ultimate WMD.


 

Dieter: If I can open it, it will be either destruction, or renewal. Death, or rebirth.
Vanderohe: That’s heavy, brother. But I dig it.


 

Scott Ward: We got a problem. They moved the bomb up.
Marianne Peters: Oh, nice. I’m glad they decided to move the nuclear bomb up. I was getting kind of antsy.
Scott Ward: We’ve got about ninety minutes before this place is dust.


 

Scott Ward: How’s it going up there?
Marianne Peters: Good. I actually found a pool. Been working on my tan. Got to even this s**t out. You know what I’m talking about?


 

Dieter: [to Ward] You, Mr. Sausagefinger, you just made me mess up, and now we’re back to ground zero. If you mess it up again, it locks forever! You understand? Forever.


 

Scott Ward: Tofu. My next food truck. I was thinking, can make anything out of tofu. Tofu burgers, tofu fries, tofu milkshake, tofu cheesecake. I don’t know what that is. Tofu cheesecake. I don’t know. I thought maybe, since everyone’s going vegan now, you know. Humans are figuring out they’re not at the top of the food chain. What do you think?
Kate Ward: Yeah, it’s okay. Keep thinking.


 

Scott Ward: [to Maria] Just like old times, right? Well, not just like old times, but just as crazy.


 

Maria Cruz: I didn’t come here for the money, dumb s**t. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I’ll take the millions. But I came here for you. I thought we could have had something, but then you just went away. It’s just that seeing you again is just bringing it all back. And it’s not that I’ve been waiting. You know, I haven’t. I’m happy. Well, I’m fine. I just thought that maybe…
Scott Ward: I thought I’d f***ed that up forever.
Maria Cruz: Forever is a long time.
Scott Ward: I’m realizing that I’ve been wrong about everything. About you and me, me and Kate.


 

Maria Cruz: [as Ward is going after Kate] I’m not going to let you go out there alone.
Scott Ward: Thank you.
[the elevator door open, a zombie twists Maria’s kneck around, killing her]


 

Lilly: [referring to the head of Zeus’s qeen] That’s right, m*therf***er. One more step, and I’ll blow her head off. Well, more off.


 

Marianne Peters: Scott, was that a zombie in a goddamn cape?


 

Marianne Peters: Where’s the money?
Scott Ward: There is no money.


 

Marianne Peters: [to Ward] I know, I know. Somewhere between leaving your a** and saving my own, I developed a conscience. It’s exhausting.


 

Scott Ward: [after Ward’s been bitten by Zeus] I’ve been thinking. I’ve been thinking a lot, Kate. It’s got to be lobster rolls. You know, the food truck. Scott’s lobster rolls. Because everybody loves a goddamn lobster roll, right?
Kate Ward: Yeah. Everyone loves a goddamn lobster roll.


 

Scott Ward: I’m so goddamn proud of you. I love you, Kate. I’m sorry I ran. I’m such a coward.
Kate Ward: You’re not a coward. You’re not a coward. You’re the bravest man I know. I love you so much. I’m so sorry.


 

Scott Ward: Let me just look at you.
Kate Ward: [Ward starts turning into a zombie] Dad. Dad. I’m so sorry.
[she shoots him in the head]


 

Vanderohe: [after taking the remaining money and hiring a private plane] To quote the great Joseph Campbell, he said, “It is by going down into the abyss where we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.” To the ironic twist of the unknown. Bottoms up.


 

Pilot: [over intercom] Thanks for flying with us.
Vanderohe: [sees the bite mark on his arm] F***.

 


 

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