The Crazies aka (A Whole Lot of Awesomeness,or Way Better Than The Piece of Shit Original))

Now this is what you do when you have to do a remake.You take a film that was little known and or not the greatest to begin with,but had potential in it storyline,and you make a movie thats actually better,and in this case WAY better than the original. George " I'm Going To Keep Making These Goddamn Living Dead Films Because I'm A Senile Old Goat" Romero's original "The Crazies" was perfect to be remade.The idea of a small town in the middle of Iowa being contaminated by a governtment biological weapon via the towns water and causing everyone to slowly descend into murdering madness is one hell of an idea.But if you have seen the original,its simply not that good.It was done cheaply,the writing was poor and the acting and pacing was not very good either.Yet for some reason over time its been labeled a "classic" just because it was Romeros followup to his "Night of the Living Dead".In all actuality it was BALLS.

Like I said perfect material for a remake.And let me start off by saying that Mr Breck "I'm So Fuckin Sorry For That Stupid Ass Matthew McConauhey Flick Sahara"Eisner has done an awesome job with this film.This is one remake worth the money that was put into it.So Mr. Eisner I forgive you for making my retinas burn a few years back.

The basic story is exactly the same,a government plane carrying a top secret biological weapon crashes in a lake that is the water supply for Ogden Marsh Iowa. Of course this is unbeknownst to the locals,until it is too late,and everyone is going batshit crazy.

The cast handles this all very well, Timothy "Dude,Your SOOO IN My Wifes Top5...hell Probably Top 2"" Olyphant is excellent as is Rhadha "I've been In A Shit Load Of Movies,But People Get Me Mixed Up With Melissa George From the "Amityville Horror" remake All The Time Dammit!!" Mitchell as his wife. Olyphant and Mitchell are the towns sheriff and local doctor and of course are husband in wife,but this is all handled very well.

This movie doesnt take long to get going,and once it does,it is sooo frickin kick ass,it has one of the best "badass" moments I have seen in a long time,pulled off by Olyphant. The feel of the movie is at times tension wise similar to "28 Weeks Later" which is a good thing.It has some nice little moments that are in there to ease the tension that are done realistically.This is just one very damn good film.If you like horror films,I cannot recommend this one enough.Go see it.You will enjoy the shit out of it!!