Warm Bodies

 Warm Bodies 2013

• Director: Jonathan Levine
• Based on the novel by Isaac Marion
• Cast: Nicholas Hoult, Teresa Palmer, John Malkovich, Lio Tipton, Rob Corddry, Dave Franco
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• Nicholas Hoult – X- Men Dark Phoenix etc, The Favourite, Mad Max Fury Road, Jack the Giant Slayer, Wah-Wah, About a Boy, Intimate Relations
• Teresa Palmer – I Am Number Four, December Boys
• John Malkovich – Burn After Reading, Colour Me Kubrick, The Libertine, Johnny English, Being John Malkovich, Mary Reilly, Of Mice and Men
• Lio Tipton – Lucy
• Why? Zombies are cool
• Seen: 5 September 2021.      

       R (Hoult) is dead but so is everyone around him. He doesn’t remember his name or how it all happened or how to feel or communicate or why they’re all in an airport. He doesn’t want to be this way. He’s lonely.

       He’s a zombie. They all are.

       Julie (Palmer) is one of the volunteers who venture out into the ruins from the besieged walled city where the only survivors of the plague reside.

       They meet in a battle in which R eats her boyfriend Perry’s (Franco) brain, getting his memories and feelings. R saves Julie from the other zombies to take her back to the airport with him.

       Love stories are not my favourite genre, but I must confess, this one is … different.

       Oh wow! Romeo and Juliet!

       Does that mean it’s going to end tragically?

       See the film. 

4 * of 5