I think the most telling thing is that when the ending credits roll, Jonathan Levine’s name doesn’t show up anywhere on it; probably because he doesn’t want anyone to realize that he was responsible for such a lame movie, as the director and screenplay writer.
So yeah, Warm Bodies was a pretty crappy movie, in a nutshell. It was slow paced, predictable, mostly anti-climactic, and often times just plain boring. Not even Rob Corddry could rescue it, and John Malkovich wasn’t in it nearly enough to bring it back to some degree of watchability.
There honestly aren’t a ton of things I could say to justify the already mentioned claims because the movie really did lack substance. Writing zombie characters is incredibly challenging, given the general rules of zombies in literary fiction, and it’s always only a matter of time before the discrepancies and cracks begin to snowball into what essentially becomes a mute or stammering, but otherwise functional humanoid character.
The most disturbing thing about the whole movie though, was the fact that the two protagonists of the film were basically second-rate clones of Edward and Bella from Twilight. Seriously, scraggly-emoband-frontman looking male lead, albeit a zombie, and a blond Kristen Stewart. I honestly believe the casting call was “seeking blond Kristen Stewart, including perpetual horse-mouth/snarl and sleep-deprived eyes.”
I know the “still a better love story than Twilight” meme is really popular right now, but honestly I couldn’t even say that, even ironically, Warm Bodies could get that distinction. At least Edward wasn’t (entirely) shackled by all the rules of having to play a dead thing, and could actually speak, even if his lines were as horrible as the Holocaust.
