Another clunker of French cinema. Last night it was They Came Back (Les Revenants), a pensive zombie movie with no radioactivity or brain munching. The dead simply wandered back into town wearing pastel sportswear. (There was no explanation of how or why they got out of their graves and into Sear's.) They were in perfect health and they strolled around town all day and convened at night to chant directions ("left three blocks, next to the laundromat..."). Then they started planting car bombs for no apparent reason, so the living gassed them with a neurotoxin and they vanished like vapor. Great premise! Great emotional nuance. But car bombs? Lame ploy to move the plot and get rid of the zombies. I give it one meh.
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