Movie: They Came Back

I bought this movie because it was billed as a "thinking person's zombie movie." That should have been my first clue. Also, it's French, and with very few excpetions, I am not a fan of French movies (and no, it has nothing to do with them being French, it has everything to do with them being about a) sex, b) cheating on a significant other, or typically c) both.) But I picked it up anyway - the premise sounded great. Thousands of people who died within the last ten years have come back to life, and the loved ones they left behind are trying to grapple with having these people back in their lives. They aren't the flesh-rot maggotty zombies, these are (as the original French title suggests - apparently too cerebral for us dumb Americans) Revenants. Revenants are more like ghosts, and have a purpose when they come back. So too do these undeads, but that purpose is never really very clear.

I felt the movie lacked any kind of payoff. They spent almost an hour and twenty minutes building tension to a near-breaking-point, and simply dumped a pile of poop in my lap that really smelled bad.

I wouldn't recommend this movie to anyone. Although, in its defense, the directing and acting was top-notch - there were a good deal of very long shots where the actors did a lot of complicated stuff, and you don't often see that in movies these days. So credit where credit is due and all that.