The Dead Don't Die: An all star cast, a great director/writer but it just doesn't hang together. Pacing is off, when police chief Cliff (Bill Murray) trips into a grave it should be funny but isn't. The film would have benefitted from a 15 minutes cut to the running time. Some sequences are unrelated to the rest of the movie, the large Juvenile Detention Centre is incongruous in a small town, I realise it's meant as social commentary but it doesn't work. Far more effective is Farmer Miller (Steve Buscemi) who wears a Keep America White Again cap and complains about coffee being too black. Tom Waits excels as Hermit Bob who notices that something strange is going on as animals hide. The Fourth Wall disappears early on as Officer Ronnie (Adam Driver) tells Cliff that the song The Dead Don't Die sounds familiar as it's the theme song. Iggy Pop is great as a zombie who attacks a diner, eating the owner, munching on intestines and drinking coffee. Tilda plays the enigmatic Scottish undertaker who is also a Ninja and nifty at beheading zombies with her Samurai sword. Oh, the whole thing is due to Polar Fracking, the Earth's wobble on it's Axis has been changed. Jarmusch has delivered better. 6/10.
