It's another day in zombieland, which is now more familiar to us than any country with the possible exception of our own. A second generation of infected children who have normal human intelligence is being reared at an army base in the wake of the collapse of civilisation, and when the base falls it's one of them that holds the hope for a possible cure to the plague. What then follows is the attempt by her teacher, a scientist and a bunch of soldiers to take her across the country to shelter, dodging the screeching undead all the way.
It's impossible to have anything truly new in the genre any more, so we have to feed on what scraps we can. In those terms, a big-name cast of Glenn Close, Paddy Considine and, er, Gemma Arterton offer dependable support and the tension is well maintained. But ultimately, it's the stunning vision of a ruined London with its gutted high-street shops that is the real star.
5/10
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