Army of the Dead is a strange combination of Mars Attacks and Indiana Jones. Is it a horror is it a sci-fi - it is hard to tell as there is nothing adventurous or frightening about it and it is as scary as a child in a skeleton costume on Halloween. If you are hoping with an 18 rating this movie will be scary, exciting and frightful, you would be wrong.

The CGI of the skeletons looks as though they would be more fitting in a computer game rather than on film. The skeletons stabbing the people look ridiculous; there is something not quite right on screen. When a skeleton stabs a couple and a girl is dragged into the cupboard, there is a distortion within the screen that knocks all hopes of anything working well together.

In much the same way the characters within the scenes do not fit together, the music accompanying the battle scenes as the hour mark approaches is out of sync with the movie; it is pointless, adds nothing to the story and actually distracts from the plot as the dialogue is overlapped with the music. This style would likely suit a war movie, some "march to the battle" style flick. At some points where the movie may actually startle with the sudden appearance of skeletons, the music drowns it out.

You will have certainly have seen much better movies involving skeletons over the last few years. Since this movie neither fits with a genre of sci-fi, horror or supernatural aspects, it is actually hard to enjoy, as there are far more down points as there are enjoyable ones.