At some point this must have seemed like a fresh idea, an army of C.G.I. skeletons defending a treasure. Unfortunately the skeletons, who do not speak, are more interesting, and have far better acting skills than anyone else in this movie. With stupid unnecessary female conflicts, ridiculous dialog "What the hell is that,blood?" "Yea this is not good", and "Indiana Jones" nonsense, "Army of the Dead" is a wannabe spectacle of awful proportions. What starts out as a dune buggy adventure, winds up with a possessed professor and illegal treasure plundering. BAD, and not good bad . "Sharks in Venice" is a masterpiece, because it's so bad it's good. This is just BAD. - MERK

This review should only be one line long. Unfortunately, the minimum length is ten. I'm pretty much wasting space here until I get to the actual review, which will pretty much describe everything that this movie is about in a single sentence. If you find this idea to be extremely hilarious and awesome, I highly recommend this movie. The cover art serves as a similar litmus test. There's a conquistador skeleton wielding a shotgun. The skeleton army has quite the array of weapons. Swords, halberds, shields, heavy artillery, shotguns... you name it, they've got it. Furthermore, they have ingenious tactics involving flaming arrows. Whereas conventional wisdom dictates that you light ONLY the tip of the arrow on fire (so as to avoid burning yourself, the fletching, the bowstring, etc.) the skeletons have a superior strategy. They light every part of the arrow on fire, except for the very tip. As such the fire is incapable of coming in contact with the intended target, and it is thoroughly impossible to fire. Brilliant. Well, that should cover my 10 lines, so here we go. I confess I will ruin the end of the movie, but you will see it coming for about 30 minutes. VASCO DE GAMA'S UNDEAD SKELETON ARMY WILL BE ELECTROCUTED BY AN IMPROVISED Mexican TESLA-COIL. If you are giddy with excitement, rent this movie.

On the face of it this sounds like a semi-decent idea for a film. Then a quick look at the cast gives you a very bad feeling. I already predict lots of the cast are going to die as their all total unknowns.Unfortunately I can't report on if that's the case or not. The film had bored me before it was 10 minutes long. It wasn't going anywhere quickly (always a bad idea in a horror film, 1st law is cut to the chase!)I gave up on it and this is much as I can say. If you watch more than 10 minutes you've got more patience for the movie than I did.It had a decent enough start with the Spanish soldiers fighting the skeletons but then too much dialogue and story set-up getting to no action. There may have been action later, I was too bored to stick with it.Not for those with low boredom thresholds.

Okey... I've seen bad movies, this is beyond bad. Don't know if this count as a spoiler exactly, but marking it as one just to be sure. Apparently, skeletons don't die of shotgun blasts, or any shooting weapon for that matter, what kills are fire. Now, thats just the most stupid thing i've seen. Skeletons die after a few seconds of fire? LOL! Skeleton being pumped with led : Lives Skeleton on fire : Dies (well again) Oh and electricity kills them too, and swords... but not bullets.Oh seriously, the blood in this movie was by the far worst i have ever seen, that goes for all effects too. The lightning... well, the carton made lightnings in He-Man looked more realistic.Save your time, i don't think this is good even if your stoned beyond recognition.TOTAL CRAP!