"Nice watch."Warm Bodies certainly lives up to the promise of its trailer, delivering an utterly charming and engaging viewing experience. Central to its success is Nicholas Hoult as R, the zombie with increasing heart and on-screen for virtually all of the running time, who delivers a compelling and touching performance throughout that drives the whole movie (although it is perhaps best not to question how a zombie can deliver such dynamic interior monologues but cannot remember his own name), and Teresa Palmer provides adequate love-interest in a disturbing Kristen Stewart impression. Metaphors are played deftly but simply - the gap between R's initial shuffling, monosyllabic, awkward-around-girls zombie and the average teenage boy is not a great leap, for example. Although the final act jarringly veers into action movie territory, for the most part Warm Bodies is an intimate, carefully-told story with a cool indie-styled soundtrack and some of the most fun and wittily-played dark comedy in the genre since Zombieland.
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