By Following the accidental deployment of an experimental weapon results in scores of dead Australian citizens, chaos follows in the new drama “We Bury the Dead”.
Daisy Ridley stars as Ava; a woman desperate for closure with her missing husband who was in the area when the accident happened.
Ava joins a clean up crew who go house to house to locate and remove victims for burial. Occasionally they encounter a survivor who are in a trance like state. The authorities insist they are cognitively gone and require crews to fire flares so they can “switch them off”.
Ava begins to suspect there is far more going on than they have been told and breaks containment with her co-worker Clay (Brenton Thwaites) as the rush to a restricted area where Ava’s husband was last seen.
Danger and mystery abound as Ava and Clay realize that things are not fully as they have been told and the truth is far more complicated than they knew.
The movie takes a slow-build approach and largely avoids the gore-laden approach of other genre films.
While there were similarities to aspects of “28 Days Later”, the movie tells a tale that avoids many of the usual clichés to give a character-driven story with a surreal setting.
3 stars out of 5
