Genuinely painful to watch. The aesthetic is so gritty and industrial that it's an eyesore. The characters are all stock military types, except with really stupid accents. Oh and there's a bizarrely mad scientist. The "intelligent" zombie has more expression than any of the humans. It's just a piece of crap, really.
Lacking the adventure of Dawn and the claustrophobia of Night, but still quite decent. Once again the world is populated by bad actors who spout questionable dialogue at wildly varying tenors. While that was endearing at times in earlier Romero, it starts to grate in this relatively safe and static situation. Once Bub is introduced things become more interesting. I'm unsure of the future ramifications of Bub's talents, but they save this movie from being rather pointless and dull.
this one's mostly for the gorehounds... even the "good" characters are assholes, and the evil ones are one-dimensional and grating. the main draw is Tom Savini's makeup effects, which are impressive as always and very frequently utilized (especially considering how little actual action there is in this film). Everything that's not someone being ripped apart and eaten is pretty dull. I'd say stick with Romero's earlier work unless you really love guts.
Has a smattering of great effects (even by today's standards) but by far the worst of the original trilogy. A good half of the film is spent setting up the concept of smart zombies via Bub, who as you can tell from the other reviews is regarded as a Romero institution but I thought was lame.
Basic story is alright, memorable performances by Frankenstein, Bub, Flyboy, the drunkie, and maybe Steel. But the hamfisted dialogue writing and acting makes the frequent talking scenes cringeworthy, disrupting the flow of the story (and yes, we get it: a zombie apocalypse can be a real strain on a guy's composure and man is his own worst enemy.) The music mostly sucked and the gratuitous dismemberment/flesh eating scenes add exactly ZERO to the movie in terms of character motivation or mood.
It's not groundbreaking like Night Of The Living Dead, or culturally astute like Dawn Of The Dead, but it's still a solid horror movie even though it plays strictly by genre guidelines.
I think it's the over-the-top acting of the human characters (the Captain and "Frankenstein", in particular), along with the social commentary, that saves this zombie flick from being completely mindless and dull. I also liked Bub.