John Cusack and Samuel L Jackson are phoning it in as survivors of a crisis that turns mobile users into mindless gruntsAnyone who’s seen a city pavement crammed with people stumbling along staring at their phones might possess noticed a new opportunity for zombie satire. But this doesn’t fairly nick it. It is an adaptation of a Stephen King novel from 2006 all about a sudden “pulse” that zaps into people’s brains through their mobile phones while they’re talking,turning them into zombies. John Cusack plays one of the survivors whose phone battery ran out just before the terrible moment, and Samuel L Jackson is someone in the same boat. (The novel was written before smartphones were commonplace – at least chatting on the phone involves non-zomboid human interaction.) Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com