The Crazies is a lot like 28 Days Later in that some contaminated drinking water turns a whole town into violent psychopaths. The Sheriff, played by Timothy Olyphant, is just trying to get his wife and get out of town as the military barges in and starts killing everyone indiscriminately as part of a containment effort. Caught between the two groups and with a deputy getting angrier by the minute, the Sheriff has a rough road ahead of him if he wants to escape this set up.
This was a perfectly serviceable horror movie with the thin premise leading from set piece to set piece. Olyphant brings his laconic cool to the role from the very first scene where a little league game is interrupted by the town drunk carrying a gun onto the field. Breck Eisner doesn't bring any real flair to the proceedings but the editing and music create the tension in these sorts of movies anyway. I do remember it has a pretty extreme ending, taking a recent movie cliche to its furthest point of absurdity.
Not a bad flick, not great. You could do worse for an afternoon of horror.
NOTE: I've never seen Romero's original so I can't compare the two, sorry.
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