On second thought, this is one of the greatest movies ever created.

Of course, the characters are unlikeable, there's enough plot holes to make you want to die, the dialogue sounds like it was written by a 13 year old liberal fail child who has never met an actual human, the action is unnecessarily over the top, and it's boring.

However, it is unintentionally the tale of American imperialism.

A group of working class people sign up to enter a warzone for money fully aware that in order to receive this money, they will have to kill and exploit an autonomous city filled with what they consider savages. But these "savages" clearly aren't so. Not to mention they are created by the us government.

They immediately betray one of their party because their only goal is money. This was the zombies biggest mistake, giving the imperialists safe passage. They did it because they are not inherently aggressive, even if they have every right to be. They should have killed the imperialists on sight.

Less than 10 minutes later, they start shooting up the residents of this city. In the chaos, the only one questioning the stand in for the imperialist state is intentionally killed by the one they are calling out. Because they began to suspect they were on a different mission other than the one stated.

And what are these "savages" doing? Literally sleeping. It was only after they were provoked by imperialists invading their home and murdering sleeping residents, did they fight back. And they were slaughtered for it. And the group is really enjoying themselves during the massacre.

Once they reach the casino, one of the characters rightly points out that they're caught in a time loop of killing and pillaging. "And once it ends, it all begins again." They kill and are killed to further the interests of the ruling class in a neverending loop.

Meanwhile Mr. Ruling Class Imperialist capture one of the leaders of this autonomous city and torture/cut her head off, ISIS style. All to make the ultimate WMD. Because I guess nukes aren't enough?

Continuing the torture, the rest of the group forces the zombies to walk across booby traps and shoot them if they don't comply. Sounds kind of familiar, bit on the nose really. But they aren't seen as people, they're seen as expendable, means to an end.

And what is the plan of the US government? Once they've extracted capital and materials from the residents of the city, they are literally going to nuke it. They are going to nuke a walled in, oppressed people because they have no more use for them. And they originally planned on doing it on July 4th. Nothing more patriotic/nationalist/fascist than doing a little genocide on a national holiday.

So the group moves out before the city gets nuked to shit, slaughtering innocent civilians who are defending themselves/avenging an assassination and exploitation of what's theirs. Outmatched in firepower, but picking off the imperialists out of sheer will. And the group is betrayed by the CIA imperialist guy along the way of course.

This is a top notch film really. Of course, not the intention of Snyder. If it was written a wee bit differently it would rival Starship Troopers and Avatar in terms of anti-imperialism. But, alas.

There's my analysis to keep sane during this shit show. Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.