Army of Darkness | Full Movie | Movies Anywhere

Here's the problem: Bruce Campbell's character is a complete stiff, and so is everyone else he meets who isn't a special effect. The result is that we couldn't care less who wins any battle in the movie no matter how inventively photographed.

Benefiting enormously from Raimi's brisk, no-nonsense direction, it shows again that he can fill a broader canvas with complicated effects, masking the fact that there's nothing terribly original on screen.

Army of Darkness is quite simply the best Bob Hope comedy Bob Hope never made.

There isn't a dead spot in Army of Darkness, which runs a brief 77 minutes, and suitably so: This is, in many ways, a live-action cartoon. It's overdone, yes, but also irresistible.

With virtually no narrative to connect its wall-to-wall mindless action sequences, Army of Darkness is either a botched attempt at some kind of elaborate allegory or a botched attempt to bring comic-strip panels to life.