Army of Darkness

An hour and a half of unbridled fun. The film pretends to be horror, but there is nothing to be afraid of, it’s just fun and marveling at what Raimi has come up with again. There are countless gags and when you add Bruce Campbell, my personal cult actor with charisma to spare, the fun is guaranteed. Clearly the best film of the Evil Dead trilogy! (01/09/2002)

Raimi continues beyond the surreal Evil Dead 2 carnival into the realm of infantile pleasure and unfettered phantasmagoria. Campbell is the greatest hero to have ever worn household goods, and of the whole trilogy, I enjoyed this film the most. Probably even from the whole of Raimi's filmography. A festival of jokes and knee-deep fiction, in which the technical imperfection seems to me to be an integral part of the game. The much more perfect (and built on the same plot), whilst paradoxically less playful and imaginative, Oz: The Great and Powerful, is evidence of this. (03/04/2013)

Rather than a horror film, this turned out to be a fantasy comedy full of wisecracks. And that's good. Campbell brings Ash's character to perfection. Raimi must have read Conan stories as a kid, and Army Of Darkness is part tribute and part parody of his adventures. I'm kind of curious if they're going to eventually make a fourth installment, and if they do, you can bet I'm going to go see it. (27/08/2008)

A feature-length reinforcement of the cult named Bruce Campbell. The story is non-existent, the atmosphere too and the other actors aren’t even worth a mention. But Bruce and his charisma make all of these negatives seem so petty. The end of the trilogy where Sam Raimi and his ingenious and inventive directing or any kind of a story is important anymore. It’s all about Bruce here, Bruce and... did I say that Bruce plays in this? (24/07/2007)

A bombastic array of excellent "fights" with the dead, a huge number of great original ideas, a wonderful sense of perspective, and the divine Campbell. Overall, I really like the way Raimi conceived the whole trilogy – he started with a pretty serious horror film, then defined a new genre in which he mixed horror elements with comedy elements, and then conceived the final part as pure comedy. Even though I was laughing a lot of times ;))), this instalment is still the weakest of the whole series for me. (07/03/2011)