The section with the soldiers seemed needlessly tacked on. And you're right about the whole radio thing. I think that had to do with the fact that they filmmakers hadn't really figured out what the ending was going to be. Originally, it was much darker, with no happy ending, but audiences hated that.
The remake of Dawn of the Dead this last summer was pretty good. And the bad girl who get chainsawed by accident was really hot, IMHO.
I thought it was fantastic. One of the best remakes I've seen. I love zombie movies!
Zombie movies are always pro-Second Amendment. In the remake, a big part of the movie was getting to Andy's gun store. Of course, all the firepower in the world couldn't save them from thousands of running zombies.
28 Days Later was set in gun-free England. I never understood why they didn't try to go to a police station and acquire some firearms.