That's two characters. And it's funny that you mention the thing about the names, since I don't even know who Michael is. Seriously, we barely got to know the characters by name in this one too. I assume Michael's the one they left on the docks at the end, though, since he did mention that during the scene where they were sitting around and talking. But note that he was the only one who got to say anything there.
Maybe I've just seen too many good zombie movies (and good movies period) to have been anything but extremely disappointed with this one, especially having watched the original
Dawn of the Dead last week. That one actually had some depth, but this was pretty much two hours of shooting zombies with a couple of breaks here and there. If I wanted to see that, I'd just go hang out in an arcade near an old House of the Dead machine. And if I made small talk with a couple of the people waiting to play, I'd probably learn more about them then I learned about any of the characters in the
Dawn remake.
But keep me posted on your zombie movie hunt, Brodie -- I'd be curious to see how you think this
Dawn compares to other zombie flicks.