World War Z Review
So every now and again I say how sick of zombies I am, until I see something that changes zombies all together. That movie is World War Z. There are no shopping malls nor any slow walking zombies, all you have is the globe and super human twitchy, creepy as fuck flesh eaters. This movie is based off the book also titled World War z, a book I have never read but am interested in reading after seeing this. I hear that it is only one story of the book and that the sequels to World War Z will be based on other characters from the book.
The plot to this zombie filled movie starts out simple and ends up being sort of a detective type of story with trying to figure out how to stop the zombie apocalypse. The movie starts out with the beginning of the out break where Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt) is just trying to get his family out of the city and to get help. They get out due to his government connections and they help get his family to safety. In payment to saving his family and keeping them safe he must go to South Korea and figure out where this virus all originated from. Now I don't know about the rest of you but I have never seen a zombie movie go global like this one. It is really interesting to see the different locations and how certain areas deal with the plague. I do also have to praise this movie in the fact this is probably the most convincing zombie apocalypse I have ever seen. Unlike the Romero zombies these bastard are quick and lethal, plus if you get bit you turn in a matter of seconds. I could actually see how this spread as quickly as it did unlike the slower ones where I think exactly how can they not contain this? About 75 percent of this movie is Gerry going from location to location trying to figure out where this all started. I liked the different take from the traditional survivor story arc. The ending was unlike most zombie movies in where it wasn't depressing as fuck. This one actually had a ending that made you get that feeling of fuck yeah kick some zambie ass.
The director of this film is not a choice a thought could make a kick ass zombie movie. Marc Forster, he made films like The Kite Runner and Stranger Than Fiction. The guy has dipped his toe into many different genres and made good to decent films from each one. He did the one thing I didn't think was possible. The guy made a PG13 zombie movie, and he made a fantastic one at that. Normally I would mention the writer of the film but this movie had six frigging writers to it so I am not going to mention all of them. I do give them all credit from adapting a single section from the book and making a feature length film to it, and also them staying away from certain zombie clichés that annoy the crap out of me. You know the ones, someone getting bit and the group debating what to do even though everyone knows that persons fucked. Or my favorite spending a entire movie trying to get to some "safe zone" and that zone being fucked at the end.
Overall the only things I could think of as complaints are that there are a lack of main characters. The entire movie is based solely on Brad Pitts character, and the side characters might as well be faceless minions. Also the way they decide to combat the zombies I thought that while being a original idea, doing what they do has so many more repercussions. I still enjoyed the film and I think it is a great new take on the zombie franchise I give this a 4 out of 5.
The plot to this zombie filled movie starts out simple and ends up being sort of a detective type of story with trying to figure out how to stop the zombie apocalypse. The movie starts out with the beginning of the out break where Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt) is just trying to get his family out of the city and to get help. They get out due to his government connections and they help get his family to safety. In payment to saving his family and keeping them safe he must go to South Korea and figure out where this virus all originated from. Now I don't know about the rest of you but I have never seen a zombie movie go global like this one. It is really interesting to see the different locations and how certain areas deal with the plague. I do also have to praise this movie in the fact this is probably the most convincing zombie apocalypse I have ever seen. Unlike the Romero zombies these bastard are quick and lethal, plus if you get bit you turn in a matter of seconds. I could actually see how this spread as quickly as it did unlike the slower ones where I think exactly how can they not contain this? About 75 percent of this movie is Gerry going from location to location trying to figure out where this all started. I liked the different take from the traditional survivor story arc. The ending was unlike most zombie movies in where it wasn't depressing as fuck. This one actually had a ending that made you get that feeling of fuck yeah kick some zambie ass.
The director of this film is not a choice a thought could make a kick ass zombie movie. Marc Forster, he made films like The Kite Runner and Stranger Than Fiction. The guy has dipped his toe into many different genres and made good to decent films from each one. He did the one thing I didn't think was possible. The guy made a PG13 zombie movie, and he made a fantastic one at that. Normally I would mention the writer of the film but this movie had six frigging writers to it so I am not going to mention all of them. I do give them all credit from adapting a single section from the book and making a feature length film to it, and also them staying away from certain zombie clichés that annoy the crap out of me. You know the ones, someone getting bit and the group debating what to do even though everyone knows that persons fucked. Or my favorite spending a entire movie trying to get to some "safe zone" and that zone being fucked at the end.
Overall the only things I could think of as complaints are that there are a lack of main characters. The entire movie is based solely on Brad Pitts character, and the side characters might as well be faceless minions. Also the way they decide to combat the zombies I thought that while being a original idea, doing what they do has so many more repercussions. I still enjoyed the film and I think it is a great new take on the zombie franchise I give this a 4 out of 5.