Warning some spoilers are contained in this review.
Despite having World War Z in the title the movie isn't all that similar to the book. While the book was generally flawed with who got to hold the massive idiot ball and poorly researched effect of military gear would have in the first place it was still pretty good.
The book conveys the horrors of living in a zombie Apocalypse as society collapses and the world struggles to deal with the aftermath. The book is presented as a documentary conducted by interviewing various survivors in their current locations and detailing the events of World War Z as they saw it. This should have made a pretty good movie. Sadly the movie pretty much tosses out all this in favour of a more "action oriented" movie. Hordes of FAST ZOMZBIES that just devour humanity with occasional scenes filled with gunfire and explosions.
The main character is some UN guy running around trying to figure out where the zombie virus started from to find a cure.
The movie gets quite predictably boring with a bunch of people becoming zombie chow and the main character of course is relatively unscathed. By the hend of the movie they found a "vaccine" that somehow makes people invisible to the zombies.
I have to give the movie some credit though. The zombies were freaky with their clacking teeth and overall behaviour. The actors playing the zombies nailed the creatures down pretty well when actors were playing as zombies. The film also has some cool scenes of zombie hordes and assorted special affects. But sadly it still not quite enough to redeem the film. For supposedly being based of the book it drifted far afield from a potentially great movie to just another mediocre zombie action flick.
Watch if you like Zombie Action flicks.
Don't Watch if you were expecting something even reasonably reflecting the book and only being loosely associated with locations and zombies found in the book.
Film Nothing Like the Book
Warning some spoilers are contained in this review.
Despite having World War Z in the title the movie isn't all that similar to the book. While the book was generally flawed with who got to hold the massive idiot ball and poorly researched effect of military gear would have in the first place it was still pretty good.
The book conveys the horrors of living in a zombie Apocalypse as society collapses and the world struggles to deal with the aftermath. The book is presented as a documentary conducted by interviewing various survivors in their current locations and detailing the events of World War Z as they saw it. This should have made a pretty good movie. Sadly the movie pretty much tosses out all this in favour of a more "action oriented" movie. Hordes of FAST ZOMZBIES that just devour humanity with occasional scenes filled with gunfire and explosions.
The main character is some UN guy running around trying to figure out where the zombie virus started from to find a cure.
The movie gets quite predictably boring with a bunch of people becoming zombie chow and the main character of course is relatively unscathed. By the hend of the movie they found a "vaccine" that somehow makes people invisible to the zombies.
I have to give the movie some credit though. The zombies were freaky with their clacking teeth and overall behaviour. The actors playing the zombies nailed the creatures down pretty well when actors were playing as zombies. The film also has some cool scenes of zombie hordes and assorted special affects. But sadly it still not quite enough to redeem the film. For supposedly being based of the book it drifted far afield from a potentially great movie to just another mediocre zombie action flick.
Watch if you like Zombie Action flicks.
Don't Watch if you were expecting something even reasonably reflecting the book and only being loosely associated with locations and zombies found in the book.