World War Z (2013)

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Release Date: Jun 20, 2013
Rated: N/A | Runtime: 116 Mins | Language: English
Director: Marc Forster
Stars: Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos, Abigail Hargrove, Sterling Jerins, James Badge Dale, Elyes Gabel, David Andrews

Summary

Life for former United Nations investigator Gerry Lane and his family seems content. Suddenly, the world is plagued by a mysterious infection turning whole human populations into rampaging mindless zombies. After barely escaping the chaos, Lane is persuaded to go on a mission to investigate this disease. What follows is a perilous trek around the world where Lane must brave horrific dangers and long odds to find answers before human civilization falls.

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What to Expect

My teenage son who read the book before seeing the movie complained that the only thing World War Z had in common with the book was the title. In the book, the zombies were conventionally slow and mindless, while in the movie they were fast and used their overwhelming numbers to their advantage. I'm a big fan of envelope pushing and like that these zombies were just a little bit harder to escape than they were in any previous zombie flick. In a typical zombie movie you'll see a guy running from a dozen zombies who steadily, and individually, either catch up to him or get blocked by a wall or helplessly watch the dude escape in a helicopter. In World War Z, the zombies are like a tidal wave of undead corpses crashing down everything in their path. There's no running from them. Hop on a helicopter to safety? Nope, these zombies will literally pile up on each other faster than the pilot can take off, creating a rope of corpses tethering the chopper to the doom that awaits below.