Calling the infected 'zombies' or 'undead' (or 'Zeke' as one American soldier in South Korea likes to refer to them) is more out of panic and a convenient tag to something that suddenly sprang out of nowhere in a matter of a couple weeks. It's a reality that's all too terrifyingly possible, with technology being the unforeseeably perfect means of transportation. This aspect of the plot is ultimately what I like best - the sheer hysteria and pandemonium of a highly contagious virus being the ultimate ruin of modern civilization. He's believable and a welcome presence amid the chaos as he hopes to find 'patient zero' in a worldwide zombie-like pandemic that threatens the survival of the world and his picture-perfect family. Wearing a thin scarf or perhaps a keffiyeh around his neck through most of the journey, Pitt, who I believe is also doing his first big-budget Hollywood-style disaster movie, does his best as an everyday family man - as opposed to his usually more eccentric roles. Lane follows a paper trail of comments mentioning the word zombie or bizarre outbreaks of rabid-like behavior, interviewing various individuals that have come in close contact with the infected. Shockingly, Forster and his team managed to deliver a reasonably entertaining popcorn flick with some brains.Īs in Brooks' novel, our main protagonist Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt), a former United Nations investigator, scours the world to uncover the cause behind the planet's frighteningly rapid collapse. With the sort of problems experienced by the filmmakers, raising the budget close to $200 million, you would reasonably expect a disaster on the scale depicted by the film. For a while, the production seemed at a standstill with setbacks, reshoots, and rewrites threatening to shelve it, pushing its original Christmas release date to summer, and handing writing duties off to Damon Lindelof (' Prometheus') as if out of desperation. Marc Forster's 'World War Z' may have little to do with Max Brooks' novel outside of the title and some characters, but for the most part, the blockbuster adaptation remains true to the spirit, concern, and intelligence of the book's premise.

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