"World War Z" is a surprisingly entertaining and at times suspenseful addition to a genre that has become increasingly popular in recent years: the zombie flick. It stars Brad Pitt as Gerry Lane, a retired United Nations Field Agent who just wants to relax and be with his family (wife and two daughters). The movie takes no time to unroll and soon we are thrust into an action-packed thriller when the Lane family, caught in a traffic jam, find out that all hell has broken loose and their hometown is the seeming centre of a zombie apocalypse. The "zombies" are actually people who have been bitten by other carriers of a virus that turns them into blood-thirsty, wild-eyed ghouls. Gerry has to take his family to a safer place and soon he is back from retirement and at the centre of a mission to find the origin of the mysterious disease that is quickly ravaging beings all over the planet.
The film takes the protagonist to every corner of the globe: Korea, Israel, the U.S. and Canada. It is an epic film and there are some highly-entertaining set pieces that are brimming with excitement and action. It is not all that original and ground-breaking however. The zombies that run idea is derivative of films like "28 Days Later". The characters are somewhat unoriginal and uninspired.
The use of CGI is well done and Marc Forster's direction is adequate but this definitely is not the cream of the crop as far as the genre is concerned. I haven't read the graphic novel on which the film is based but I'm betting that the film doesn't do much justice to the source material. But overall, the film is good and worth seeing for the action and suspense.
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