My only beef is that they put Pit in it - whatever happened to the idea of finding new actors?
Actually he did a very good job. He's a better actor than I used to want to admit.
Pitt's character was supposed to be highly skilled at staying alive, granted, but he was just TOO damn lucky on at least two occasions... the plane crash and the injecting himself with a disease to "camo" from the Z's. The latter theme was portrayed too simplistically... there was no way of knowing just then HOW the zombies could tell someone was "dying" of disease or etc, or how sick you'd need to be to be "invisible" to them... he just trusted to luck and with luck like that he could win the lottery twice running.
That one kinda damaged my willing-suspension of disbelief, especially after being one of only two survivors of a bad jetliner crash...
I'd say that it was way, waaay better than any movie with World War Z's premise that happened to star Brad Pitt had any business being, but I asolutely agree with your criticisms here.
The director did an excellent job of creating a tense and frightening atmosphere for the first half of the film, but he kind of messed things up by trying to endlessly "one up" himself with every new scene as things went on. By the time the movie's latter half rolled around, things were getting so overtly ridiculous as to strain the story's credibility. The mood basically transitioned from being gritty and tense, to questionable and sort of cartoonish, to "yea... they're clearly just f*cking with us at this point" over the course of less than thirty minutes.
Several people in the audience I saw it with were actually laughing out loud by the time we got to the climax. I'll give the film's creators credit for absolutely going for broke and coming out more or less ahead, but I think the finished product might've come out even better if things had been toned down just a tad. :lol:
Also, Israeli chick was completely pointless. There should've been no survivors of the plane crash besides Pitt's character, and he should've simply woken up being cared for by some random family in the English countryside after blacking out before moving on to the labratory. The film would've been much better served by introducing a new character at that point than by keeping one around who had clearly outlived their usefulness to the story at least fifteen minutes earlier for the Hell of it.
I'm a zombie enthusiast and have converted my wife, so we went and watched it the other day. She gave it 4* and I gave it 4 1/2. If you're cautious to see this because of critics and reviewers, but like the undead, go with your passion for biters!!
Son Numbah One and I went to see it yesterday...we've been stoked to see this one for months now, as we're both major zombie fans and have also read the book.
Was it good? Oh HELL YES it was good! Really good. Top ten zombie movies-ever good; maybe top five.
Atmosphere of fearful anticipation? Check.
Scary action scenes? Check.
Dark and mysterious scenes? Yup.
Now, it didn't exactly follow the book... in reality there's no way it could as the book was more a collection of "Z" survivor anecdotes, but it did mostly keep to the flavor of the book and most of the general concepts.
It was really good... but it could have been better. Spoiler warnings....
Pitt's character was supposed to be highly skilled at staying alive, granted, but he was just TOO damn lucky on at least two occasions... the plane crash and the injecting himself with a disease to "camo" from the Z's. The latter theme was portrayed too simplistically... there was no way of knowing just then HOW the zombies could tell someone was "dying" of disease or etc, or how sick you'd need to be to be "invisible" to them... he just trusted to luck and with luck like that he could win the lottery twice running.
That one kinda damaged my willing-suspension of disbelief, especially after being one of only two survivors of a bad jetliner crash...
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