Decent zombie flick. Fresh, but not spectacular. Worth a watch.

Rating: 7/10 (11 July 2017)

I thought this was a pretty decent zombie flick. The pacing was good, but this is an action film more than a horror film. This was more World War Z than Night of the Living Dead. Some of the scenes were a bit of a stretch of the imagination, but it is a zombie film, not a biopic. There were quite a bit of "feels" which is usually hard to accomplish in a zombie film, and it actually felt pretty fresh without completely rewriting the genre. The movie effectively made you like some characters, love some characters, hate some characters, you get the point.
Something that bothers me about zombie movies is the inconsistency of the zombie mechanics. How fast and strong a zombie is, how fast people turn, etc. This movie is pretty notorious for this. One minute, people take what seems to be up to 15 minutes plus to turn, then next minute people are turning immediately. Zombies are jumping over objects and mangling a group of people, and then in the next scene one man can hold back an entire zombie hoard by himself without a scratch. It definitely pulls you away from the story for a moment.
Overall though, this was a decent film, and I had fun watching it. In the end, this is an action/horror film that should be treated as such. Don't expect everything to make perfect sense and don't expect stellar dialog and acting, although the acting is very decent for an action/horror film.