Brad Pitt never betrays us

Rating: 10/10 (4 July 2013)

I really liked this movie. No, I even loved it! The trailer actually didn't excite me much but I love zombie movies and I know Mr. Pitt picks his movies carefully. I have never seen him playing in a bad movie. So I went and got entertained.
In this genre there is so much crap out there and it bothers me every time when movie makers present it to me, as in the last Resident Evil movies that came out. But this one doesn't waste its screen time. From the very first moment (ok, I admit after the first two minutes) it dives into action and spares us long exhausting character and story development.
The story and action goes solid, straight and unfussy catching to the line. Here and there giving us small hints at what could be the solution while still staying thrilling. Many other movies fail at that. These are the same pluses which made Judge Dred so joyful to watch. Guys, I am a girl and I am not easily impressed by action movies because often they are made up too simple as if a car chasing scene could make up for bad story-telling but however I watch them a lot because I like me some decent movie to thrill me and always hope they will deliver. Which they sometimes like this one do. This means I need the story still staying to the ground. Like here Brad is no uber-superhero genius, he can fight a little but he is not an martial-art die-hard. I like that. The story twists are plausible and not too much so the audience can keep up and does not get confused like in Inception.
Other pluses are the rest of the cast. It is great to see that female soldier at the side of the main character. She is beautiful and feminine without being forced to play the overly sexualized girl soldier pin up as in for example G.I. Joe. Also there is almost a comedic moment when the virologist dies or better kills himself at the very first chance by slipping at the plane. That got my attention because it was unexpected and then I was at a turning point. Like how will they make Brad now save the world? It could have gone the cray cray main character grows up to a uberhero and develops an outrageous plan...blah...but it went good, they managed it.