World War Z: Look It's Brad Pitt!

Rating: 5/10 (21 July 2013)

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Preface: I have no knowledge of the Max Brooks novel with the same title, so I will not access the film's accuracy to the book. The plot will be discussed in full in this review, so there are spoilers all over the place.
INTRO:
Based on the 2006 book World War Z by Max Brooks, the film adaptation is a highly publicized blockbuster staring the one and only Brad Pitt who is tasked with finding a solution to the worlds newest pandemic, a zombie virus. The film is set in the current time period and at various cities throughout the globe that are all responding to the crisis differently. The film blends many genres together to produce a dramatic, action based horror film.
ACTING:
Brad Pitt is obviously the main attraction for this film. Anything with his name on it sells like hotcakes, and I'm not excluded from that group. I enjoyed his performance; not one of his best but it's still quality. His character is a very common one for Brad, a multi-talented, clear thinking, family oriented military man. A man's man. Someone for the entirety of the male gender to look up to and inspire to be, so the role wasn't much of a stretch for Pitt. He's got that character in his back pocket ready to go.
The rest of the cast was very difficult to judge, because there were no other characters that had any significant amount of screen time. The Lane family disappears after about the first 20 minutes. Thierry Umutoni is only seen in brief phone calls. The only character that makes it to multiple cities with Gerry is Segen, but she has maybe 3 lines in the whole film. Overall, there supporting cast is just that there to aid Gerry in his mission and not be noticed. This just makes the acting insignificant and undefined.
TAKEAWAYS:
The amount of money spent on this movie is pretty exorbitant, but the viewer can definitely see where it all went. There are a numerous airplanes used in the film as well as helicopters. The sets are very large and the animation for the zombies is very well done. That being said, the film doesn't deliver on the $190 million dollar budget that was shelled out to create the film adaptation. The movie will not be remembered even a few months from now. This isn't a movie I ever plan to watch again, let alone buy.
That said I do recommend seeing this movie at least once. It's a change from the typical zombie film and the story that followed Gerry's journey kept me involved. The more plague like scenario seems plausible versus most of the other theories on how to cause a zombie apocalypse. The $5 I spent to go see the film was well worth it and I enjoyed the two hours in the theater.
RATING:
The film gets 2.5/5 Chuck Norris thumbs ups.