A good watch but nothing too special.

Rating: 8/10 (22 June 2013)

I was quite looking forward to this movie, being a solid zombie lover. I did enjoy it to a certain extent, but a few scenes in the movie just made me think, "Really? Really? Why? You were told not to do that but yet you still did it?" I do not have a problem with the character development but some things the characters were doing were just god awful stupid.
*SPOILERS* At a scene when they go to B-Wing, they want to use stealth and be as quiet as possible to get to the medical supplies as the building is infested with zombies. Brad Pitt's character doing the sensible thing, didn't want to use the gun because it's too loud and would instantly attract the zombies attention. However, the woman decided to take it but only use it as a last resort. Okay, I can understand that, but she used it really stupidly, and you think that the woman being in the army, she would know all about being under enemy radar, but obviously not. She attracted around 2 zombie's attentions. So when she ran into another zombie, she pulled out of her gun and shot it in the head. Why? Why would you do that? Only as a last resort and she pointlessly shoots, alerting all the zombies in the building, it was ringing the dinner bell. Another scene that was just plain stupid was the song singing in Jerusalem. It makes you think if this film was really desperate for some drama by making the characters extremely stupid. A wall was surrounding Jerusalem, separating those not infected and those infected. A crowd of people from Jerusalem were singing a song, smack bang next to the wall. Okay, sure I wouldn't of expected for the zombies to actually climb over the wall, but it was going to attract a hell load more zombies outside the walls. Another scene, was the wife. This was after her husband was sent away to Korea. You'd think with a zombie apocalypse, your husband was probably away to fight on the front to help aid, that's what I would think, I wouldn't phone, I'd let them phone me. So why the hell did she phone? And why the hell wasn't Brad Pitt's phone on silent in the first place? Finally, if the military is going to pick you up on the roof and take you to safety? Why would you not go with them? Some of the characters in this movie, were literally plain ass stupid, Brad Pitt's character seems to be the only one that actually had some sense in him.
Put the dumbass characters aside. The movie wasn't unwatchable. It was pretty intense at scenes as some people were on the verge of getting eaten, this is another criticism I have of the movie. Many of the deaths, you didn't see. I wanted to see blood and gore, at least someone getting ripped apart as the rating is a 15. To be perfectly honest, it isn't really a zombie movie. Zombies want to eat humans and rip out their prey's organs, those infected were just trying to infect everyone else. It lacks the origins of a zombie movie.
The good points: Good story, good acting(pretty believible), was intense at scenes. The bad points: Characters doing stupid actions as if whoever scipted it felt as though they needed an excuse to cause some drama on screen, Lack of on-screen deaths.
All and all, was a good watch, not something I would go out of my way for to recommend to my friends or family. More of a "if you've got the time and nothing else to do, sure go watch it"