Almost perfect

Rating: 9/10 (24 April 2014)

it still earns high marks from me despite all its flaws. I was thoroughly entertained and the plot seemed decent and semi-original enough lead by a wonderful leading man and numerous fantastic supporting actors and actresses. The only things I did not like were the CGI-Zekes (or zombies) as I felt there wasn't a need to mutate them to a point whereby some of them looked completely computer generated and also the outbreak itself and what it took to contain it. When you look at some of the most epic disease-themed-disaster-flicks (Outbreak, Contagion, War of the Worlds, The Happening, Blindness & even the Resident Evil saga) they begin with mass chaos brought about by something seemingly minute and frivolous and end with something equally trite yet mind-boggling as its resolution. Granted, World War Z blew the standard wind open by not having to depend on patient zero to come up with its solution but it still had its issues one of which was if you can wrap your head around why Brad Pitt's character had to travel all the way to Israel to get the answers he needed to complete the puzzle given him by a seemingly crazy prisoner he met by chance in South Korea (I mean what if he hadn't even noticed or paid attention to that prisoner?) and why when he got to Israel and got his answers did he not speak up sooner warning the singing, shouting and chanting people that the Zekes (zombies) were attracted to loud sounds? Why would that flight attendant on that flight to Wales open the lift compartment upon hearing such a weird sound given the circumstances? Why wouldn't she try to protect herself first given all that she had seen previously in Israel and what are the odds that only Pitt's character and the female soldier would survive the plane crash? Too convenient. I have so many questions but for the sake of peace and entertainment, I'll let them go. Another thing that stood out to me while watching this was how Pitt's adventures in the film seemed in some way to eerily mirror his real life adventures of adopting children and globe-trotting and peacekeeping and problem-solving for the world but then again its his home production and he can very well do whatever the heck he feels like doing so long as he produces something entertaining and worthwhile, which he did here.