An entertaining action movie but for those who've read the book, don't expect much

Rating: 6/10 (3 July 2013)

I went in to watch this movie with pretty high hopes but they were't completely met because the trailer of the movie that was released revealed too many significant scenes a and I already knew what was going to happen for the bulk of the film, eliminating any suspense or uncertainty that any good movie creates in the audience. However, anyone who has not read the book yet will find this movie a wild and sufficiently entertaining movie, with good action and surprise scenes. But for everyone else who've read the source novel it's a completely different story. The novel is about a journalist in post war earth (AFTER the zombie war), interviewing the most notable individuals, from different countries around the world, on how they handled the outbreak and the benefits and consequences of their strategies. The book is basically a hyper realistic, historical documentation of how a zombie outbreak would affect earth if it were to happen today. And the film disappointed. Apparently the director thought it better to make this a "one man hero film" DURING the war and it barely even incorporates even the most insignificant parts of the book. It's almost as though Marc Forster wanted to make an entirely different film but just jammed in random parts of the book where it seemed convenient. The acting and dialogue, in my opinion, were very impressive, and the zombies, albeit resembling those from the novel in no way, were very terrifying in their speed and utter clumsy and violent behaviour. The movie would've have been a more faithful and more accepted had Brad Pitt played the role of the journalist in a post apocalyptic earth, rather than a somehow "invaluable" UN official. The ending was very disappointing: a very simple "the war isn't over yet but we've found a way to deal with it...for now" kind of thing, as though the filmmaker couldn't be bothered creating a more compelling conclusion to an already mundane film.