Safe Zombie Movie with Brad Pitt

Rating: 2/10 (17 October 2013)

Brad Pitt plays a stay at home dad with a mysterious past. When an infection breaks out turning the majority of the world's population into zombies, it's up him to become a zombie killing super hero and save the world.
World War Z is nothing more than another overly generic, clique-filled zombie flick. The fact that the film stars Brad Pitt is the only original aspect compared to any other zombie movie, video game or television series. Instead of using practical effects, which is what makes gore-filled survival horror films fun, World War Z completely relies on CG effects that, in a matter or a year or two, will look as bad as the over-rated Will Smith film, I Am Legend. The script pretty much follows the same plot as 2012, which was barely watchable itself. What makes the films different? Audiences are more likely to go see a film starring Brad Pitt and zombies rather than John Cusack and a misinterpreted Mayan prophecy.
There were many screenwriters attached to this disaster. Give it to Drew Goddard and Damon Lindelof for delivering such a pathetic adaptation. Goddard and Lindelof started off writing silly television dramas including Nash Bridges, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Alias and Lost. Both Goddard and Lindelof since has written screenplays that proved they should have never been allowed to make the transition from television to feature films. Films that are impossible to deny that they suffered from bad writing.
The most disappointing thing about World War Z is to see director Marc Forster continue to waste his talents bringing such terrible screenplays to life. Forster has had past films such as Monster's Ball and Finding Neverland go to the Oscars. Since he has directed the most boring James Bond film to date, Quantum of Solace, and Machine Gun Preacher. World War Z has sealed his fate as just another Hollywood director unworthy of making the big budget films he is being hired to bring to life.
World War Z is disappointing in every aspect and annoyingly predictable. It is the safest zombie flick you can watch which makes it the most most stale and boring zombie flick to date.