Riveting and well-done

Rating: 8/10 (30 October 2013)

World War Z has garnered its fair share of unfair reviews, to be sure, but I found it exciting and plenty scary, throughout its 2 hour length. The criticisms of others seem to all be based on expectations of how zombies are "supposed" to look and act from other zombie fare and are not based on what actually happens in this well-produced, fast-paced flick.
In fact, one of the scariest aspects of this imagining of a zombie apocalypse is how fast and ferocious are the zombie attacks and how quickly a bitten human "turns". And since the entire film takes place over about a week, it's ridiculous to complain that the zombies in it don't look decayed or festering enough. Instead, the fact it IS sometimes difficult to tell the zombies from the still-humans in the scenes of mass attacks is one of the things that makes it so frightening.
Good acting, surprising scene shifts, and effective special effects complimented the story and left me sufficiently creeped-out to recommend it for horror fans. A warning: not for little kids! The PG-13 rating is not so much for blood and gore (LOTS less than in any Walking Dead episode) as for the horrifying intensity of the action when humans confront zombies.