Absolute garbage.....

Rating: 6/10 (29 July 2013)

Max Brooks would be mortified if he if he watched this. As I understand it, once he sold the rights to Plan B (Pitts production company) he ceased to remain involved.....Big mistake Max.....you let us down. It started of well and had a lot of potential, but it just turned out to be another Hollywood CGI fest. It didn't mirror the book. It lacked all of the classic zombie movie traits....."the survival factor" - too many times throughout the movie I never felt like "Gerry" was in any danger. "Gore" - What zombie movie doesn't have blood?! I mean come on, all that money on CGI and they couldn't afford a few blood packs?! "Obligatory head shots" - It goes without saying really. Worried they'll come back to eat you? Double tap a la Zombieland! It's not just the fact that they didn't follow the book. I wouldn't have rated it as a non-book related movie for the above reasons.
SPOILER ALERT:
Now that there's a "camouflage", I'm wondering how they will make the sequel? I'm hoping they skip trying to provide us with continuity and drifting further away from the book by throwing us into the battle of Yonkers with a side plots of the downed helicopter pilot?
Anyway, this is my first review and hopefully not my last. It's a shame to start off badly reviewing an adaptation of what is my all time favourite book. =(