When Hollywood becomes the zombie...

Rating: 5/10 (13 July 2013)

Yeah... That's right: I've read M. Brooks' story (both in Portuguese and in English) and I loved it. Yeah... I'm a huge fan of living-biting movies, so I had great expectations. Yeah... Maybe I'm not the biggest fan of Pitt's. Sure these are very good reasons for how disappointed I was after watching this movie... But maybe the true reason is not the most obvious one.
If I didn't like how the story flips and turns, if I wasn't convinced by the acting, if I missed some of the classic premises of the 'zombie genre' in this movie, maybe that's because Hollywood itself became a zombie a long time ago. It keeps moving, it keeps growling, it keeps interacting with audiences... but, most of times, you can tell Hollywood is not alive anymore. And that's exactly why, in my opinion, this movie fails.
When B. Pitt got to snatch the rights of WWZ, we saw in his eyes that beautiful glitter of a kid's eye in a candy store. We anticipated the endless possibilities of a project built over the dream of a non-compromising fan, rather than over some bureaucrat's plan.
But all the options, all the solutions, all the answers were the ones we've seen over, and over, and over again, from Hollywood great contemporary 'minds'. And... guess what?... We like to be surprised, we like to be challenged by different approaches, we are opened to new perspectives. We don't need the same old and comfortable pea soup...
And this movie is a big fat disappointment. Plain and boring when it was easy to be something else...
Maybe next time. In the sequel. Another dumb option.