Engrossing if slightly flawed zombie epic

Rating: 9/10 (16 March 2015)

When a ravenous zombie plague descends on mankind, a determined reporter traverses the globe looking for the start of the outbreak in the hopes of instilling a cure to be able to fight off the infected and save mankind.
Overall this one was quite a surprising and enjoyable effort that was quite enjoyable. One of the better aspects here is the way this one manages to handle the infection here without really going all overboard with the concept of the infection. Presenting this in a series of trips around the world is quite a nice feat for that, managing to occupy a large portion of screen time here with the idea of going through the different stages of the efforts to contain it in the varying stages is quite an effective ploy here with the shock of the emerging creatures on the world soon turning into the main storyline which is that cross-global investigation. That also leads into the film's main plus here, which is the exciting and incredibly fun action scenes that are exhilarating as they tend to showcase a lot more than initially expected here with the opening swarm running through gridlocked New York in a seemingly massive ambush that comes off incredibly well, much like the slightly smaller supermarket sequence or the apartment escape but really culminates with the attack in Israel which features the swarm seemingly adamant about scaling the massive fortified walls and then going after the gathered survivors below which is a true spectacle that shows them overtaking the city quite easily and providing the showcase for the big escape scene. It's fun and grand in a big way which is quite nice but really shows off the CGI all too well which is the main problem here. Not that the look isn't bad, but on the whole the ravenous swarm just looks and moves too fake to really make for a believable person running around the cities and jumping over each other in massive groups. There's some great scenes but they just tend to come off way too fake here. Other than the lack of gore here which isn't too surprising considering the fact that it's more about the survival rather than the shock of seeing them rip people to pieces, this one really comes off quite well.
Rated PG-13: Violence, Language and children-in-jeopardy.