a film of two halves

Rating: 5/10 (8 July 2013)

i haven't read the book so i am in no position to compare it with the source material. i did however read the odd paragraph about the production woes and.. the involvement of Satan's own, damon lindelof. it is also clear that the film was a vanity project for Brad ( bottomless) Pitt. To my surprise i found myself enjoying it very much.. until just over the halfway mark,, then it crashed, figuratively and literally ( in my beloved Wales ).. The last half hour of this film is appalling, they should have stuck the end credits on straight after the plane crash. As it stands there are so many pot holes in the plot it makes Prometheus look positively deep. all you had to do was blast any area where the zombies are, with , oh.. megadeath? and then you could nuke them once they were crawling all over the bass bins... the scenes in Isreal and the sequence on the plane are exceptionally well made set pieces, but a few of these does not a good movie make. Ultimately, like almost every other blockbuster this summer, a tedious letdown. wait for the DVD.... ( it was criminal to see Peter Capaldi being totally wasted to :)