Read the book instead!!!

Rating: 6/10 (2 July 2013)

Why buy the rights to an amazing book and yet use less than one percent of the content? In it's own right it's by no means the worst zombie film but as it had such a wonderful body of work into which to delve it really squandered the potential to bring Max Brooks' work to film. It is then, just another zombie film.
Very disappointed at the lost opportunity.
This is the usual American "one man out to save the world" fantasy instead of the insightful view into what we are at our core as humans and how we 1st worlders view blights and plagues when it involves us directly versus how we seem to simply accept that the 3rd world face calamity, war, pestilence and genocide all too regularly.
I'm really amazed that stars who don't need the money and who have a history of doing art house and risky movies would be interested in simply cashing in rather than creating something unique and lasting like Fight Club for example.
Take an amazing book with a cult following and simply try and stay as close to the text as possible given the cinematic limitations that exist. Not a new or ground breaking concept.
Instead we have man versus a multitude of monsters. Using violence and cunning to save the day and return home to the clichéd wife and kids.
Such a pity.