Plausbile Modern Entertaining Zombie Flick

Rating: 8/10 (18 August 2016)

I really enjoyed this film but after reading the book I think they could have done more.
Man meddling with genetics etc leads to a new virus that turns those infected into 'zombies'. . Once infected the change takes as little as 12 seconds before victim becomes manic ravenous zombie trying to infect others.
What I liked was how plausible it was, OK if you accept the premise of 'zombies' could exist. But the rate and speed of infection was very plausible and those infected don't stagger about they sprint. So a city could be infected within an hour.
Brad Pitt as former UN investigator, is coerced to go off in search of the initial strain/host of the virus. If he refused, his family will be removed from safety of an aircraft carrier to land based refugee centre.
So Pitt sets off with small SEAL team to find origin, goes to Korea then on to Israel where Israelis had finished a wall surrounding country just a week before outbreak.
Finally ends up in Wales in a partially infected Laboratory complex.
He realises from what he has seen on his travels, that the weakness of the Virus is the zombies won't touch the seriously/terminally ill.
Hey presto they manufacture a serum that makes healthy humans appear sick to zombies who then ignore them. Mankind has a breathing space.
A very entertaining film but after reading the book I think they could have shown much more.
In the book : The pitched battles where modern technology weapons are little use against millions of zombies.
How man hid behind natural defences mountain chains etc to attempt to regroup and develop new weapons/tactics . During winter the zombies freeze so get chance to regroup before the thaw
Where small groups held castles (or places with big defensive walls) and were supplied by air.
The book has little similarity to the film but many interesting aspects from the book could have been incorporated rather than concentrating on Pitt going off in what is obviously a pointless search for the 'host' amongst the mayhem and collapse of civilisation.
Good film 8/10 but I think it missed an opportunity to use more from the book to show mankinds 'fight' and adapting to this foe.