They should re-shoot more movies.

Rating: 8/10 (24 June 2013)

After many rewrites and re-shoots, Marc Fosters "World War Z" premiered on the 2nd June 2013 in London. I am a keen Walking Dead fan so I was avidly awaiting the release of this movie. However, after watching the trailer and knowing they delayed the release of this movie, I was not anticipating a great zombie film. All I can say is, whatever they changed in the re-shoots in Budapest, it worked out for the better. Although this is not a flawless movie, it was still quite enjoyable and worth a trip to the cinema.
The audience follows the journey of Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt) in his attempt to find a cure to the sudden outbreak of an antagonizing virus which basically causes its host to go crazy and try to infect other humans. What I did admire about this film is that it incorporated a sense of mystery about it. At various stages in the movie we witnessed that certain people did not attract the infected, rather they just completely ignored by them. This put in the audience in a similar situation to Lane which enabled them to take an interest into his story around the world.
There have been a lot of zombie films in the past so obviously not everything in World War Z is original. This movie gave the sense of the culmination of different zombie film/TV-series. There were elements from AMC's The Walking Dead, aka severing the limb to prevent further infection and also attempting to gain entry into the CDC/W.H.O facilities. The zombie's being drawn to sound is very generic in this genre, but I have never seen hundreds of them stack over each other to get over the wall. That was original.
These zombies were 28 days later zombies, fast and horrific. Some people say way too fast for a normal human, but when your rabid, maybe you would run faster than you would think capable.
This movie was not amazing or ground-breaking. It incorporated a lot of past ideas while introducing some of its own flair. Whoever Brad Pitt is married to, you cannot deny he is a superb actor and his performance as Gerry Lane backs up this claim.