Conned by the hype

Rating: 2/10 (23 October 2013)

After all the fuss and hype, I felt I just HAD to see this film.
Oh dear ... how did they manage to spend $200 million on this?
Same formula as was used back in the 1940s. Horrible disease that turns people into zombies. Enter hero and family, plus obligatory young child. Fight zombies every so often to wake up the audience, board planes and helicopters which are incredibly economical on fuel, then oh miracle a "cure" is suggested but one has to fight yet more zombies in order to get whatever has to be injected. Zombies fooled, worldwide joy as the "cure" is parachuted and zombies blown by deadly CGI. End of movie.
Embarrassing goofs galore. I can't use a phone in my garden shed because of the metal shelves and fittings, but the hero's wife uses hers in a metal cabin below deck in an aircraft carrier. Yeah, right... Cardiff Airport is 3 miles from the seaside in the Bristol Channel but never mind, they crash the plane somewhere in North Wales and promptly walk in the Cardiff (South Wales) laboratory. A baseball bat in a Welsh laboratory? Hello props department ... this is Wales in UK! Do your US laboratories keep cricket bats in the reception area? Incredibly stupid staff in the WHO laboratory, our hero is told in which room to go to, but not which bottles to pick! As for sick people being invisible to zombies, that's a very lazy solution.
I was conned by the hype.