Just Another Zombie Movie

Rating: 3/10 (6 December 2014)

When reading this review, remember to keep an open mind. Mostly because I know a lot of people like this movie, but unfortunately I have to disagree. And this doesn't mean anyone who likes this movie is dumb or anything like that, absolutely not. I just personally didn't like this film. Okay, on to the review.
One thing to note about this movie is that it had a whole lot of production problems going in. It had rewrites, they had to shoot in different locations, etc. And this made this made all the bad parts of the movie pretty obvious as well. But for me, the reason this movie doesn't work is that the characters are about as interesting as looking at your mailbox for 2 hours. There was nobody that was interesting in this entire thing. Which is a pretty big problem considering its a zombie movie, and the thing that carries most good zombie movies for me is good characters.
Another thing that just destroyed this movie is that its so cliché. I feel like almost every single modern movie cliché in existence is used here. The shaky cam, the running amount of conveniences, the main character having a pointless family so he can be more identifiable, fast zombies (okay I actually like that one), the main character surviving injuries that pretty much most human beings couldn't survive. If I listed off all the clichés we would be here all day.
Another reason why I hate this movie is that its just another generic zombie movie. BUT WITH BRAD PITT! there isn't anything different about its story structure, its use of zombies, its characters or anything. Which is a shame, because I heard the book this is based on (saying that loosely here) actually had a lot of originality and great ideas to it. It probably was that they wanted to have this be more accessible for mainstream audiences or maybe the production problems had something to do with it, but I don't know. Anyways, I generally didn't like this film for numerous reasons. I just wished it could have been more like the book.
Final Score: 3/10