Great first half, so-so second...

Rating: 7/10 (16 March 2014)

..So i was a fan of the original Max Brooks novel, but had heard enough about this movie going in to know not to expect it to be anything like that...
So I went into this movie with no expectations, and honestly was pretty impressed for the first half. This was a real smart, intense, gritty portrayal of how the world and its governments could react to an outbreak such as this. I find it very telling to learn that pretty much everything in this movie after Israel was a re-write and re-shoot, because i found the tone and intelligence of the film took a dramatic shift with the plane sequence.
Still, this is a fairly entertaining action picture that involves zombies. I would not call it horror, as it is shot to be very PG-13, but still the film is effective.