Tolerable

Rating: 5/10 (25 July 2015)

I have never read the novel based upon this film adaptation, and I am glad that I didn't. Because usually I am a huge complainer when it comes to novel/author-accuracy. I tend to get P.O'ed when certain scenes/events from a novel are omitted that I hold dear in my heart, and P.O'ed when things that never occurred in a novel are include in film adaptations. It's like painting a mustache on a Rembrandt.
Okay, I ain't really all snobbish like that.
I'll probably never read the novel because Zombie novels don't interest me much anyway. The closest thing to a Zombie novel I've read is some Stephen King novel about cellphones. But I kinda liked WWZ...a little. However, there were several things I didn't agree with. Like Brad Pitt bouncing around from infected-place to infected-place and being the only one not getting bit while hundreds around him are not so lucky. I thought wrapping the magazine around his arm for bite-protection was clever. I thought infecting yourself with a deadly disease in order to make oneself undesirable/undetectable was clever. But still, although ingenious, this last one left me feeling a bit cheated.
While it wasn't the best Zombie film in the world, it certainly had some scenes that raised an eyebrow (the Zombies piling up to climb walls, for instance). And I can't say that it was boring. So it gets a 5/10 from me for at least for being something I may want to rewatch in the next 10 years or so.