World War Zooooom!!

Rating: 4/10 (30 September 2013)

If trailers ruled the worldI would never have seen this movie.
I love zombie movies, TV shows, satires, etc. But, I do not like zombies that can run faster than both Superman and The Flash combined. And there you have it, World War Z: Supersonic Zombies.
Call me old fashioned, but it's scarier and more suspenseful when they zombies were mindless corpses who barely could walk and, yet, could still sneak up on you. The one exception I will make is 2004's remake: Dawn of the Dead. Sure, they were fast and vicious, but the cast and the story clearly made up for the fast-forwarded zombies.
Here, in the adaptation of the book it's based on, IN NAME ALONE, Hero Gerry Lane travels the world in search for answers to this zombie outbreak and continuously bypasses a single bite or multiples of unrealistic tragedies. In fact, he survives so many times, this might as well been the more realistic version of Roland Emmerich's 2012 film.
Now, I'll be honest: I did have a somewhat good time here, despite the endless clichés, the lack of Rated-R Zombie gore and the 300 mph running, ant-like zombies. It just missed the mark so many times, that I can't wait to read the book that this is, again, IN NAME ONLY, based on.
Truthfully, I have NOT read the book, but from all the fans I've heard from, this movie adaptation has extremely little, or 2%, of what the book was all about. And that's too bad. This only makes me want to read that novel and forget any of this ever happened. Maybe, they'll do what they did to the HULK, quickly remake it in a few years to what it was supposed to be in the first place.
Specifically targeting the movie, it was "okay." Some hokey scenes, such as the jail lose-yer-teeth chapter or ANY presentation of a zombie going the speed of light, brought this movie down. So much so, I think there almost could've been an award-winning film here. But, no. This is just above B-Movie average and left a lot to be desired by the zombie-loving crowds.
Side Note: When I saw the trailer for this movie, and I had never heard there was a book this was based on, I was excited. UntilI saw the zombie were both running faster than a tornado's force and then building an "ant pile" against a wall. I literally could not stop laughing, and I doubt that was the reaction they had in mind when they made the preview.