not your typical Zombie movie-really excellent

Rating: 9/10 (18 July 2013)

I thought this was fantastic. Friends, family, and co-workers who had seen this had told me to not waste my money going. Which meant that I HAD to go. As a zombie fan this was a nice change of pace from the violence and gore typical of recent zombie films. Even such comedies such as ZombieLand were more about the fear factor or blood spattering gore than actual story line. And those that do have a story to follow like The Walking Dead go out of the way to be gory for the sake of gore. WWZ doesn't need the gore to keep your attention.
***Spoiler**** This was a film more about investigating rather than a run, shoot, and kill as much as you can. Much of the film is spent either running from, sneak past, or otherwise avoiding zombies and only engage if no other option. Those expecting something like "Rambo vs Zombies" is going to be disappointed.
Now there was a lot of shoot'em up, explosions and MASSIVE amounts of zombies, but it was not part of the main story line. Most of it was happening in the background and around the main story only intersecting sometimes where clues were hidden in the may-lay but not to the point that it distracted from the story. This is a medical pandemic movie that happens to have zombies as the medical crisis. However, like most zombie movies, the movie ends at the beginning of the problem and no solution to the problem at hand, only band-aids and the hope for a sequel.
Now notice that up till now I have not mentioned the book. The reason is that books and movies are NEVER repeat NEVER comparable. If you like a book, DON'T go see the movie based on it, you will ALWAYS be disappointed. Movies are not books and books are not movies. For the morons whining about it not being as good as the book, they would be better off going and reading another book and stay out of the theaters. As you can tell, I dislike those who badmouth movies for not following books. But with few exceptions (can count the number of exceptions on one hand with 3 fingers left over), movies never live up to books and shouldn't have to, they are different for a reason.