Sub-par movie with outstanding sequences

Rating: 5/10 (8 July 2013)

I was really anxious to go watch this movie, but I came out of it wondering why I had spent all the money going into a movie that didn't convey half the fright of the book.
The book is epic, the movie fails bluntly. Sure, there are great scenes around, the zombie mountains are fearsome, but it's like they picked the book up and used 1% of it, centering around Pitt's character and that pathetic relationship with his stupid wife.
I'm sure soldiers these days get to call home and chat while trying to survive, but having a wife call you, not really knowing if that call might kill you or not... sorry, I would ditch the idiot as soon as I got home. Of course we could forgive such a thing, but the movie was full of plot holes and felt like they took the less important parts of the book and pasted it there: movie goers need dumbed down crap, eh? Half the movie is about this couple, and the other half is plain silly.
I just don't get where all the money was spent. I mean, sure, I can believe a C-130 taking-off from a carrier. It's been done. It's a stretch, but has been done. Besides it's a zombie movie, but that C-130 turns to an Antonov 12 from scene to scene. Plus, you hardly notice there's a world war, since other than a few scenes with ample outsides, 2/3 of the movie are within doors, the kind of stuff you could make with 1% the same budget.
Was Brad Pitt sucking up all the budget or something? This movie feels like nobody read the book, and got turned into a very lame PG-13 in-your-face action flick relying too much on Brad Pitt and not a lot on anything else.
Read the book, it's way more interesting.