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Rating: 1/10 (21 March 2014)

Right out of the gate I'm going to admit that I really am sick of the new zombie genre. Maybe it's my age but I much prefer the old school zombie, you know, the poor unfortunate soul who is denied his eternal rest by some nefarious voodoo priest, a priest who raises him from the dead in order to execute some horribly fiendish plan. That's the zombies that I like. These new George Romero "flesh-eaters-without-a-cause" zombies bore me to tears. The whole premise is so silly. Something stupid reanimates corpses who crave human flesh because........... There's never a good reason for it. Never.
In World War Z we are told that the zombies are the result of some kind of bacterial infection. Once you're bitten you die in 10 seconds and are then completely reanimated as a corpse with only one thing on your mind; to infect the living! Huh??? They're completely stone cold dead! How can they have purpose and intention when they no longer have a mind?? A scientist explains at one point during the flick that they can't use counter-infections against the zombie hordes because there is no pulse. And yet the zombies in this movie can run a mile in less than a minute! They can leap 20 feet in the air! If they have no metabolism at all where on earth does all that energy come from?? How can they possibly still have vision when there is no brain activity whatsoever?? These are hands-down the stupidest of the Romero-inspired zombies I have ever had to sit thru. They're Super Zombies and, if you're like me you'll be praying for Brad Pitt to just get to the Kryptonite already 20 minutes into this snoozefest of a flick!