This is NOT a horror movie, it's barely a zombie movie

Rating: 5/10 (3 September 2013)

I'm coming at World War Z as a zombie veteran, I've sat through more zombie films from over the past 50 years than most others so I feel pretty qualified to give a verdict on this title.
In a world where we now have a fantastic adaptation of The Walking Dead comic book on our TV's, this movie in comparison is flashy, derivative and unimaginative.
You can't blame the source material, the novel is beautifully paced and excellently descriptive, everything this film isn't. This movie is definitely aimed more at the casual, popcorn audience other than anybody who really wants to feel anything on an emotional or cultural level. All thoughts of the novel are quickly lost and you realise that you wont emerge feeling any different than you did when it started.
My initial feelings as the movie moved through it's opening sequences were of the equally flashy and emotionless blockbuster "I Am Legend", from not being able to forget that it's Brad Pitt, it's pacing and the over the top CGI zombies I already knew that this wasn't going to be for me. No blood, no guts, no sense, no emotion, no real thought or care.
This is a disaster movie plain and simple, no questions are asked and none are answered. I never felt any jeopardy throughout the entire film and never feared for the human race. "The Day After Tomorrow" with zombies basically.
CGI, why?? All terror is lost, all lingering thoughts that this is an actual re-animated human being leave you and that feeling is never revisited. When I think of the incredible work done by Tom Savini on the "Dead" movies, especially "Day". I really struggle to understand the thinking of producers and directors on this matter, there are no iconic moments, nothing that makes you not want to turn the lights out at night, it's honestly just pointless brain (no pun intended) fodder. Use CGI when you have to, when zombies are falling from buildings or creating the worlds largest pile-on great, all other times, go with what's real, what's actually there.
I'd love to care enough to take this film apart but it's really not worth it, the makers obviously didn't care about the source material or the culture they were exploiting so I'm not going into any more detail.
There is no reason why this had to be "World War Z", other than the rights to use the title this could've been any other mainstream blockbuster which is the biggest shame of this film. What a waste.
Anybody who has even a slight interest in zombie films will instantly know that this is just filler, it serves a purpose and it'll make some money and then onto the next.
Thanks for nothing Brad.