Not a traditional zombie flick

Rating: 8/10 (21 June 2013)

Just saw World War Z. I wasn't expecting to enjoy it after the bad early reviews but I thought it was really pretty good.
It's not a traditional zombie movie at all—the zombies are more like an unstoppable, crashing wave and there's very little gore at all—it's distant or implied. The diving, leaping zombies require a little suspension of disbelief to be scary. My son said it looked like they'd been infected with CGI which is quite a good way to put it. That said, if you accept the basic silliness of gravity defying, climbing zombies (if you've seen the trailer you know what I mean) then you can enjoy it. There's plenty of suspense and the up-close-and-personal zombie encounters are rather creepy without being too horrifying. If you like zombies with mouths full of flesh and sinew, or chewing on handfuls of intestines you should go somewhere else for your gore fix. This is an *almost* family friendly zombie flick. If you to strap in for a bit of an action adventure ride with some well done, large-scale "battle scenes" then you might enjoy this.
*mild spoilers*
If you've read the excellent book be warned that this movie bears very little resemblance to it. They clearly intend to make a sequel (or sequels) and if they do (box office willing) then it might approach some of the scale of the novel. I hope they do because I'd rather like to see some of the stuff they hint at right at the end (Muscovites with flame throwers—yeah!)