World War Z, AKA Brad Pitt's Ego Trip

Rating: 1/10 (19 August 2013)

When will Hollywood realize that they do NOT need to fiddle, meddle, or otherwise mutilate a story to make a movie? The book is a masterpiece of socio-political commentary, showing how politics and big business allowed the plague to become a world-wide catastrophe. Instead, we are treated to how politics and big business mutilated this story and mutated it into yet another generic action movie. Instead of following a reporter around the globe ten years AFTER the war, as he gathers stories from those who fought and survived, we end up following one man on his quest to be reunited with his family. For those who have not read the book, do so. The pity is that Brad Pitt HAD a working script, written by J. Michael Straczinski, that he used in order to get the project green-lit. Instead, he tossed that script and used his own.