Finally, a zombie movie showing the outbreak, not just the aftermath

Rating: 7/10 (2 December 2013)

For many years I've been waiting for a zombie movie showing the outbreak on a global scale. This is what "World War Z" does, and it deserves more appreciation for that. Instead, critics moan that it was like "28 Days Later" with more budget, missing the obvious difference between those movies even though the titles say it all. For once, here is a zombie movie which gives an idea of the world wide consequences of the disease and which does not play in a post-apocalyptic setting but shows the outbreak right from the beginning. I also could not care less whether the movie was true to the novel. Nor did I miss gore. There is plenty of gory schlock out there, watch that if you need gore so much. What I didn't like though was the science. This movie had the potential to give you the feeling that this could actually happen, but the science was just too awkward for that. Still, I found the movie very entertaining, and it has a couple of very memorable scenes.