Zombies In Jerusalem

Rating: 1/10 (19 September 2013)

Remember those moments in "Starship Troopers", that savage and nihilistic film by Verhoeven, when you start to root for the bugs? "World War Z" is so awful you can't even take sides. Down in the deepest depths of cinematic badness, where only Capital Letter BAD movies reside - down there next to von Trier's "Melancholia" - is where this monstrosity belongs. Not because of the hackneyed storyline, but because it actually uses Jerusalem as a prop. What's in the sequel? Will the zombies chew on the refugees at Zataari? Does the unbridled self- importance of these big-budget directors and stars make anything fair game for their ugly fantasies? After at least a half-dozen destructions of Manhattan since 9/11 in various dystopian blockbusters, someone must have said: "Manhattan! That's too obvious! Let's wipe out Israel! Let's turn it into a wasteland!" Seven miles deep, at the very bottom of the cinematic ocean, is where this thing belongs.