Thinking Man's Zombie Movie

Rating: 7/10 (21 June 2013)

Looks like the Zombie genre is growing up. This movie goes beyond the usual blood and gore and individual heroics (Resident Evil series), to the next level.
Brad Pitt is convincing in his role. But the story isn't cohesive, there is no sense of urgency in the whole movie. It doesn't build any palpable tension as the movie progresses. All in all, it could have been a truly great movie.
And I can't figure out how this movie could have a $200M production budget. There isn't much of "action" that shows a well spent $200M (like in the Michael Bay Transformer movies). On a lighter note, if it were the US army/CIA and not the UN, this movie could have been made with $50M instead of $200M.