The movie was more of a history to World War Z book

Rating: 6/10 (22 December 2019)

Let I start with a comparison between this movie and the book the movie was after. The book was about the present, in which Gerry, the main character, is interviewing people about the long past WWZ, in order to write a historical book the war through the eyes of people. In flashbacks within those stories and through some of Gerry his own eyes, we learn about that war, how we fought and overcame it and how the new world is set up. In the book more than a decade has passed since WWZ ended. Too bad the movie missed all of the essential content of the book and does not even follow the line of the original flashbacks. Like that in the movie Gerry seems to be a good guy, while in the book Gerry is a jackass. It's more of a prologue to this book and I think a more appropriate titel would have been something like A history of WWZ.
That being said, I do understand the choice to first draw the public into the world of world war z. The story's narrative is some tough cookie to chew and the way the book was written is too complicated to just copy that directly on screen. I do expect a second movie.
This movie drew me in from a good 15 minutes watching and never let me down on that front ever. Once I got over the 'it's nothing like the book' I actually enjoyed watching a creative full on encounter with zombies while looking for a cure or vaccine. Do movie lacks, in my eyes, proper CGI and believable storyline (no background of the characters made them flat as well as the choices they made) with no proper backup of actors. The movie feels empty while you're watching a set of repetitive scenes that either included bad CGI hordes of zombies, dark hallways with lots of noise or empty, dark and misty airfields. The last scene is a stretched fast forward scene in which we get to see a bit of the world after WWZ has ended. Who knows the second movie will show that works more. I do hope that the next movie does make up a bit in story telling. It was promising and fun to watch, but it was lacking a proper built up of characters resulting in a flat story. Therefore I give this movie a 6.