What was even the point of buying the rights to the book???

Rating: 1/10 (21 June 2013)

If they had just acted out the book with sock puppets made by 5-year- olds and filmed it on a 6 year old camera phone, it would have at least had the redeeming quality of having a solid plot.
Now, I have seen some terrible book to movie adaptations. In some cases it was because the scope of the book just couldn't translate to film. For most others, it was because the producers wanted to do their own thing and didn't care about honoring the story they were deriving their movie from.
This is the second case, only a thousand times worse. The movie has so little to do with the book there is literally ZERO justification in using the same title or Paramount owning the rights. And then even besides that, the story they pulled out of their asses is terrible on its own!
I could tell the movie was going to diverge from the book from the trailers, but I didn't expect it to be so offensively full of plot holes and unjustified character choices. All of the action, conflict, and tension was derived from idiotic mistakes on the parts of the humans rather than peril from the zombies. The resolution was not only ridiculous and silly conceptually, but also totally unnecessary. You know what is guaranteed to ruin an apocalypse movie? A RESOLUTION. Granted, even without that, there was really no saving this film. The action sequences are sudden and unjustified, the CGI looks like it's from a 2003 video game, and the "zombie" concept was trying so hard to be original that it ended up being a total joke.
Seriously. They are basically dolphin/chipmunk zombies. It would have been laughable if it hadn't been so annoying.