Rent it

Rating: 7/10 (22 June 2013)

I will start by saying, rent it.
I must admit, it was a nice zombie movie. Liked the cast. Liked the plot. But there were a few issues:
1. I hate shaky cam. It's cheap. It's lazy. It's the product of The Blair Witch Project. It sucks.
2. I could have done with a lot more War, and a lot less World. I get it, Brad Pitt saves the world. But he doesn't have to travel every square inch of it.
3. Stop telegraphing. Seriously, if I can figure out what's going to happen five minutes before it happens, it's not a surprise. You need to put a twist on it.
4. The movie sets up dramatic plot points, then wraps up those plot points with a hand wave.
That said, it was above average. If you love zombies, the movie has zombie porn. Like Michael Bay loves his dramatic explosions, Marc Forster loves zombies. The waves of zombies. The crashing zombies. The climbing zombies. The twitching zombies. The lurking zombies. Unlike Resident Evil Franchise that just got silly, World War Z treats it's zombies with respect. Visually, I love the zombies.
This is the part with the spoiler
The movie ends after what I consider the second act. The movie goes through all this trouble to set up Gerry's love for his family. His family is sent to a refuge camp by some dicks. We are obviously expecting after Gerry finds the immunity serum, to return to base, find his family was shipped off, then go and rescue them from the Refuge Camp as the zombies overrun the place.
No zombies. The obvious thrilling conclusion is hand waved. It's like they ran out of budget or something. Immune Gerry running around, fighting zombies who ignore him while they try to eat his children. Kill his wife. Kill the kids. Or just make us THINK they are going to die. ANYTHING! I mean, Brad Bitt just figured out how to become invisible to zombies, take advantage of that and start to rack up the body count! Take a page from Zombieland and let Brad Pitt get his Gun-Fu on.
Your third act's thrilling conclusion is a dramatic walk down a hallway? Seriously?
So, that said, if you like zombie porn, go watch. If you are like most zombie fans and have ADD, then the director's inability to get the movie moving will drive you insane. Well, at least he didn't dwell on the obligatory Norman Rockwell picturesque life that you have to witness before the zombies show up. I think this would be better as a TV series. It's obvious the director wants to dwell on details that would be interesting, if we gave a crap about anything but zombies.
In short, hire this guy for The Walking Dead. He'd be perfect. A movie with a two hour running time obviously wasn't enough time to show everything the director wanted, or the time needed to fit in the dramatic conclusion the movie so needed.
P.S. If you introduce that a child has asthma at the start of a movie, then it needs to become a pressing issue later. It's like Chekhov's Gun. If you mention it in the first act, you need to have the gun go off in the second or third act. Otherwise, why is it hanging there?