An entertaining zombie flick, but nothing more.

Rating: 6/10 (4 September 2013)

World War Z is a film about an Ex U.N. Soldier named Gerry Lane who, after being retired, suddenly finds himself in the middle of the zombie apocalypse along with his family. And the government's price for keeping his family safe, is Gerry Lane going back into action to investigate the source of the zombie virus.
Now this film is nothing new under the sun, in fact it's basically a rehash of every zombie movie mashed together. You'll probably see most of the plot development from a mile away since other zombie films have already done it one way or another. The movie is basically following one format from one setting to another: hero goes to x place-> hero finds a clue-> complications rise-> hero fights zombies-> guy we just met dies-> hero escapes-> hero goes to y place because of the clue he found. And this happens from start to finish with every setting.
Another big complaint is, that we don't get to see much of the so called "world war" yes we get a pretty good action scene in Israel, but man i wanted more based on the trailers. We're basically following Gary all the way and the movie suffers for it.
And you could say: hey we don't get to see the war but at least we get good character development seeing as we're keeping so close to our main hero. Well i'm here to tell you it's not the case, Brad Pitt basically takes up 90% of the movie's screen time and yet his character is painfully underdeveloped, it's not even that it's bad, it's just that, if the movie focuses so much on ONE character at least develop him a little more. it would've been okay if we had more characters developed around the same depth as Brad Pitt but no, most of the characters we meet will have either 5 lines in the movie, or die right after we start to like them.
What this movie manages to pull off well is: keeping you entertained. Most of the action scenes are pretty awesome and each has something different that make it entertaining. And i credit that to director Marc Forster, he managed to make a lazy script work, even if barely. He even toned down the shaky cam after the first action sequence which every action director likes abusing nowadays.(I guess he realized you don't need Michael J. Fox as your cameraman to make a zombie apocalypse chaotic) and he manages to bring out a decent performance from basically everyone. Even the most underdeveloped, two line characters do their jobs very well. Brad Pitt himself is giving a good performance , but nothing special since the role itself didn't really demand it. Even the children were less annoying than i'd expected.
So if you like zombies and and great action, don't look any further. It's a decent flick, and you probably wont regret watching it, just don't raise your expectations too high.