Choppy, unemotional experience.

Rating: 3/10 (23 July 2013)

The movie started out fairly nonchalantly, setting the groundwork for a good disaster movie, but the pacing was too quick, they didn't let the audience have time to get comfortable with it and the Zombie outbreak already broke out.
There isn't much to the story - the plot is fairly linear - it revolves around Brad Pitt needing to get to point A and then point B, then to point C and point D.
The direction seems to indicate they wanted this to be a rich realistic experience, and yet the characterisation was mostly one dimensional - this is largely due to the flaw of direction - with too much time spent on hopping around the globe from location to location, there was very little time for audience to build a connection with the on screen characters.
The acting was horrendous - most of the actors were pretty wooden in this movie I could mistaken I was watching a bunch of CG characters on screen. Daniella Kertesz was horrific, she barely bat an eye when her hand got hacked off as if she had a mosquito bite. Brad Pitt just looked worried and tired throughout the movie with very little of anything else. Everyone else just keep dying around Brad Pitt so literally there wasn't much acting all around. David Morse had a 1 minute on screen appearance without his teeth acting slightly crazy and that was about it. I couldn't tell if Fana Mokoena is a sock puppet or not because he literally had no expression on his face when he delivered his lines. Elyes Gabel was the UN virologist who turned out to be nothing more than a skit who blew his brain out after he tripped trying to escape the zombies; pretty much every character in the movie was forgettable and I couldn't care less if they live or die.
I was also shocked to find out Matthew Fox was in the movie. Was he invisible? I certainly could not remember where I saw him in the movie - that's how forgettable his performance was in the movie.
Also, there were some colossal movie mistakes throughout the movie such as Russian Antonov An-12 turboprop transport stand in as US AIRFORCE C-130 (WTF?!) that TOOK OFF from an amphibious assault ship (which was designed ONLY for helicopter and Harrier jump jet style vertical take off and landing as there is no steam catapult or arresting gears on these ships, not to mention there is simply NO ROOM for even conventional landing - not nearly even 1/10 long or 1/5 wide enough - let alone for a GIANT transport plane to land and take off from) !!!!! Last not the least the movie ends with Brad Pitt injecting himself randomly with virus to fool the zombie and NOT die from the virus he injected himself with.
Visually it has many truly spectacular CG sequences depicting the zombies overrunning the cities. It was truly stunning, but those were too few and inbetween. In the book there was a crucial sequence where US Army had an epic showdown with the zombie hoards but got butchered in the process, this was NOT in the movie and would have been spectacular if they did.
The music score was also horrendous. Throughout the movie the music were at best underwhelming, or just totally inappropriate.
Overall, a very dull and unemotional experience. 3/10