Intense and highly entertaining

Rating: 8/10 (2 July 2013)

I have to say I was very impressed with this film, I like Zombie films but many recent attempts are the same old same old. 28 days later was probably the last zombie film I really thought highly of.
World War Z has just been added to this list, it sort of tears up the rule book on what we know and creates a whole new aspect to the zombie genre. The film gets moving very early on and we initially follow the Lane family as the zombie outbreak hits the City.
From here Gerry Lane (Pitt)is reunited with the United Nations in an attempt to stop the outbreak and find a cure. We follow him to South Korea in a dark wet and eerie setting that has some very cool and intense moments. We then head to Jerusalem with an epic daytime Zombie attack which is one of the most intense things I have ever seen in a Zombie film, the pace is frenetic at times and while the plausibility may present a few issues, it is shot in a way that takes you right into the action an leaves you with little time to think.
From there Gerry finds himself in Wales after a brilliant Zombies on a plane moment. The climax ends in a more sombre and intelligent way and while it does provide a nice Hollywood ending it does also provide a bitter sweet moment for the hero of the day.
The film is highly entertaining and moves at a fast pace and provides scares and jumps as well as some great action scenes with just enough narrative and story to keep things moving along.
The 3D in this film is not so great ( virtually non existent ) I'd recommend watching in 2D as some bits seemed harder to see in 3D ( for me anyway ).
I will definitely be watching this again and will go into my top 5 zombie films based on the fact it does something new with the genre.
8/10 x