Brad Pitt's character can do no wrong in this film

Rating: 5/10 (29 June 2013)

I understood going in to this movie that World War Z would be taking a departure from Max Brooks' highly respected zombie novel, so I tried to leave that disappointment at home and simply appreciate the movie for what it had to offer. As someone pointed out in an earlier review, "A wasted opportunity".
(SPOILER ALERT FROM HERE ON) That being said, it was better than expected and I was optimistic at the early scenes where Brad Pitt and family were stuck in traffic as all hell breaks loose around them. I even thought the use of CGI up to this point was done sparingly and very effectively, although I'm not a fan of CGI monsters (let's be honest, Computer Generated Imagery is just modern day "claymation"). In the traffic jam sequence you couldn't tell where the zombies were coming from as they blended in from behind the panicked pedestrians. Very creepy.
There were several other instances of well executed action-filled sequences that I believe would satisfy anyone looking to just be scared sh**less by fast moving zombies out to devour our beloved characters on the run. And to accomplish all this with a PG-13 rating and no blood just shows that a zombie movie need not rely on endless shots of gore to still be scary and entertaining. World War Z accomplishes this, for the most part.
Unfortunately, this movie was a lot of big budget special effects surrounding a mediocre script that had me wondering if our beloved main character, played by Brad Pitt, could do no wrong. On numerous occasions Pitt's character seemed to defy the impossible and was incapable of dying in this movie when all else around him did (including a SEAL team assigned to him) which came off as a little insulting to my intelligence and far-fetched (yes, even in a zombie movie).
First, there's the unexplainable escape in a borrowed RV from the downtown traffic jam as the scene simply cuts away showing Brad and family on an open road heading away from the city.
Second, the fortunate escape on a commercial airliner from the city of Jerusalem when the city is overrun followed by his miraculous survival of an airplane crash (after causing the crash by throwing and surviving the hand grenade blast as he throws it toward the rear of the plane).
Third, near the end of the movie he injects himself with an unknown virus selected at random from a box of biological hazards in an attempt to "camouflage" himself from a zombie. Forutunately, he not only selects one that doesn't kill him, but it's also the very one that disguises himself from the zombies (heavy sigh).
In a nutshell, World War Z is loaded with entertaining action which I believe serves to distract from a very disappointing storyline loaded with head-shaking, "what the f**k was that" moments.
Is is worth seeing? Sure. Worth remembering? Nope.