World War Z. Not-big on brains.

Rating: Null/10 (7 April 2014)

Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt) used to work for the United Nations. He now lives quietly in Philadelphia with his wife Karin (Mirielle Enos) and their daughters. Gerry hears about an infection and moves the family to NY from Philadelphia. In New York, the rioting begins, the infection is causing people to turn into zombies. Gerry escapes New York, one step ahead of a conflagration, and gets on a ship, with the help of his U.N. friend, Thierry. (Fana Makoena) To stay on the ship, Gerry has to go to South Korea to work with immunologist, Andrew Fassbach (Elyes Gabel) but Fassbach shoots himself dead during a zombie attack. Gerry finds out that Israel has stayed relatively safe during the zombie attacks by building a wall, so he flies out of South Korea, and into Israel, but hey, zombies can climb walls, so Gerry has to hot-foot it out of Israel, with a female soldier named Segan (Daniella Kertesz), and a planeload of other survivors. Gerry thinks he's figured out a chink in the virus, but he has to figure out how to get the plane to a World Health Organization center in Cardiff, England with a zombie on the plane. Does he make it to England? Does his idea work?
World War Z is a ludicrous movie. This movie consists of Brad Pitt jet-setting around the world, staying one step ahead of the law, as it were. But as soon as the immunologist shot himself, I knew this was a Brad Pitt vanity project, he wasn't going to share the screen with anyone. How he makes it to the end of this movie strains credulity, more than once. It suffers from what every monster flick suffers from, thousands or millions may die, but the hero will never die. Any veteran horror movie watcher knows that going in, so I'm hardly giving anything away. Oddly enough, if the viewer suspends reality until the end, the denouement is actually pretty inventive. Pitt does a good job playing sensitive action-hero, (he calls his wife regularly) and the sensitive action hero is about the limit of Brad's acting ability. There really is no other acting to speak of other than Daniella Kertesz, who dies a credible job as action hero sidekick. The length is nearly two hours and drags at certain points, despite trying to be a non-stop action movie.
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