Disappointing zombie apocalypse thriller; more like World War Zzzzzzzz

Rating: 6/10 (23 June 2013)

WORLD WAR Z (2013) ** Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos, Daniella Kertesz, James Badge Dale, Ludi Boeken, Matthew Fox, Fana Mokoena, David Morse, Elyes Gabel, Peter Capaldi, Pierfrancesco Favino, Ruth Negga, Moritz Bleibtreu. Disappointing zombie apocalypse thriller with former UN op Pitt (one-note Johnny in this!) enlisted into the fold to stop the pandemic overtake of a viral infection unleashing hordes of the undead on the global populace. While loosely based on the novel by Max Brooks, the pedestrian screenplay by Matthew Michael Carnahan, Drew Goddard, Damon Lindelof and J. Michael Straczynski is hindered severely in the simple fact that there is practically no real violence, some truly retarded moments of incoherency (um, not shutting your phone off while surveying a zombie-heavy environ.at.night.in.the.pouring.rain!)
nor up-and-close encounters until its predictable final act and by then Marc Forster's all- thumbs direction (a truly poor choice for this sort of film) proves you can screw up a genre flick real good. Rent any Romero flick or watch any season of The Walking Dead for visceral (and really well written dialogue) instead; pitiful.