One of the worst films ever made

Rating: 1/10 (15 September 2013)

As of this review, this film has an unbelievable 7.1 rating. It makes me loose faith in humanity, this rating. This is a movie that is just terrible. Only the star power of Brad Pitt could have moved people to not just walk out of this film. All zombie movies have the same plot really; people become infected with a "virus" and become zombies. The heroes find a way to survive and somehow save themselves. Stop. In this vein, the film is like all the others. The only remarkable feature of this film are spectacular views of tens of thousands of zombies attacking the world's major cities. The zombies themselves are detailed and quite good at being zombies. Only zombies in fact will like this film. Brad Pitt is flat, passive, detached, calm and boring beyond belief. Every actor is disposable. The final scenes where Pitt's character figures out "the answer" is mildly clever. The fact that he is some sort of soldier (we are never clear on just who he is actually) and that he figured what all the world's sciences could not is just not believable. A lot of money was spent on mediocre special effects, almost nothing on acting. It is a plain vanilla zombie film without a single redeeming moment and quite childish. This film demonstrates why famous actors should never be producers or directors.If it has any success it is because it shows us why this is almost always true. That more than one non-zombie human being could have found this film rated above a "1" is just incomprehensible to me. maybe the zombies are already here and writing reviews and making films.