Different take on the Zombie genre

Rating: 10/10 (28 June 2013)

I really enjoyed this movie. I have also read the book by Max Brooks and from the start of production there was never going to much in the movie that was in the book.
The movie starts off with a nice family morning that soon turns into a desperate escape from the city as masses of unknown people/infected/zombies are running around biting every human they come across.
The lead character(Pitt) used to be a UN expert into contagious diseases and such. He contacts his old boss to find out what is going on. As seen in the trailer Gerry (Pitt) and his family get airlifted to a ship were Gerry is told, "If you cannot help us then you and your family will be taken off the ship and have to fend for yourselves."
Gerry and a few others are then sent around the world to try and piece together the clues 'mother nature leaves behind' to try and find the source of the initial outbreak. This was a bit confusing as he traveled to the Sub-Continent, Middle East and Europe in very quick succession and in the movie it seemed this was done overnight.
The zombies in this movie move very very fast. Not like the Romero like zombies portrayed in the book. I did not have a problem with this as I think it makes more sense having fast zombies take over the planet than slow shambling ones.
Gerry survives the zombie infestation on the plane and gets to the disease control centre in Wales and once there has a whole lot of zombies to dodge. This is where you really get a close look at the twitching,gnashing zombies.
I wont give anything of the ending away except the movie is looking like it may well be a trilogy if they ever want go into detail on how people survived the "Great Panic." (which would be awesome)
All in all, I thought it was a good movie! There isn't much blood and gore as these things seem to happen just off screen. It is a June/July blockbuster that the family can enjoy as long as you don't have 5 year olds.
I gave the movie 9/10