So this is what it all comes to...

Rating: 5/10 (17 September 2015)

If you were to feed every post-2000 Hollywood action film into a computer and have the compiler spit out randomized script, that script would look very much like World War Z. In fact, not a single scene in WWZ gets by without borrowing from some all-too-recent-past "A-list" blow-em-up apocalyptic blockbuster. Upon its conclusion, I found myself longing to watch Ed Wood (the anti-WWZ)--a film that was blatantly constructed around one of the worst B-movies of all time, yet redeemed itself with ready doses of freshness, fun and yes-- originality.
Alas movielovers, those days are long gone and the pre-fab vampiric zombie hobbits have taken control.
To be fair, WWZ masks its weaknesses (read: tired constructs) well and even *transforms* them into strengths at times. It also held my attention for one hour, forty-eight minutes and thirty-nine seconds (though not a second longer). Thus, I must overlook the film's raging typhus and perhaps even call it a success (As one man said, "Filmmaking is illusionist work."). Yet the better parts of me seem to have flown around this one like a river which soon forgets anything that doesn't move along with it. 5.1/10