Left me asking myself "why"?

Rating: 4/10 (21 November 2017)

This movie left me asking so many questions. Here's a breakdown of what had me shaking my head. 1) Right from the start, when Brad Pitt was stuck in traffic, why did he floor it and drive like a maniac until he wrecked his car? 2) At the grocery store, why was his wife being attacked by looters when she had an empty cart and nothing to steal? 3) When he and his family were headed up to the rooftop, why did he suddenly shut the door behind them and trap himself with the zombies when he could have just run through the door and locked it behind him instead? 4) When he was in Jerusalem, why was there a woman singing loudly into a Mr Mic when everyone knew there were a bunch of riled up zombies on the other side of the wall? 5) When he was running to the car, why did his driver look directly at him and then speed away even though there was no immediate danger? 6) Why did his plane conveniently crash right next to the exact place he was headed? 7) Why did the doctors at the WHO tie him down and interrogate him like he was a criminal? 8) Why did he very carefully leave his only weapon outside of the lab where zombies were roaming, thus leaving himself defenseless? 9) And finally, why did an A list star like Brad Pitt do such a terribly written movie? After careful consideration, I figured out the answer to questions 1-5 plus 7-8 is: to manufacture drama even though the characters had no logical reason to 1) drive like an idiot, 2) steal an empty cart, 3) lock himself in with zombies, 4) serenade zombies, 5) abandon the guy he's hired to drive, 7) be suspicious of a concussed plane crash survivor, 8) get rid of his only weapon. To answer question #6: his plane crashed directly next to the WHO because watching him walk there would have been boring. As for question #9, which is the most important one for me: Brad Pitt did this movie because the producers paid him such an insane amount of money that he completely lost his mind.