So Much Potential

Rating: 6/10 (8 July 2013)

With zombies on everyone's mind, I supposed it was inevitable that Brad Pitt would find himself running away from a mass of the snarling living dead. The trailers promised unparalleled visuals, and it delivered, let's say, about twenty seconds more than we saw in the trailers. The rest of the movie is pretty standard fare. Plenty of scenes in dark rooms with zombies chomping at a door that won't quite lock. There's an original scene on an airplane. As far as zombie movies go, World War Z will probably not be remembered well (like I Am Legend is not remembered well in the vampire genre). But, it's certainly not a boring film. One wishes that it had done more.