World War Z – Movie Review

Starring: Brad Pitt and Mireille Enos

Review (with SPOILERS): This was a pretty solid action movie that had it’s strong and weak points.  It isn’t a perfect film, but it could have been a lot worse.  You’ll enjoy it as long as you don’t think too hard about a few things.  As with a lot of stories with their good and bad points, I found that this review simply refused to coalesce into a coherent piece, so I have to resort to the old crutch of using bullet points.

• Very little to do with the novel: Let’s get this out of the way first: The film shares little more than a title with the World War Z novel by Max Brooks.  The novel is great and I recommend it to everyone who is a fan of zombie fiction.  If you saw the movie first, don’t hesitate to pick up the book because the two couldn’t be more different.  The film is a break-neck action movie with fast zombies and an actual main character.  The novel is a collection of interviews that take place AFTER the slow zombies have been put down; those interviews were compiled by a nameless UN employee who is creating a historical account of the zombie war and the interviews give a solid world-view of a zombie crisis from its inception until its solution.