REVIEW: World War Z (-1 out of 5)

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Please get us out of this awful bloody movie. Please? Shoot us now. All of us.

How could this film be such a stinking pile of turd? How? It cost a mint, they’ve got Brad Pitt, it’s a zombie film for Gods sakes.

This should have bloodied brain splatter joy dripping across the big screen, it doesn’t. It’s dull and disappointing.

The Zombies end up making you laugh unintentionally. That’s not a good start. The plot is terrible, and Brad Pitt knows it as he winces throughout the film so much so that the viewing experience is akin to banging your hand in a door.

I’m pretty sure each branch of the US Military have their own personal movie budgets built into their PR divisions. Battle: Los Angeles seems to have produced by the Marines, Battleship by the Navy, US Army for Olympus has fallen (dreadful movie I had to walk out halfway through – the idea of North Koreans having the external currency funds to be able to purchase airfares to the US in the numbers to storm the White House was a difficult plot development) and I think this shlock was a Naval production as it is the Navy who the country must rely on in the and to escape the boredom of being eaten by Zombies.

The reason this Movie sucked so bad was the depoliticization of the zombies. Cult zombie director George A. Romero paints a post-apocolyptic meltdown of consumer capitalism with the have not zombies wanting to feast on the first world capitalist brains. The Dawn of the Dead remake wonderfully had the heroes holed up in a Mall.

These zombies have no politics and the result it’s like Rage Against the Machine minus the bass guitar. The zombies are some mutation by the environment to wipe out a human species that is polluting the planet. Brad’s solution has the Humans finding a way to adapt to loving with the zombies. If John Key had been the lead, his final lines for the movie once co-eistance had been arrived at would be, “I’m comfortable with that”.

Why Brad? Why? The only brain eating here is to your career.

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-1 out of 5.

2 COMMENTS

  1. Its a shame the film is so dreadful, because the book was one of the most interesting explorations of politics in the zombie canon. It wasn’t so much about the pandemic itself, but the geopolitical response and the various ways in which social class, hierarchies of authority and social relations were changed and upended after the zombies arrived. Fascinating piece of work, which bears no resemblance whatsoever to this film.

    • Exactly. In the book there’s no need for the zombies to have politics because human politics is such a large part of the story. In general I’m not a zombie story fan, I only enjoy them if they’re being told in an unusual way; Shaun of the Dead in movies; World War Z and the Jane Austen rewrites in books; Telltale Games dialogue driven Walking Dead games in gaming.

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