Loosely based on the book by Max Brooks (son of comic great Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft), World War Z is from my memory, the first zombie film that treats the undead as victims from a global plague like it was some sort of a disease. TV's The Walking Dead, Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later and the 2004 movie remake of Dawn of the Dead - were arguably the best ones among the zombie genre in recent years, then mix it up with plague films like 1995's Outbreak and 2011's Contagion. The result is one highly entertaining summer blockbuster that despite its deviation from the original source, the effort and labor of love of actor/producer Brad Pitt, director Marc Forster (Finding Neverland, Quantum of Solace and Monster's Ball) and their crew with all those rewrites and reshoots did not go to waste.
United Nations worker/troubleshooter Gerry Lane (Pitt) has the unenviable task of saving the world from a global pandemic that turns people into zombies at a fast rate!! From virtually wiping out the population of the eastern United States (Philadelphia, Newark, New York, D.C) to horror at a US military base in Korea, a Lord of the Rings like invasion scene in Jerusalem and a tight suspense filled climax at all places Cardiff, Wales. World War Z delivers the goods. It also helped that Brad Pitt is the only recognizable star in the film so the concentration and empathy of the audience is with him being a loving family man to his wife Karin (Marielle Enos) and their two daughters Constance and Rachel (Sterling Jerins and Abigail Hargrove) and in real life, the world's most famous father to his and partner Angelina Jolie's six kids.
I saw the film in 3D and I say that it was more of a distraction watching it with an extra pair of glasses in the cinema.Good old regular 2D is okay with the film.
