Movie Review: World War Z

I've been skeptical of the zombie craze that's caught on within the past few years, especially after society was just seeming to recover from the vampire / werewolf scene. Zombie this, zombie that. Not being much of a Brad Pitt nor zombie fan, I nonetheless decided to go see World War Z with some friends. And I did not regret it.

Despite catching the latest showing, beginning at nearly 8:55PM, the theatre was absolutely packed. The six of us had to split up and sit in different sections because there weren't enough seats. After a few pretty awesome-looking previews (add Machete, The Wolverine, and Insidious 2 to the list of movies I need to watch) the movie started.

The movie's opening credits begin with a bunch of tactically filtered, somewhat gory TV documentaries of animals preying on other animals, insects skittering around, making your skin itch, and eating more dead animals, and random clips of news broadcasts informing you about a sudden outbreak of rabies in the human population. The movie then picks up and we find our hero in the form of Brad Pitt and his fictional family in a traffic jam in the middle of a busy city. Everything is neat and dandy until people start panicking and no one will stop screaming long enough to give Brad Pitt a straight answer as to why a police motorcycle just zoomed past and chipped off his car mirror, or why a truck just got thrown across the intersection. Or better yet, why the hell a semi is being catapulted towards the general vicinity of his traffic lane.

I'm not about to spoil the movie, but all in all, it had me at the edge of my seat. The entire theatre would echo in laughter when a zombie would repeatedly smash its face against a wall, and gasp when a zombie came out when you least expect it. Or when the zombies ever so casually form a tidal-wave of a mosh pit to scale over the hundred-something foot wall Israel built to keep them out.

Your typical Justin Bieber concert

My only complaint is hardly a complaint at all; for someone with impaired eyesight such as myself, the shifty camera views made it hard to see what was really going on-- which may have been the intent-- but in one particular scene it was enough for me to be a little bothered by it.

Would I recommend World War Z to someone?
Yes.

Would I watch it again?
Totally. Maybe even buy it when it comes out to own.

Am I going to actually read the book?
We'll see.