Like their brethren in video games and other movies, these Z-folk are fast-moving and hard to kill, though we and Gerry eventually learn the traits that distinguish them from the rest. Then, during the drive to school, the City of Brotherly Love is rocked by explosions and suddenly full of lurching, screeching creatures who smash their heads through car windows and start gnawing the people inside, who turn into.
Pitt) takes all this in while making breakfast for his wife (Mireille Enos) and their daughters (Sterling Jerins and Abigail Hargrove) in the family’s Philadelphia home. It starts with a flurry of images establishing that we are in a familiar world of global anxiety and media distraction, as news reports about environmental and medical problems alternate with bits of celebrity gossip. “World War Z,” in other words, does not try to extend the boundaries of commercial entertainment but does what it can to find interesting ways to pass the time within them. Brooks’s “Zombie Survival Guide,” it was published at an earlier moment in the long zombie march through modern popular culture. Brooks’s book is a work of sly pseudo-history composed of data and anecdote drawn from an eerily recognizable future world. The large-scale, city-destroying sequences come early, leading toward a climax that is intimate, intricate and genuinely suspenseful.įaint praise? Maybe. And, best of all, “World War Z,” directed by Marc Forster from a script with four credited authors, reverses the relentless can-we-top-this structure that makes even smart blockbusters feel bloated and dumb. Brad Pitt, playing a former United Nations troubleshooter pressed back into service to battle the undead, wears a scruffy, Redfordesque air of pained puzzlement. Its action set pieces are cleverly conceived and coherently executed in ways that make them feel surprising, even exciting. The movie, loosely adapted from Max Brooks’s 2006 novel of the same title, is under two hours long. Zombie apocalypse? Really? Again? But if you start complaining about the lack of originality in summer movies, honestly, when will you stop? (The answer in my case is Labor Day or cocktail hour.) And in many ways, when compared with “Man of Steel,” “Iron Man 3” and “Star Trek: OMG Ricardo Montalbán!,” “World War Z” is pretty refreshing.
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