Brad Pitt is retired and living the good life of a stay at home Dad when something goes terribly wrong. Zombies appear out of nowhere and a single bite turns a normal human into a zombie in ten seconds-much like the single drop of blood from those pesky infected in 28 Days Later.
World War Z is a damned good movie-who doesn’t like the idea of all those annoying people who aren’t you turning into a monster you can shot over and over again?
Our hero Brad is part of a handful of people who manage to keep just out of biting range of the ever growing horde of the undead. Wherever he goes, chaos follows, but there’s plenty of chaos without him as well, One briefly glimpsed counter has the Zombie Count at around 4 Billion. Brad zips around the world looking for Patient Zero. He puts together clues that lead to a way to defeat the mindless zombies who swarm over walls and build bridges with their bodies like army ants.
I liked the look of World War Z, even the silly business with the swarms of undead in rolling waves up the sides of buildings and pulling down helicopters. There were a few cool ideas about how to deal with zombies and the solution was clever and not what I expected.
There were still a couple of spots where common sense and logic were tossed out the window. Near the end Brad is wandering around a giant laboratory running from zombified scientists while a few normal scientists watch him on video. We now know that the zombies are drawn to sound-so why doesn’t someone turn on an alarm? Brad is also in danger of doing something lethal, so why don’t they warn him on the intercom? But these are minor gripes in a movie where the world comes to an end.
I liked World War Z, it’s the best summer blockbuster I’ve seen this year.
I’ve been searching the net to see if someone had an answer for the intercom illogic. Watching this film, I’m thinking, “Okay. So Pitt needs to go to this wing of the lab, so they’re going to call all the phones in the other wing, which will draw the zombies away.” Well, that didn’t happen. So I came up with, “If you need to mask noise, then turn on all the alarms. The zombies won’t know which direction to go.” Nope. They didn’t do that, either. They could have used the intercoms to announce, “Brains are now being served on the promenade deck*.” That would have cleared the rooms in an instant.
*I know, these zombies weren’t after brains, but only wanted to take a bite out of Brad Pitt. But, in the zombies’ defense, who doesn’t want to do that. 😉
It was a movie with more than a few plot holes and the whole we can’t talk in this super high tech facility was among the worst of them.