WORLD WAR Z (HOLLYWOOD ACTION MOVIE)

Directed by Marc Forster, Produced by Brad Pitt, Jeremy Kleiner, Dede Gardner and Ian Bryce. Starring Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos, Daniella Kertesz, James Badge and David Morse. Music by Marco Beltrami. Distributed by Paramount Pictures

Storyline: Gerry (Brad Pitt), a UN investigator is forced to investigate a deadly zombie outbreak across the world, through his superior at UN headquarters. He finds that the entire population in his city is fully infected with a strange rabies like infection which when bitten by the infected turns into a zombie within seconds. This pandemonium spreads fast across the world and Gerry’s family narrowly escapes the zombie attack. Gerry sets off to World Health Organisation’s Research facility at Cardiff to find a solution to the epidemic and in the meanwhile visits Jerusalem to find out how Israel was able to contain the zombies and protect the un-infected. There he discovers that the zombies only bite the healthy and not the diseased and feeble. He reaches the WHO facility with great difficulty and takes the risk of getting himself injected with an unknown deadly disease which can later be cured, from the facility’s lab. His daring attempt of trial and error goes successful as the zombies in the lab ignore Gerry’s body. He, then takes the vials of the curable disease and spreads it across the world only to protect them from zombies temporarily while zombies are eradicated slowly by the world military. The story ends with a happy re-union of Gerry with his family, who thought that Gerry was dead in his mission.

Pros: The screenplay was at its best in this movie. One would get many hair-raising moments and horrified by the way the infected zombies bite the healthy population who in turn get turned into zombies within seconds. Brad Pitt’s un-paralleled performance need not be mentioned. The emotional separation of the family when Gerry leaves to investigate the epidemic is captured very well.

Cons: Didn’t get the fact how the soldiers escaped from the zombies who were lurking everywhere and why other animals were not shown to be bitten by the zombies. There seemed to be something lacking in the direction which could not give the required punch in the climax.

My rating is 2.75 out of 5