2 out of 5. Totally bloodless. Zero gore. A horror movie for the whole family. The zombies were 28 Days Later-style, just bite and run on the next person.

Any given episode of Walking Dead has more gore than this movie.

If you want to see real blood splatter and fast zombies that are actually scary then re-watch the Dawn of the Dead remake.

World War Z is another nail in the coffin of the played-out zombie genre.

So, besides the fact that you didn't like the lack of blood and gore, which I find completely unappealing and a nail in the coffin of actual story telling, do you have a review of the movie?

The "actual story telling" in this movie has been told before, many many times. From the 28 Days Later/Dawn of the Dead fast running zombies to the escape from the city in a RV. Just like in War of the Worlds, where Tom Cruise escapes a city in chaos in a minivan, Pitt and family escape in a RV while things blow up around them. And I know the ending was re-shot. I don't know what the original ending was, but the one they tacked on was just too neat and tidy.

Spoiler - Pitt, a crack UN investigator, figures out that the zombies don't attack people who are terminal. So he is in a biohazard lab, gathering vials of various nasty stuff to test his theory. He's dumping them all into a container. A zombie starts pawing at the door. Pitt grabs a random vial and injects himself. Then, he is able to walk past the zombie. But what did he inject himself with? HIV? Bubonic plague? We don't know, it's just assumed that whatever it was is easily cured.

Anyway, adding an element of camp, some over the top violence and gore, some humor, might have made it better.

Posted by Esoterik Pitt grabs a random vial and injects himself. Then, he is able to walk past the zombie. But what did he inject himself with? HIV? Bubonic plague? We don't know, it's just assumed that whatever it was is easily cured.

For real? Its not addressed in any way? That's gonna piss me off.

Posted by MutantMandias For real? Its not addressed in any way? That's gonna piss me off.

Yes they show Pitt getting a shot from a doctor in the final scenes - it's assumed they are giving him a cure for whatever he injected himself with.

Maybe there was a narrative at the time explaining things - but during that scene my son said "he figured out how to defeat the zombies, too bad he injected himself with AIDS" and we were laughing.....

Sigh.

Posted by Esoterik Yes they show Pitt getting a shot from a doctor in the final scenes - it's assumed they are giving him a cure for whatever he injected himself with. Maybe there was a narrative at the time explaining things - but during that scene my son said "he figured out how to defeat the zombies, too bad he injected himself with AIDS" and we were laughing.....

It was Smallpox, I think.

I just couldn't believe he did THAT, along with screwing the rest of the movie up so badly. I thought as much as he "loved" the book, he'd actually try to do something with the book, instead of this mess.

What was it, like 500 million dollars and two years for this shit?

The book had a better answer to zombie elimination, which was squads of men moving in square formation with accurate bolt action rifles.

...and it was not a cure for Zombie-ism, just a way to make the Zombies lose interest in attacking the living.....but whatever, the FX were great, I love computer animation. Watching the Zombies climb on top of each other to scale a 100 foot wall was a helluva scene.

At least it would be a great advance in medical science. Every doctors office would have a zombie chained up in the corner, and if the zombie didn't come after you, they would know to schedule a bunch of blood tests.

I'm not writing the movie off as terrible and a waste of money, it was ok...just not anything new. If they didn't show the zombies swarming over the wall in all the previews it would have been a nice surprise in the movie. I just think it could have been so much more than it was.

Posted by WEKurtz ...and it was not a cure for Zombie-ism, just a way to make the Zombies lose interest in attacking the living.....but whatever, the FX were great, I love computer animation. Watching the Zombies climb on top of each other to scale a 100 foot wall was a helluva scene.

That was worth the watch alone. Just the horrible thought of it.

I am listening to the audiobook (literally) as I type this. Other than the title, and a few minor details, there isn't much in common between the book and movie. This isn't a slam; the book would be really difficult to film and would likely end up being boring a shit since it is just a series of interviewed. Makes for a really good book though (in the book, there was no solution.. just a world wide counter attack at some point).

I enjoyed the movie, and I generally prefer the fast psycho zombies to the slow lumbering zombies (the latter of which was the type of zombie in the WWZ book). The attack on Jerusalem was great and OMG. But yeah, it was was pretty much blood free... not really what I expect from a zombie movie. Walking Dead has more blood in any given 5 minutes than WWZ did in its entire run time combined. Still, I thought it was a fun movie.

Posted by yokes I am listening to the audiobook (literally) as I type this.

I listened to the audio book as well. It was one of the best audio books I've ever listened to. It's a great book to begin with, but I loved how they did the audio version.

The bitey teeth chattering scenes were successful in making most people in the theatre giggle every time. Unintentional comic relief ftw. The movie was alright. I was entertained. I think it would have been a waste in 3D. I assume there will be a sequel.

_{I liked Warm Bodies better.}

I got a hold of the unrated cut...it's better, but not great.

There's probably 20 minutes more to the movie that makes it a little better, like more shots of Jerusalem and shots of various battles around the world that help some.

Still the same shitty story though. I was hoping they'd fix it and actually say "China" instead of a military base in "Taiwan".

It could have been so much better. Like actually sticking to the fucking story of the dude wandering around the world for his book.