Film Review – World War Z

Because we all love a good disaster story, much has been made recently
about the production challenges that temporarily paralyzed the shooting
of “World War Z.” It ran overbudget, suffered through numerous rewrites,
and found its third act completely rethought by a second creative team
when the original work failed to land the proper punch. The trouble with
such compulsive rubbernecking is that “World War Z,” despite some major
malfunctions, is no train wreck. In fact, it’s a rather energized
horror picture, skillfully using the fantasy concept of a furious zombie
outbreak to construct a representation of global pandemic hysteria,
with star Brad Pitt wisely tucking in his cape to play a human being
facing doomsday, refusing the superhero path.
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