A good movie

When I first heard about this movie, I got pretty excited. At last, we had a blockbuster starring Brad Pitt, one of the most reliable actors at work nowadays, with Marc Forster, a really exciting director, and it was an adaptation of a best-seller dealing with zombies. Basically, it sounded really awesome. Then, like everyone else, I heard that the production was far from being peachy, they re-shot a whole third and the release date was pushed by a full year. It didn't really sound promising anymore but guess what? I still enjoyed the damned thing. Of course, it was nothing great like I was hoping for but, for a blockbuster, it was still pretty entertaining. Basically, Brad Pitt carries the whole thing on his shoulders (there were maybe 3 actors I recognized and one of them, Matthew Fox was basically an extra, rather surprising for a production of this size) but he did a pretty good job. Furthermore, there were a couple of a really impressive scenes (the fall out of Israel and the plane crash). Still, the story didn't work very well. Honestly, I hope the book is better, otherwise they pretty messed up the script. I mean, I liked the background they created for the main character but, a part from that, there were so many awkward moments. Let's take the beginning for example. Indeed, Pitt's family is enjoying their breakfast, they go on their daily routine and, suddenly, out of f*cking nowhere, there is a zombie outbreak. How come they didn't hear about it before? It should take at least a couple of days for such an outbreak so they should be aware about what's going on. Also, when he goes to Israel, there is this Mossad guy explaining how they ended up protecting themselves. Seriously, what he said, did it make any sense to you? Basically, our main character got there just to make sure we could see this awesome action sequence, that's it. Finally, the way he picks up completely at random a deathly virus and by miracle the trick works was also rather unbelievable. I also wonder how this camouflage-virus does work. So, there were many things in the story that barely worked (not mentioning how often the whole theater was laughing at the behavior of the zombies) but, still, I had a good time. Nick, my step-son, is a huge fan of zombie flicks and had a blast watching this and I shared his enthusiasm. So, from a really ambitious project, it turned out to be a rather half-baked but still entertaining blockbuster and I think it is worth a look, especially if you like the genre.

7/10