I like World War Z. I really do. I generally like zombie movies and I thought this one was very well put together. I liked Brad Pitt. I liked the storyline. It was fairly predictable at times but it's hard to not be so I can overlook that. For example, as soon as I found out that nobody scientist guy was going off with Brad to Korea, I knew he wasn't going to last long and lo and behold, he doesn't even make it off the plane. But, whatever. I really liked this movie and I only have two complaints. One just questioning the reality in which the movie takes place and one concerning the plot.
Where are all the fat asses? I'm not talking about the mildly overweight. I'm saying serious obesity. Recent studies have shown obesity rates in Philadelphia to be over 30% among adults yet when Brad Pitt and family are driving through the streets of Philly in a stolen RV trying to escape the oncoming horde, I failed to see a single fat person. Granted, I wasn't actively looking for any but come on, I think we would notice at least one fat zombie especially when being overweight definitely wouldn't put you at the top of the list of survivors when surviving requires outrunning a horde of zombies. Maybe obesity isn't a problem anymore when this takes place.
This brings up another question I have. Let's say, and this is a very liberal estimate, that roughly 50% of adults in Philadelphia exercise regularly and are in excellent shape. Why can all of the zombies run for long periods of time and jump like olympians? Does the virus or whatever is causing the zombie outbreak generate muscle tissue? Because in what little knowledge on the subject of symbiotic relationships that I have, the nature of this outbreak appears to be more parasitic than mutualistic. I reason this because the virus reduces the cognitive abilities of those infected to levels associated with animal cognition unless of course you can argue that lowered cognitive function and a small amount of muscle growth is beneficial to humanity.
My last complaint is about the plot. The whole movie is very suspenseful. Will Brad Pitt get out of Philly? Will his family get to the roof of the apartment building? Was he infected in the stairwell? etc. But when the time for suspense came, I didn't find any. Brad is sitting in Vault 139 with all of those deadly diseases and a zombie waiting right at the door. So he infects himself and walks right out and we all know that he'll be fine and that the zombies will avoid him. The whole movie is stressful except for what I was assuming was the climax, but it wasn't climactic. I would've gone with at least a dozen zombies trying to get into the vault and slowly prying open the door. He's rushing to find a virus to inject himself with and doesn't know which one. It makes it more panicked and random and he's able to inject himself but the zombies have just gotten in and they run and tackle him. There's lots of the weird noises that the zombies make and then they get off of him because they "smell" that he is an unhealthy host. Then he can walk right out. It's still predictable but at least it keeps with the same tone of suspense as the rest of the film.
Still, I thought World War Z was really good and I liked how they actually used the word "zombie" unlike so many other zombie related shows/movies e.g. The Walking Dead or Dawn of the Dead. So good job, World War Z.
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