Director: Marc Forster
Cast: Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos, David Morse
Story: based on the novel by Max Brooks
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror
Rate: 9 / 10
"United Nations employee Gerry Lane traverses the world in a race against time to stop the zombie pandemic that is toppling armies and governments, and threatening to destroy humanity itself."
This is one great suspense movie for 2013 that will certainly give you the feeling of jumping out of surprise because of fright from the start till the end of the movie. From the time the title and a few credits had already presented at the start of the movie, and also after a few introduction to the main characters of the story, we are right away bombarded with surprise and confusion as to what has suddenly took place. By having zombies popping out of almost anywhere and very eagerly (and also very fast in running) to catch anyone, it really changes a lot of things that we might opt to do in case a zombie apocalypse might happen.
Spoiler: There are a lot of scenes wherein you'll get frustrated for individuals who caused the death of others. Thru a simple phone call or by singing out loudly of songs of worship. I'm just guessing that's what they're singing and also I have nothing against them doing their worship. The only problem is the volume of loudness of their song that will certainly make you angry after the succeeding events. There's also the foolish death of a doctor, who was the best person who could have found a cure. But the thing that really pissed me off was the phone call that was made by the wife while her husband is in the middle of biking towards the plane, in the middle of zombies. It just makes you want to leave destroy your communication with her until you get back and finish the job. End of Spoiler.
As a viewer who watched the movie without having read the novel from where it was based on, I would say that this movie gives us a new and great insight on zombies. Aside from the mode of transmission that the "zombie" virus needs, it was really amazing and shocking to see the upgrade that the zombies have in this movie in comparison to previous zombie creations. In this movie, they have now the ability to climb tall buildings and walls by forming a somewhat zombie ladder, which was made upon by the bodies of zombies climbing on top of each other. With the loss of human instinct to stay on land, the movie gives us the impression that in order to stay alive and remain free from infection of the zombie virus, one has to be either in the middle of the sea or up in the air.
I recommend watching this movie for all the zombie story fanatics out there. Even though, I had already seen this movie two times in the cinema, it still never failed to make me jump off my seat once in a while due to the surprise and fright some scenes can give its viewers.
Spoiler: There are a lot of scenes wherein you'll get frustrated for individuals who caused the death of others. Thru a simple phone call or by singing out loudly of songs of worship. I'm just guessing that's what they're singing and also I have nothing against them doing their worship. The only problem is the volume of loudness of their song that will certainly make you angry after the succeeding events. There's also the foolish death of a doctor, who was the best person who could have found a cure. But the thing that really pissed me off was the phone call that was made by the wife while her husband is in the middle of biking towards the plane, in the middle of zombies. It just makes you want to leave destroy your communication with her until you get back and finish the job. End of Spoiler.
As a viewer who watched the movie without having read the novel from where it was based on, I would say that this movie gives us a new and great insight on zombies. Aside from the mode of transmission that the "zombie" virus needs, it was really amazing and shocking to see the upgrade that the zombies have in this movie in comparison to previous zombie creations. In this movie, they have now the ability to climb tall buildings and walls by forming a somewhat zombie ladder, which was made upon by the bodies of zombies climbing on top of each other. With the loss of human instinct to stay on land, the movie gives us the impression that in order to stay alive and remain free from infection of the zombie virus, one has to be either in the middle of the sea or up in the air.
I recommend watching this movie for all the zombie story fanatics out there. Even though, I had already seen this movie two times in the cinema, it still never failed to make me jump off my seat once in a while due to the surprise and fright some scenes can give its viewers.
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