Likely attributed to the director re-hiring Quantum co-editor Matt Chesse, World War Z is a frantic, messily constructed him, so keen to convince you that it’s exciting and kinetic that it fails to provide even basic coverage of many of the action beats.” Shaun Munro in WhatCulture! “Anyone who has watched Forster’s Bond effort Quantum of Solace likely remembers how busily directed and edited it was, and disappointingly, exactly the same is true here. Along the way, much of the logic and “real world” feel of the film go out the window as well.” Scott Collura at IGN. And the results of that choice are even more dumb. It’s tough to discuss the ending, obviously, without spoiling it, but essentially Pitt’s Gerry … makes a really dumb choice that will decide not just his fate, or his family’s, but the world’s. World War Z‘s production problems have been well-publicized, … but it’s only during the film’s denouement that you can possibly see those fracture lines. “Less effective, unfortunately, is the third act of the film. Notwithstanding the expectation that the brave leading man and his adored family will somehow come out of it all unscathed, there are a few narrative surprises along the way and an absence of dumb, clunking dialogue that often infects such fare.” Todd McCarthy in The Hollywood Reporter. “There is certainly a tension running through between latent serious ambition and lowest-common-denominator-pleasing requirements, with the latter ruling the day most of the time without entirely erasing evidence of the former. All we know is that he loves his family, but no one has given him or his relations any exceptional qualities.” Chris Tookey in the Daily Mail. But it is horrifyingly feeble when it comes to characterisation. There’s also an effective airborne sequence. The initial panic on the streets of Philadelphia is thrillingly done, as is the fall of Jerusalem to the zombie horde. “ is most impressive in its big set-pieces. What we get is a collection of moderately violent action set-pieces untroubled by humour or broader coherence.” Robbie Collin, Independent.ie. On one side we have Lane and a roster of temporary sidekicks, and on the other, an inexhaustible supply of the living dead. “Marc Forster’s film junks the satire and multiple perspectives, and instead recasts the story as an uncomplicated globe-trotting thriller. But it’s not just the intestines that are missing – with Lane’s family crisis set against such a monumental backdrop, WWZ is sorely lacking in heart (and with it, any genuine sense of danger).” Paul Bradshaw, Total Film.
Conspicuously bloodless, the PG-13 rating rears its family friendly head whenever the camera gets too close for comfort, and a dumbed down finale looks suspiciously like a scene from every zombie flick that’s ever been made. “Forster ( Quantum Of Solace) does fast and furious perfectly, but his widescreen approach doesn’t work so well when Lane’s investigation leads him down the dingy corridors of horror movies past and present. All we do know for sure: his undeniably spectacular offering has little in common with the blackly comic source novel by Max Brooks.” Charlotte O’Sullivan in the London Evening Standard. But a more apt title would be World War Zzzzz… Rumour has it that the film’s backers, panicked by spiralling costs, leaned on Pitt to turn out a more family-friendly product. It’s Z for zombie, in case you’re wondering. This end-of-the-world epic – Brad Pitt’s ‘baby,’ which he’s been working on since 2007 – is mostly bland and extremely bloated. Of note, perhaps it’s only a coincidence, but the American publications have tended to be considerably more welcoming to World War Z than the British / Irish ones: Directed by Marc Forster and starring Brad Pitt (who also wears a producer’s hat in the film), World War Z has been a troubled production from the get-go: there were financing woes, the budget reportedly escalated from $125 million to $200 million, there were numerous rewrites and quite a bit of reshooting, in addition to a red-alert delay in the film’s release date.Īnyhow, here are a few English-language World War Z review snippets. Several World War Z reviews are in, and for the most part they have been hardly enthusiastic.
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