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World War Z

2013

Marc Forster

Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos, Daniella Kertesz, David Morse ...

6.1

74,657

Action. Sci-Fi. Thriller. Horror Life for former United Nations investigator Gerry Lane and his family seems content. Suddenly, the world is plagued by a mysterious infection turning whole human populations into rampaging mindless zombies. After barely escaping the chaos, Lane is persuaded to go on a mission to investigate this disease. What follows is a perilous trek around the world where Lane must brave horrific dangers and long odds to find answers before human civilization falls. [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Scott Foundas Variety	"Emerges as a surprisingly smart, gripping and imaginative addition to the zombie-movie canon"	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"A bunch of impressive set-pieces stitched together rather than a good story convincingly told (...) There are a few narrative surprises along the way and an absence of dumb, clunking dialogue that often infects such fare"	NEU
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"[It] does not try to extend the boundaries of commercial entertainment but does what it can to find interesting ways to pass the time within them"	NEU
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"'World War Z' is still as smart, shifty and scary as a starving zombie ready to chow down on you, baby, you (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Kate Muir The Times	"More an action blockbuster than a horror squelcher, it contains spectacular crowd scenes that have a Hieronymus Bosch quality, but the film lacks strong meat - of the emotional and bloody zombie-cannibal sort."	NEU
United Kingdom	Robbie Collin Telegraph	"There's blood and guts but no heart (...) [Foster] has done his best to piece together a story from these incompatible parts, but the final product has an elaborate uselessness (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Nick De Semlyen Empire	"The result is slick, tense and hangs together fine (...) But it's also just a little bit bland and generic. (...) This nightmarish travelogue is coy about gore, but it’s still an effective thrill-ride (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Henry Barnes The Guardian	"While some of 'World War Z' is rotten, the whole stands as a punchy, if conventional action thriller (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Kyle Smith New York Post	"Once you figure out the first rule of Zombie Fight Club — nothing too bad can happen to Brad Pitt — the movie is, despite intermittent thrills, rote (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Claudia Puig USA Today	"A well-paced, entertaining, conventional action thriller where a reluctant hero saves the day (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Matt Zoller Seitz rogerebert.com	"If you need proof that sometimes more can be less, here you go (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Mick LaSalle SFGATE	"The choreography is thought out, and the use of 3-D is at least good enough that I embarrassed myself, leaping in my seat to get out of the way of a zombie that was falling on me"	POS

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