World War Z Reviews

World War Z is a surprisingly entertaining, yet slightly generic zombie picture that shows promising scope and globe-trotting action, but suffers from too many genre cliches.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5

I always hate the shaky camera style but I think Marc Forster is better at it than Paul Greengrass. It's his editing... I guess I just speak Forster.

Full Review | Original Score: 7.5 out of 10

...a sporadically passable yet terminally misguided blockbuster that squanders its promising setup...

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

As both thrilling spectacle and escapist summer entertainment, World War Z is enormously effective, with Brad Pitt at the center hopscotching the globe in search of the origin of a zombie apocalypse.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

... the definitive zombie film for people who don't like zombie films yet want to say they liked one.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.0/4.0

The ultimate strength of World War Z is its ability to consistently create ticking-clock situations for its characters after laying out very specific parameters.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

Carried by Pitt's performance, "World War Z" is a sometimes intense story of the rise of the undead.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5

World War Z is often suspenseful and exciting even in the midst of clashing cinematic styles that were often incongruous but somehow come together eventually.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

The film doesn't hold together in any rational way, but it still has a lingering emotional power.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

... Somehow ends up being an effective action-thriller.

Full Review | Original Score: B

If you have a thirst for zombie movies, this one will quench it but won't deliver anything you haven't seen before.

Full Review | Original Score: C+

The spectacular set-piece highlights were revealed in the trailers; what's left is nothing that hasn't been done much better many times before by Romero, Danny Boyle, even AMC.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

Belarus Airlines? Why does Belarus need an airline? To transport donkeys and wood carts from one place to another? So mail order brides can have jobs as flight attendants?

Full Review | Original Score: B

Paramount takes a tale about worldwide turmoil and transforms it in to a rah rah America story with the day being saved by the hunky American...

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An intelligent Zombie Apocalypse film, starring Brad Pitt no less. Boy, I sure did not see that one coming.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10

the film's best thrills almost always rely on the terror of space rapidly collapsing, leaving you no place else to run-the very essence of panic, which is the film's primary emotional register

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

Pitt's soulful performance lends World War Z real heart and strength.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

This zombie thriller efficiently blends action sequences with investigative scenes exploring the history of the virus.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5

Loses it in the final act.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

...distinct, off-beat and fearsomely entertaining, and functions on a canvas that reaches far beyond what we are used to in pictures of this nature.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4