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

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 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

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

Full Review | Original Score: B

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

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

...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

A roaring good, bloody block party with The Undead.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Well-crafted, action-packed, and most impressively, not overly gory horror thrill ride... makes a credible case that even in the ubiquitous zombie milieu, less can be more.

Full Review | Original Score: B+

As both an epic of the undead and an escapist yet politically-relevant summer blockbuster, "World War Z" is a winner.

Full Review | Original Score: B+

There could be a much better version of this scenario; but there just as easily could be, and have been, versions that are incomparably worse.

Full Review | Original Score: 6.5/10

Even with the botched ending there's a lot to like about the film, but World War Z stinks with the rot of missed opportunity.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10

Plot holes are barely outnumbered by the undead. How, for example, did the zombie apocalypse bring civilization to the brink of collapse without folks hearing about it on CNN? The film's writers, as Ricky Ricardo would say, 'have some splainin to do.'

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There's less blood and more brains (put to use in the making of the film, rather than being munched on...), and it feels more streamlined than some of this summer's more bloated entries.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

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