World War Z Reviews

Hollywood executives can sleep a little easier at night, once again content in the knowledge that throwing enough money at a problem can solve it.

Full Review | Original Score: C

The last third is pretty solid, if generic, zombie horror; it's unfortunately just stuck in a clunky mess of an attempted blockbuster.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

World War Z is rotten to the putrid core, which is amazing considering the amount of writers that had a chance to get this story right. Man, I'm not even going to bother with a zombie pun on this one.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/10

We've seen it all before and seen it done far, far better. E.g., 28 Weeks Later, the Holy Grail of the zombie-contagion genre.

Full Review | Original Score: C-

Thrilling special effects and a global scale almost make up for World War Z's perfunctory zombie movie cliches.

Full Review | Original Score: 5.5/10

The final act is actually the strength of the film. Apart from that, World War Z is a mess. A complete mess.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

The appropriation of Brooks' name and source material seems more like an attempt to manufacture buzz and fan base attendance (subsequent disappointment and rage be damned) through the most shallow, cynical means possible.

Full Review | Original Score: 5.5/10

A zombie film made by a parents group. A sanitised entry into the genre to ensure that twelve year-olds can lap up the action without mum or dad having to wash their sheets in the morning

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

Has some effective, genuinely scari-fying moments, but too often comes across as a bloated, overwrought affair too big and messy for any one movie to contain.

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A film that cost about as much to produce as Man of Steel culminates in Brad Pitt walking along a corridor, having broken a vending machine.

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World War Z bucks the current trend in summer blockbusters by feeling weirdly understuffed. It's an episodic adventure without enough episodes.

Full Review | Original Score: C+

Other than the CGI eye candy, which is intense, there is little in the way of layers and complexity to this portrait of pandemonium.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

Forster and co. have produced what just might be the dullest zombie movie ever made.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5

Totally uninvolving. Certainly the least scary zombie film I've ever seen.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

When the end result is so inconsistent, it's hard not to wonder how things would have turned out if the filmmakers had trusted their initial inspiration.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

Fans keen on their zombie yarns sloshing in claret and viscera will probably feel cheated by this curiously bloodless affair ...

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

A letdown with a strange mixture of epic apocalyptic material and generic zombie stuff.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

As compelling as Pitt is at reflecting the world's pain through Lane's eyes, the movie treats him too often as if he truly is the only one with loved ones to lose or a world to save.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

For all its effectiveness at portraying the horror of possible human extinction, the film's actual humans are so soulless that this could just as well be the movie version of the video game Plants vs. Zombies.

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Full Review | Original Score: 1/4

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