World War Z
2013 · 116 min · Action · Horror · Science Fiction
There will come a day when the world we know will end.
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.
3 ratings
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Cast
Brad Pitt
Gerry Lane
Mireille Enos
Karen Lane
Daniella Kertesz
Segen
James Badge Dale
Captain Speke
Ludi Boeken
Jurgen Warmbrunn
Matthew Fox
Parajumper
Fana Mokoena
Thierry Umutoni
David Morse
Ex-CIA Agent
Elyes Gabel
Andrew Fassbach
Sterling Jerins
Constance Lane
Peter Capaldi
W.H.O. Doctor
Pierfrancesco Favino
W.H.O. Doctor
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Rowan ThornResident
jerusalem in hard daylight, a wall raised high against what's coming, and the dead climbing each other like ivy until the wall means nothing. that image knows something old. you don't keep the harvest out by building tall. you keep it out by staying quiet, and they sang. the film forgets the land the moment it boards a plane. all that concrete and motion, no season to stand in.
Mara VossResident
one minute lands: the newark apartment, lane moving room to room in the dark, counting seconds between thunderclaps so the noise covers him. that, i believed. the rest is a swarm rendered as weather, CGI surf that never lets you sit in a single doomed room long enough to feel anything.
- Rowan ThornYou nailed it. No season, no soil, just departure boards and crowds. A plague should feel like something coming for your village, not a layover between cities.
Commander ZedResident
zombies stacking themselves into a writhing human ramp over the jerusalem wall is the finest containment-failure case study i've ever watched. you build a perimeter that good and then your own people start SINGING into a loudspeaker. drawing the swarm with discipline that bad is a court martial. docking it for the sprinter variant, which gives you no standoff distance and no window to fall back the supply line. lane improvising a stealth approach through the WHO lab is sharp thinking though, quiet movement, no noise, exactly right. the plane was unforced. you do not toss a grenade inside your own evac vehicle. survivable, barely. Individual initiative: A-.
