![]() ![]() Director Marc Foster (‘Quantum of Solace’) doesn’t hang about. It begins with some sharp thrills and jolts. And by the end, the pulse of ‘World War Z’ is pretty weak. But $200 million should have stretched to a third act – set in a laboratory in Wales – that doesn’t look like something you’d watch on BBC4 in the wee hours. That eye-popping budget buys some mindblowing scenes – the best are skin-crawlingly nightmarish shots of a swarm of zombies over-running a city like truckloads of ants in a garden. The film is adapted from Max Brooks’s novel, and Pitt stars as a UN investigator on a global mission to find patient zero in a zombie epidemic. The result looks less like a horror flick and more like a thinking man’s action-thriller – the ‘Newsnight’ of zombie films (you’ll know if that’s your cup of tea). The traditionally low-budget zombie genre has been treated to a blowout $200 million blockbuster makeover.
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