As Gerry Lane, Pitt makes a believable, thinking man’s action hero. The key to the movie’s initial success is Brad Pitt.
While infuriating to fans such as myself, to a point the film still works. Any attempt at infusing the script with the social commentary present in Brooks’ book is absent. I guess the filmmakers were less interested in making this a geo-political thriller than a budget-busting action movie. Of these sequences, David Morse’s cameo as a turncoat CIA agent who just escaped North Korea (who’ve come up with a brutal but ingenious solution I won’t reveal here), and James Badge Dale’s bit as a macho Navy SEAL come the closest to Brooks’ style. Bits and pieces of Brooks’ book have made it into the film, with Pitt’s UN investigator occasionally meeting up with people who tell him stories that aren’t necessarily faithful to the book, but are in the same spirit. However, I also remember thinking to myself that it would be almost impossible to adapt into a film unless it was done as some kind of limited cable anthology miniseries (the audio book version, done in the style of a radio drama, is awesome). I read Max Brooks’ novel “World War Z” a few years ago, and I thought it was pretty amazing.
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To be fair to Goddard and Lindelof, it’s not like WORLD WAR Z is by any means a great movie prior to their new ending, but I’d certainly say it’s a good one. While this Vanity Fair article suggests the original ending was a disaster, I’m not so sure they were better off with their pricey fix, as the current version of the movie absolutely deflates once the new material begins. By that I mean everything up to the part that was re-done. Two-thirds of WORLD WAR Z are pretty damn good. Having finally seen the finished film for myself, I can say this. Everyone expected this to be some kind of disaster, but the early reviews were surprisingly positive, making it seem like whatever they did to the movie worked. We’ve all heard the stories about how the ending of the film was gutted in favor of a scaled-down, re-written (by Damon Lindelof and Drew Goddard) and reshot final forty minutes. REVIEW: Anyone who follows movie news can tell you that WORLD WAR Z has been an exceedingly troubled production. PLOT: A former UN investigator, Gerry Lane ( Brad Pitt) is forced to leave his family when a Zombie pandemic threatens the population with annihilation. ( Read JimmyO's more positive review here)
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