Monday, June 24, 2013

World War Z

This was a lot better than you might've expected from the tidal wave of disappointment - or perhaps that was more expectation of disappointment - that has surrounded the film's release. Sure it's perhaps too obviously episodic in the way that it whisks Brad Pitt from location to interesting zombie-resistin' location, and no it's not a true zombie genre movie (like I care), but it's also genuinely tense and exciting, through to a somewhat more low-key and differently satisfying climax than the preceding full-tilt action would lead you to expect (involving a haggard looking Peter Capaldi aka Malcolm from The Thick of It no less). I hope they make a sequel.

(watched this one on my own, Sunday night, imax 3d - ah glamorous bachelor lifestyle)