★★☆☆☆ Zombie movies, including Marc Forster's recently released blockbuster offering World War Z (2013), can often become overly tied to generic conventions. Adversely, however, what's most enjoyable about genre filmmaking is how directors bend and flex those boundaries. Sadly, Forster - still bemoaned for helming limp Bond entry Quantum Of Solace (2008) - fails to make full use of the material at hand, giving us at best a conventional zombie action flick, and at worst a tiresome bore with a bloated budget. Bratt Pitt plays Gerry Lane, the epitome of the family man, now retired from his career as a Un investigator.
We first meet Gerry in his happy Philadelphia home, making pancakes for his cherubic daughters Constance (Sterling Jerins) and Rachel (Abigail Hargrove), as well as wife Karin (Mireille Enos). On what should be a happy drive to work, the city is swarmed with extremely agile, flesh-eating creatures. This results in...
We first meet Gerry in his happy Philadelphia home, making pancakes for his cherubic daughters Constance (Sterling Jerins) and Rachel (Abigail Hargrove), as well as wife Karin (Mireille Enos). On what should be a happy drive to work, the city is swarmed with extremely agile, flesh-eating creatures. This results in...
- 10/22/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
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