World War Z is one tense film. The action and suspense starts almost immediately and doesn't let up until the film ends. The filmmakers did a brilliant job of capturing the apocalyptic tone of the story, you sincerely feel like the world is coming to an end throughout the film. Matching up with the gloomy and urgent tone, is the grand-scale action sequences. Every action scene is immense and claustrophobic with the director highlighting the importance of each causality and devastation the entire zombie epidemic is causing. The scenes in Jerusalem and on the plane are some of the most striking and impressive action sequences I've seen in recent memory. While World War Z gets the tone, intensity and action right, it fails to be something truly special primarily because of its script. Most of the script is fine: the film is pretty tightly paced and entertains while providing a competent albeit unspectacular storyline. The problem is that a majority of the key plotpoints are completely idiotic and take quite a bit away from the film's strengths. It wouldn't have bothered as much if it was only one major plot development that was kind of dumb, but it's seriously almost every single big turning point in this movie is incredibly stupid. I can't really elaborate further without giving anything away, but I was really frustrated at the screenwriters for dropping the ball during the story's key moments. The ending is also a complete cop-out and gives pretty much no closure. The whole last act of the film was re-written because of the poor reception to the original ending in test screenings. If this was the more satisfying resolution, I can only imagine how poor the initial ending was. World War Z is ultimately an enjoyable blockbuster that has a nice sense of suspense and great action sequences, but could've been much better with non-idiotic major plot developments and a more satisfying ending.
3.5/5 Stars
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