World War Z... "Mother Nature is a serial killer." This line is one of several memorable aspects about the new Brad Pitt flick, which I watched at the theater earlier today. World War Z, like the video game-adapted zombie franchise Resident Evil, takes place on a global scale (hence the former movie's title). However, unlike Resident Evil, the worldwide takeover by the walking dead (who quickly overrun everything as if they're the mammalian equivalent of fire ants) is conveyed in a more intelligent fashion in World War Z...with Pitt acting as much of a badass in this film as Milla Jovovich did in Evil—albeit with fewer weapons at Pitt's disposal. World War Z provides as much a unique take on the zombie apocalypse as the 2009 comedy flick Zombieland, and even this year's horror/romance movie, Warm Bodies (which is about a zombie who falls in love with a girl whose boyfriend's brain the zombie made a meal out of earlier... I kid you not). Of course, this film probably wouldn't have been as good without the presence of Angelina Jolie's beau (okay, not true— Tom Cruise, Matt Damon or Denzel Washington would've fit the main role just as perfectly)...who conveys such coolness as a former United Nations inspector that we actually believe that he has the guts to drink a can of Pepsi while a horde of vicious zombies rush down a hallway towards him in a climactic scene (as well as nonchalantly cutting the hand off an Israeli soldier after she gets bit in the arm by a zombie—even though Pitt's character had no inkling that this brutal amputation would stop her from turning). "Movement is life..." This quote is made by Pitt's character, and exemplifies the intense nature of World War Z. Keep running, and you live. Coming to a stop and thinking that you're safe hiding somewhere, and well, you end up becoming a grotesque creature chasing after every healthy organism that makes a loud sound—until you get shot in the head by a Navy SEAL helping Pitt save the world. Carry on.
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