One Mom's Review - World War Z

Brad Pitt stars in this singular movie about zombies. You may not believe this but I have never swooned over Brad Pitt, okay a bit in that one movie where he was a cowboy and the girlfriend married the brother, but that was it. Actually I believe that he is a great actor. In World War Z he's not pretty, he looks like most guys, well most guys with long hair. And now that I think about it that's not most guys just guys we see on TV, movies, and in rock bands. Maybe I'm just not smitten with long hair. It's true, I am drawn much more to the football player type, you know thick neck, nice arm and leg muscles, short hair. Yep, my hubbie.

You won't find me reviewing scary movies, I don't do scary. I don't read, watch or listen to scary. There isn't enough time on this earth for me to spend two hours watching something that makes me feel so yucky. Therefore, if I review it, I don't see it as scary. Scary to me is horror: Freddie Crougar, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Scream etc. I've heard people say that Aliens or Silence of the Lambs is scary, naw, they're just thrillers. I may jump a little but I am not terrified. World War Z is a thriller tale not a horror story.

No foul language, no nudity, no sex scenes. Excellent, a movie I am able to watch without fear that my son may walk in. Withing the first few minutes in a traffic jam a cop rides by Pitt's character's car on a motorcycle and smashes into the side mirror of Pitt's car. Such a small thing, but had huge impact for the tone of the movie. The writer took a good look at today's fascination with zombies and wove it into a possible political future for out society. The race against time, the cruelty of protection, the false belief that we're safe especially if we build big tall walls all made this a really neat movie. The cast made so much sense, every part believable even the children. The strange thing is that I knew it was a glorified version of Night of the Living Dead, but I still super enjoyed it. As I have said before a great movie is one that I would watch again on a Saturday afternoon on cable networks. This is one of those movies.

Oh yeah, the name of that movie just hit me I think, Legends of the Fall?