VIDEO: Brad Pitt Introduces Marc FosterвЂ™s Zombie Thriller вЂWorld War ZвЂ™ The quiet, pared-down nature of the sequence contrasts strongly with everything thatвЂ™s gone before, which is not a bad thing, although the very ending rather flatly wraps everything up in a jiffy. Set at a top-secret medical research facility in Wales, the sequence is a fairly simple, reasonably well-executed cat-and-mouse game in which Gerry,В SegenВ and a scientist are forced to sneak through a zombie-occupied building to grab a substance that may, or may not, hold the key to stemming the warвЂ™s tide. In the event, the scale and focus of the film is greatly narrowed in the climactic 20 minutes. Much has been made of how the final act, as originally shot, didnвЂ™t pan out and was rewritten andВ refilmedВ at considerable expense.

Covered from all perspectives, from the jammed immigrations lines of sanctuary-seekers to the aerial views revealing the cityвЂ™s warren of ancient corridors and walls, the convulsive action climaxes with Gerry and a scared, wounded but capable female soldier,В SegenВ ( DaniellaВ Kertesz), desperately climbing aboard the last plane out, a ride which itself becomes another visceral action interlude of a fairly high order. The subsequent siege of Jerusalem is unquestionably the great set piece of the film, a spectacular display of the chaotic but comprehensible victory of a staggering number of flesh-eaters finally surmounting the formidable barriers imposed by well-prepared defenders. From the cockpit, Gerry is startled by what appears to be a nuclear mushroom cloud down below, an arresting vision, to be sure, but one that oddly goes unmentioned thereafter. A tense attack drives Gerry back on the plane to head for Israel, the only nation that, as of now, is winning the war against the living dead. 1 go-to guy to solve the zombie problem, the bearded, long-haired dude is instantly dispatched to rainy South Korea, where he is advised that the North Koreans have cleverly nippedВ zombieismВ in the bud through mandatory nationwide teeth extraction. PHOTOS: Damon LindelofвЂ™s $400 Million MindДЄlthough itвЂ™s not entirely clear how GerryвЂ™s experience with terrorist actions inВ ChechnyaВ and Africa make him the worldвЂ™s No. Faced with gridlock in downtown Philadelphia that represents the havoc the undead are causing all over the world, retired United Nations troubleshooter Gerry Lane (Pitt) gets his wife, Karen ( MireilleВ Enos), and two daughters as far as Newark before his former boss Thierry ( FanaВ Mokoena) sends a chopper to rescue them from a rooftop and spirit them to the temporary haven of command central aboard an Atlantic Ocean-based vessel. MichaelВ StraczynskiВ of ChangelingВ and Thor) have worked out a scenario that feels more like a travel itinerary. Having committed to making the film a wire-to-wire exercise in eluding extreme jeopardy, director Marc ForsterВ and his battery of screenwriters ( Matthew MichaelВ CarnahanВ of The Kingdom, Drew GoddardВ of CloverfieldВ and TVвЂ™s Lost, DamonВ LindelofВ of Star Trek Into Darkness, PrometheusВ and Cowboys & Aliens, as well as Lost, and screen story scribe and original adapter J. What could have been an artistically ambitious, multiperspective look at how modern ideological and religious disarray opened the door for catastrophe has, implausibly but understandably, been reduced to the story of a classic reluctant heroвЂ™s effort to do what the collective global governments and science geniuses cannot: get to the root of why there are suddenly so many drooling, groaning, jerking and amazingly fast-moving ghouls running around the world interested only in feasting on their former fellow human beings. Exhibit A: Brooks (the son of Mel BrooksВ and Anne Bancroft) makes it clear that the zombie outbreak began in China fearful that this little detail might prevent exhibition in the worldвЂ™s most populous nation, the filmmakers decided that China should go unmentioned. PHOTOS: вЂWorld War ZвЂ™ Premiere: The Zombie Apocalypse Starts in LondonДЄ faithful adaptation of the book would have structurally resembled Steven SoderberghвЂsВ 2011 global-reach thriller Contagion, just as it would have retained loads of political material that, as lead producer Pitt himself has bemoaned, is simply not compatible with the financial imperatives of a big-budget blockbuster.

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