This is easily solved. It’s a World War, right? Just have the zombies invade Russia and then wait for winter. The Earth will be back to normal before you know it.
Unfortunately for us, these zombies attacked the Northern Hemisphere during warm weather months. There’s just no freezing them out. Not yet at least. World War Z has scary zombies. You know the standard zombie stereotype: 
lethargic, dim-witted, teeming-yet-individual. It’s worse than our stereotypes of the Amish. Almost. These Amish, er, zombies are different. And Gerry (Brad Pitt) knows it. When the zombie outbreak happens, Gerry realizes he and his family, currently in a traffic jam in downtown Philly, are screwed. Yet with strange curiosity, he pauses to witness the transformation from bitten man to zombie. It’s hard to know quite what to make of a man who would jeopardize valuable fleeing time to do this, but we learn what he learns: 12 seconds. Transformation in twelve. No kidding. Uh oh.
Gerry commandeers an RV and flees to Newark. For me, this, too, defies logic to the maximum extent logic can be defied. Worst thing anybody can do in case of zombie fever outbreak is head towards a densely populated community, like Newark. Of course, Newark is pretty much a worst-case destination scenario even when there isn’t a zombie epidemic going on. Luckily, Gerry was a special forces legend, which means whatever military is left will fly to Newark, yes even to Newark, to get him.
Gotta say, I kinda like the movies in which the “we’re screwed” plot point comes loooooong before “what are we gonna do about it?” And humanity is screwed. The zombies aren’t just rabid and vicious and transform a goodie to a baddie in 12 seconds, these zombies move fast. And they’re aggressive. Angry-hornet aggressive. And they swarm. They have a hive-like mentality. Ever see insects ford the un-fordable or climb the un-climbable? The first drowns. The second drowns. The third drowns, but further out, creating a small bridge of corpses, and so on and so on until the obstacle can be conquered by the remainder. It’s spooky efficient. These are the zombies of World War Z. Good luck. I don’t wish to give away the highlights, but there are at least two scenes of “holy crap, they’re screwed!” in this film.
You know what’s funny? When Gerry starts globetrotting to find a cure with limited success at each destination, I was reminded of that Chuck Norris film: The Delta Force. Well, except that World War Z didn’t suck ass. With a bare minimum of blood, this remains one of the scariest and almost certainly the most thrilling film of 2013.
Angry zombies! Joe Bob fu!
Evolution goes down a rung.
Wait a sec; it’s the Pitts for you;
The pendulum has swung
Rated PG-13, 116 Minutes
D: Marc Foster
W: Matthew Michael Carnahan, Drew Goddard, Damon Lindelof and J. Michael Straczynski
Genre: Scary zombie
Type of person most likely to enjoy this film: People who want more from a zombie film than, “braaains.”
Type of person least likely to enjoy this film: “I don’t even like slow zombies”
