World War Z- Didn't disappoint....

Tonight I did something I haven't done in a long time. I went to see a movie on opening night. My father and I snuck out and took in a 7:10pm showing of one of the biggest movies of the summer, World War Z. My normal movie buddy my middle son Conner was swimming and my father and i decided to go in the span of like 5 minutes after dinner, so we left without telling him. I have a little bit of guilt about not taking him, and he was good heatedly upset about missing it, but I will make sure he sees it before it leaves theaters. 

I have to be honest, I was apprehensive about seeing this movie. It was full of hype since, thanks to the massive success of the Walking Dead TV show,zombies are kind of in right now. There was also a ton of controversy about the movie because it was based on Max Brook's best selling novel of the same name, and from my understanding they strayed massively from the source material. Shortly after the movie began though, all of my worries vanished and I found myself emerged into a wonderful movie. After I got into the movie, my biggest concern was that they would mess up the story along the way, but I have good news... They did not. Brad Pitt plays a U.N investigator that specializes in troubleshooting troubled areas in the world. His former boss at the U.N deems him worthwhile of rescue and arranges for him and his family to be airlifted out of Philadelphia. I guess his former U.N job makes him the guy to figure out the virus and come up with a solution. He initially resists leaving the safety of the aircraft carrier they are on off the coast of New York not wanting to leave the family, but is convinced by the guy in charge that if he is not part of the solution, him and his family have to leave, and be returned to less safe accommodations. This sets the story in motion and it does not disappoint. 

I have spoken out in the past about movies where they dull down the violence in a movie to achieve the more profitable PG-13. The primary example that comes to mind is Alien vs Predator. AVP was the crossover attempt at two fantastically violent R rated movies that any movie fan has to love. AVP had potential, but they went for profit and made a substandard movie in my opinion, by making it PG-13. Well you don't have to be a scholar to see where I am going with this because WWZ was also made as a PG-13 movie. Trust me when I say though, it does not affect the story of WWZ. There was not unnecessary gore or any blatant bloody violence, but I still found myself emerged. There were many scenes where I was literally on the edge of my seat. 

I really enjoyed this movie. In the grand scheme of zombie flicks it ranks right up there with 28 days(I understand they are not really zombies in this one, but its still a zombie movie), Shawn of the Dead and Dawn of the Dead. I personally am happy we now have another quality entry into the genre