With the release of Marc Forster's World War Z adaptation now less than a month away, Paramount has mounted a massive recovery and damage control/cover-up campaign to turn everyone's attention away from the bad CGI, the reshoots, and Damon Lindelof's tinkering. Their effort to change everyone's disinterested minds began when they first showed it to Deadline's Mike Fleming, who called it, "a rocking, smart, pulse-pounding big-scale pandemic with raging zombies, palpable tension, and the kind of hero star turn Pitt hasn't performed in a long time." Now it's about to hit UK theaters meaning reviews have been published, and other screenings have taken place with reactions all over. So is it any good? Did they salvage it? Maybe.
Despite being adapted from the bestselling zombie novel by Max Brooks, Paramount has insisted on not referring to World War Z as a zombie movie in any marketing or publicity. Instead, Brad Pitt stars in the global action-adventure as a UN employee trying to stop "the zombie pandemic that is toppling armies and governments, and threatening to destroy humanity itself." We've all seen trailers and crazy footage and have been following its ups and downs in development over the last few years, but now it's finally time to find out if there is anything to this studio movie, or if it's one of 2013's big disasters. What do the early reviews by celebrities and notable names say?
What do you make of all these reactions? Are they enough to convince you that World War Z might actually be good? They haven't shown it to many US-based movie bloggers or hardcore fans yet, just vocal voices online and reputable celebrities in hopes of getting the mainstream public to forget about any negative buzz (they've heard). It is an uphill battle for Paramount, that's for sure, but I'm curious if there's actually a good movie waiting to be seen or if they're just covering up a big zombie disaster with positive tweets. Only time will tell, but until then it's worth taking a quick look at the wide variety of reactions and reviews out so far.
World War Z is directed by German filmmaker Marc Forster, of films Monster's Ball, Finding Neverland, Stranger Than Fiction, The Kite Runner, Quantum of Solace and Machine Gun Preacher previously. The screenplay was written by Matthew Michael Carnahan (The Kingdom, State of Play) and revised by Damon Lindelof (Star Trek, Prometheus). It's adapted from Max Brooks' bestselling zombie book World War Z. Paramount will release World War Z in theaters on June 21st after being delayed from December last year.
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