rawr_xoxo wrote:Well...what can I say? It holds the tension well throughout the entire film, pretty much started and got on with it without the boring lead-up that most films seem to adopt nowadays. Was I the only one who thought that it was pretty dam obvious the virus was [spoiler]rabies? (there were several mentions of outbreaks worldwide before the Z outbreak)[/spoiler], found it far-fetched that[spoiler]jeruselum knew it was going to happen before anyone else did(unless they had some involvement in it?)[/spoiler]
Once they arrived at the 'secret' research facility in wales, I struggled to see or hear a single welsh person in attendance, and failed to grasp any sense of 'surprise' as from then on, the plot and events that followed were entirely predictable.
And don't even get me started on the ending!
3/10
For that to be true, it would have to be a pretty mutated form, since what you're suggesting kills people pretty much always, and these guys weren't dropping dead. I think they were mentioning it because at first that's what they thought it was. I agree that it very easily could have been a greatly mutated form of that virus, but I don't think it was obvious that that was what it was.
The lack of Welsh people was a bit funny, though it was [spoiler]The World Health Organization[/spoiler] and not just a Welsh laboratory and therefore an entirely Welsh team would actually look out of place, since [spoiler]its a UN branch.[/spoiler] But a Welsh person would have been nice, yes.
As far as the ending goes, I found it refreshing because it was different, maybe it was disappointing for those who wanted [spoiler]a cure or final showdown[/spoiler] but I thought it was creative, and I thought how they got there was really interesting and fresh as well. [spoiler]The old guy I got but when it first happened that they were running past the kid I thought he was just deaf! Which actually did lead me to believe until they got to the WHO that he and the soldier were safe because they were injured, but being terminal makes more sense.[/spoiler]
I also keep seeing posts on Facebook, which I presume to be about WWZ, saying they hate it when zombie movies are PG-13 (these are mostly Americans). I'm not sure what more they wanted. To get an R rating the film would have needed either more blood and gore, a couple f-bombs, or a graphic sex scene. Brad Pitt won't be doing sex scenes anymore out of respect to his wife, so that's out, foul language isn't necessary, and I was cool with the amount of blood there was. Maybe they're saying it without having seen the film and just making assumptions, knowing these people it wouldn't surprise me at all if that was the case, but I'm not really sure what more was necessary.
) and have to say I really enjoyed this. Thought it moved along a pretty brisk pace, was both tense & suspenseful and had some really great set pieces. 
