World War Z Review

World War Z

Release Date: 20th June 2013 - Australia

Production Companies
Paramount Pictures (presents)
Skydance Productions (presents)
Hemisphere Media Capital (in association with)
GK Films (in association with)
Plan B Entertainment
2DUX

Distribution 
Paramount Pictures Australia

Genre: Action/Horror

Rating: M

Runtime: 116 minutes

                123 minutes 

                (unrated edition)


Budget: $269,000,000

Box Office Gross: $540,455,876 (Worldwide)


Plot Summary
A worldwide pandemic has unleashed and is toppling governments and threatening to destroy humanity. Former United States investigator Gerry Lane is racing against time to save his family and the world from the pandemic.

Cast

Brad Pitt - Gerry Lane
Mirellie Enos - Karin Lane
Daniella Kertesz - Segen
James Badge Dale - Captain Speke
Ludi Boeken - Jurgen Warmbrunn
Matthew Fox - Parajumper
Fana Mokoena - Thierry Umutoni
David Morse - Ex-CIA Agent
Peter Capaldi - W.H.O. Doctor #1
Pierfrancesco Favino - W.H.O. Doctor #2
Ruth Negga - W.H.O. Doctor #3
Moritz Bleibtreu - W.H.O. Doctor #4
Elyes Gabel - Andrew Fassbach
Sterling Jerins - Constance Lane
Abigail Hargrove - Rachel Lane
Fabrizio Zacharee Guido - Tomas
Michiel Huisman - Ellis

David Andrews - Naval Commander

John Gordon Sinclair - Navy SEAL Chief

Gregory Fitoussi - C130 Pilot

Crew

Executive Producer/Director -
Marc Forster
Based on the Novel - Max Brooks
Screen Story/Screenplay - Matthew Michael Carnahan
Screen Story - J. Michael Straczynski
Screenplay - Drew Goddard and Damon Lindelof
Executive Producers - Brad Simpson, David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, Paul Schwake, Graham King and Tim Headington

Producers - Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner and Ian Bryce
Co-Producers: Cardiff Sequence - Mark Bakshi
and Mark Huffam
Military Advisor - Freddie Joe Farnsworth
Production Designer - Nigel Phelps
Additional Sets Designer/Supervising

Art Director - Jon Billington

Illustrator - Seth Engstrom
Supervising Art Director: Cardiff Sequence -

Chris Lowe

Senior Art Directors - Alan Gilmore

and Julian Ashby

Art Directors - Ben Collins,

James Foster and Matthew Gray

Set Decorator - Jennifer Williams

Costume Designer - Mayes C. Rubeo

Supervising Armorer - Nick Komornicki
Weapons Master - Simon Atherton
Makeup and Hair/Prosthetics Designer: Zombies -
Frances Hannon

Makeup & Hair Supervisor: Second Unit -

Jan Sewell

Prosthetics Designer: Zombies - Mark Coulier

Directors of Photography - Ben Seresin

and Robert Richardson (Uncredited)

Aerial Director of Photography - Adam Dale

Camera/Steadicam Operator - Larry McConkey

"A" Camera Operator: Second Unit - Peter Field

First Assistant Photographers - Gregor Tavenner,

Tim Battersby and Birgit Dierken

Unit Production Managers - Steve Harding

and Debra James

Supervising Location Manager - Mark Somner

Supervising Location Manager: Cardiff

Sequence - James Grant

First Assistant Director - Toby Hefferman

First Assistant Director: Second Unit -

Terry Madden

First Assistant Director: Cardiff Sequence -

Max Keene

Second Assistant Directors: Cardiff Sequence -

Matthew Baker and Paul Bennett
Second Unit Director/Stunt Coordinator -

Simon Crane

Second Unit Director: Cardiff Sequence -

Shaun O'Dell
Stunt Coordinator - Wade Eastwood

Assistant Stunt Coordinator - Rob Inch

Aerial Coordinator/Pilot: Camera - Marc Wolff

Action Vehicle Supervisor - Graham Kelly
Special Effects Supervisors - Neil Corbould
and David Watkins
Special Effects Supervisor: Cardiff Sequence -
Trevor Wood

Special Effects Coordinator - Victoria Cadiou

Visual Effects Supervisor - Scott Farrar

Visual Effects Supervisors: MPC -

Jessica Norman and Adam Valdez

Visual Effects Supervisors: Cinesite -

Matt Johnson and Simon Stanley-Clamp

Visual Effects Executive Producer: ILM -

Wayne Billheimer

Digital Effects Supervisor: Cinesite -

Andy Robinson

Animation Consultant - Andrew R. Jones
Animation Supervisor: MPC - Gabriele Zucchelli

Previsualization and Postvisualization Supervisors:

HALON Entertainment - Brad Alexander

and Michael G. Jackson

Previsualization Supervisor: HALON

Entertainment - Daniel D. Gregoire
Editors - Roger Barton and Matt Cheese

Supervising Sound Editors - Nigel Stone

and Ethan Van der Ryan

Supervising Sound Designers - Erik Aadahl,

John Marquis and Jimmy Boyle

Re-Recording Mixers - Anna Behlmer

and Lora Hirschberg

Additional Re-Recording Mixers - Terry Porter

and Tim Cavagin

Sound Mixer - Stuart Wilson

Music - Marco Beltrami

Additional Music - Matt Bellamy,

Brandon Roberts, Marcus Trumpp

and Buck Sanders

Musicians - Muse

Supervising Music Editor - John Finklea

Music Orchestrator and Conductor - Matt Dunkley

Music Recordist and Mixer - John Kurland

Review

Hollywood may have faced dark turns in cinematic history, like in 2013. For instance, each highly anticipated film from that year has suffered some drawbacks in the storyline. Take Iron Man 3, for example. It is yet to fully recover, with hit movies appealing enough to attract moviegoers. One of them is WORLD WAR Z, a slickly thrilling, entertaining and suspenseful film that re-invents the realistic approach of a zombie movie. WORLD WAR Z may have had turmoil during its production, rendering the film incoherent and messy.

Brad Pitt was a good choice and did the character justice. It was good to have an actor with such a high profile, and it was an extraordinary performance for him anyway. I would expect nothing less, as Pitt is one of those consistent actors who creates engaging and impacting characters. Many viewers who were Whovians were surprised that the British actor Peter Capaldi was in WORLD WAR Z before he went on to play a different kind of doctor in the science fiction series Doctor Who.

This movie will appeal to people in the mood for a zombie-themed action feature, including die-hard zombie fans. They will see some flaws in WORLD WAR Z and compare it to other zombie movies that have managed to do it right, such as 28 Days Later and Dawn of the Dead.

Star rating: (7/10) Good Movie

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