World War Z -- Not Bad

I forgot to talk about the movie, World War Z, which I saw last week, and it wasn't bad. My oldest son was convinced it would suck, so I only saw it with my wife and youngest son, but I thought it was pretty good. Spoiler Alert. I had only two minor problems with it.

1- Brad Pitt and his family were stuck in traffic just before the crisis hits their urban area. So it's your good old fashioned traffic jam. Only police motorcycles can zip through the small spaces between cars, and that's just what they're doing when some kind of disturbance is happening. It's just ahead and around the block from where Brad's car is stuck. Then we see the zombie's appear, and they're attacking cars and people, and everyone starts to panic. And here's the problem. Suddenly an open lane avails itself to Brad, and he veers his car through it and away from the trouble. But there was no traffic movement. Brad was boxed in a moment before, and the next moment, he's zooming away. It could be that a big truck cleared a path. But it sure looked to me that the truck made the traffic jam worse. Well, it's a movie. We can just say the crashing truck cleared a path.

But then problem number two. Be prepared for an even bigger spoiler alert.

It turns out that Brad makes it to the World Health Organization headquarters, which is still fully manned with all of their technicians. But Brad needs to get this vial of microbes from one of the wings at that complex. Only problem is that particular wing is filled with zombies. It is decided that three people will brave the zombie wing to get that vial.

So of all the healthy people there, who are the three people who go to the trouble to fight off zombies and recover that vial? Brad, of course is one of them. But Brad had just survived a PLANE CRASH, only a couple days prior to that, and he didn't survive it unscathed. A long piece of metal IMPALED HIM, right though his stomach--like sticking in one side and coming out the other! Okay, so no worries of internal bleeding or anything, Brad is superman, after all.

But who else goes with him? A female Israeli soldier goes with him. No problem. Female Israeli soldiers are terrific. But this particular female Israeli soldier had just had her HAND CHOPPED OFF by Brad himself, when she was bitten by a zombie. And that was only like a couple days before. Oh, and by the way, she was in the plane crash, too.

OK, so who else goes? Not just anyone. It's the TOP MAN of the complex, I mean, the TOP GUY. It's like, instead of sending his soldiers or security men, the President of the United States goes out on a mission that might well result in him becoming chow for a bunch of rabid zombies.

So other than that, it was a great movie. A lot of action, suspense and thrills for the whole family. I recommend it. I liked it. But I like zombie movies. Go figure.