Zombies, lacking repartee, interesting motives or long-term strategies, make inherently dull villains - in their CGI swarms, they might as well be bees, or a wildfire, or a reverse rock slide. “World War Z” began promisingly enough, with a sudden zombie outbreak in Philadelphia that had me hoping my dream might finally come true: At last, would I see the cast of “Silver Linings Playbook” torn into pieces and devoured? Alas, nothing that interesting, or interesting at all, ever happens.ĭirected without flair by the middling Marc Forster (“Quatum of Solace”), “World War Z” consists mostly of chomping zombie near-misses as Brad Pitt, playing the world’s first useful UN worker, flies around the globe dispatching the undead, unraveling their mysteries and working out a long-term plan against the “Zekes,” as the Navy SEALs jocularly call them.
