Director: Marc Forster

Starring: Brad Pitt, James Badge Dale, Fana Mokoena

“Every human being we save is one less zombie we have to kill”, claims Ludi Boeken’s Mossad leader, moments before everyone around him is indiscriminately killed by a rampaging river of the undead. Many people meet a similar fate in this not-even-slightly-similar adaptation of Max Brooks’ sombre and reserved novel, but is it enough to resurrect the notoriously cursed blockbuster from production hell?

Instead of picking up several years after the end of the war, as the novel does, this version plonks you straight into the lap of Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt), an ex-UN crisis investigator given the unenviable task of globetrotting through the zombie apocalypse in search of not only ‘patient zero’, but also a potential cure for the virus. Continue reading →