This film cost hundreds of millions of dollars to make, but it's hard to see where it all went on the screen. I was also surprised at how cheap this movie looked. The action that did make it into this film is very unsatisfying and obscure thanks to the restrictions of the PG-13 rating, and the narrative around is not engaging enough to really get me invested in it. I was very surprised that they did not cover these, especially the Yonkers scene, because they would obviously fit so well into a film and the script, even as it is now, could easily be tweaked to include or at least mention them.
However, the book's immense battle scenes - the meat of the titular Zombie War, such as the Battle of Yonkers, nuclear war between Pakistan and Iran, Chinese civil war and massive formation combat against zombies - are completely absent. The book features a lot of setpiece action scenes, and to be fair, many of these involve world cities falling to zombie infestation and the movie does do enough to cover this. What I can't understand is how the filmmakers seemingly ignored the book's most obviously cinematic content. Anything like that is completely ignored in the film, but I can at least understand how the filmmakers thought that those aspects wouldn't work in a single feature length movie. I thought that the most interesting aspects of the book were its exploration of how the Zombie plague affected social and political structures across the world. Having read the book World War Z, I could tell from the trailers for this movie that it wouldn't exactly be a faithful adaptation. What struck me about it was how much of a wasted opportunity it was, given how interesting and entertaining the source material is.
Ultimately the movie is completely forgettable and uneven, but not offensively bad or objectively terrible in any sense.
After going way over-budget and enduing a complete revision and reshoot of the final act, WWZ wasn't exactly set up for success.
The story of how World War Z was made is a lot more harrowing and suspenseful than the film itself.
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