This movie starts off by showing the main character (Gerry Lane, played by Brad Pitt) having breakfast with his family, seemingly portrayed as a typical, American family. This scene seems to set the starting point for creating an emotional connection between the fictional family and the viewers, but it doesn't quite pull it off. As always, Brad Pitt delivers an excellent acting performance, but there just isn't that genuine feel of emotion between the family. This first scene lasts a very short time as the movie jumps nearly right into the action and chaos. The transition between the two is quick and definitely well-done, but the lack of connection for Gerry and his family leaves us feeling almost entirely un-sympathetic for him when the destruction begins. Now to detail the 'destruction'... people begin to get into car crashes, explosions start going off, and police driving around all over the place. It is not clear what exactly is happening right away, which leaves some room for suspense. Once the movie begins to showcase the crazy car crashes and other forms of mass destruction, I have to point out that it does focus a lot on these visuals, but it seems to fail big time on focusing on the realistic outcome of these disastrous events. I won't be specific for spoiler reasons, but there are moments where characters and people walk away unscathed from events that should have clearly ended their life, in more than one situation. The instantaneous moments of unrealism through-out the movie make it even harder to enjoy. Before long, the 'zombies', are introduced in the movie by showing them running towards people by the thousands, and biting them to spread the infection. (Note, the zombies in this movie are not your typical slow-moving, brain-craving zombies, these are more like super-zombies that seem to obtain even faster speeds on foot then when they were human). I won't say too much more about the Lane family and what happens to them, for spoiler reasons of course; instead I'll discuss the rest of the movie in general. The storyline to the movie is nothing really unique or original, which is always a disappointment. It's main plot is very basic and easy to follow, and isn't exactly what you would call captivating. Despite the movie's typical apocalyptic traits, the story does have one interesting twist to it, but one that also can't quite make up for the whole of the movie. World War Z focuses a LOT on visuals, and I have to say it does a very good job at it. This film does bring some intensity and pure enjoyment when it shows the occasional hordes of zombies (By horde, I mean like the camera capturing millions of zombies in single scenes) piling on top of each other to reach ridiculous heights, swarming the cities, leaping onto aircraft to bring it down, and so on. This is definitely one of the main aspects of the movie, and undoubtedly entertaining to watch, but unfortunately, I feel like the movie is not much more than the visuals it showcases. As I mentioned earlier, you don't really feel for anyone in the movie, the story leaves much to be desired, and this film just plain overall seems to fall short of it's expectations. Some might even find this film slightly boring, or cheesy even. Which at certain points I admittedly did. In summary: Not a terrible film, but not very good either. Cool visuals and animated zombies, but dull drama and story to it. Features too many typical apocalyptic elements and doesn't retain quite enough uniqueness to it.