2013 · action · horror · sci-fi
World War Z (2013)
Directed by Marc Forster1h 56m2013
Life for former United Nations investigator Gerry Lane and his family seems content. Suddenly, the world is plagued by a mysterious infection turning whole human populations into rampaging mindless zombies. After barely escaping the chaos, Lane is persuaded to go on a mission to investigate this disease. What follows is a perilous trek around the world where Lane must brave horrific dangers and long odds to find answers before human civilization falls.
Our read: World War Z (2013) (2013) reads as a heavy, breathless, grounded action · horror · sci-fi entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme action / horror, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, epic, measured.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- epic-stakes
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