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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bagpuss" data-source="post: 6151576" data-attributes="member: 3987">Just seen, I liked it a lot. I've read the book, and I think it owes more to the book than people are giving it credit for.The book was a different take on the zombie mythos. It was clear from the start of the book that humanity won the war, at a great cost, but they won. Previous zombie genre films and books tended to assume humanity loses, and concentrate on how the characters react in such a hopeless situation. The book was about how humanity survived, it is hopeful in it's outlook, and in human resourcefulness.This isn't a horror film like other zombie movies this is an action movie, so it doesn't need or warrant the gore some think is missing. It doesn't need the claustrophobic environment with people turning on each other, that is traditional to the genre, it's about people helping each other.You get the global scale through Brad Pitt's globe trotting, and get to see and hear how nations and various people have reacted to the plague. In a normal zombie horror film it is normally very localised, and it only hints that the rest of the world things are also going to <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />.As an action, race against time, type movie it works well, it is a new take on the zombie genre and I think breathes a bit of life into it.One failing I think it does have is in the pacing of the third act, which is much slower and more claustrophobic than the first two acts, which were almost at break neck speed from the get go.</blockquote>

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