This movie is really two different movies in one. First we have Brad Pitt and his family trying to survive, and it's a typical Zombie survival film. Nothing out of the ordinary here, but they manage to make it intense and exciting. The chaos when the outbreak begun has only been this well portrayed in the video game The Last of Us before this movie. But suddenly we have another movie. Brad Pitt gets his family to safety and goes on a quest to find a way to save the world and stop the outbreak. I would have been fine if the whole movie was just Brad Pitt trying to save his family, and I would have been equally fine with it if the whole movie was about Brad Pitt trying to save the World. But what was the point about the first part of the movie with him and his family trying to survive later, when this storyline was dropped for Brad's quest around the World to find the cure? None, it felt like nothing had been achieved.
Brad Pitt isn't spectacular in any way in this. It's clearly visible he only treated this movie as a paycheck and didn't give his all. I don't really blame him for that. The story is okay, but you have to just go with a few weird things, like the fact that zombies don't want to bite people with diseases (why not, a zombie wouldn't care) and that it only takes 12 seconds to turn into a zombie after bitten (why aren't all humans dead), or that Israel has built a huge ass wall to keep the Zombies out (it was so for the Zombies, am I right?).
The 3-D was more unnecessary than ever before. It didn't give anything, and certainly didn't factor into the movie. Wasn't it for those dumb glasses it felt like a 2-D movie to me. If people aren't going to do stuff with the 3-D, have it actually play a role in the movie, why the fuck is it used at all? Why are we paying extra for it? Either 3-D should actually be a part of the experience, or this shit need to die.
The movie isn't bad. It might be worth a watch if you still care about Zombies (I don't). But it's certainly not above a meh.
