What scene was this from, again?
Here's my synopsis (and running commentary on plot holes). Since we're currently living through a world-wide pandemic that spreads through respiration and makes people incredibly contagious even when they aren't having symptoms, it's a bit surreal to compare the movie with my experience in the US during COVID-19. (Be prepared for some extra snark related to how people in the move handle their very contagious virus versus the US's response to the coronavirus.)
The movie starts with music that's got a hint of foreboding to it. We see animals, hear radio jockeys, watch TV personalities. The mundane versus the serious: threat of a strange virus and global warming juxtaposed with a plastic woman commenting on another plastic woman's cute socks. Animals attacking... killing... like they are signs of something else coming.
One aspect of zombies that was pretty ingenious.
When they plow over things like a tidal wave, it's scary.
When they plow over things like a tidal wave, it's scary.
An ordinary suburban neighborhood and a nice normal family: Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt), his wife, Karin (Mireille Enos), and their 2 daughters: Rachel and Connie. (I guess this is so us normal people can put ourselves in their shoes. After all, they were just living their lives when the worst happened. If it happened to them, it could happen to us!) Their TV mentions martial law and there's a hint that Gerry used to go dangerous places. (So maybe not like us normal people.)
The family ends up stuck in a huge traffic jam. Gerry starts to get suspicious. A motorcycle cop surges by on his bike, breaking off Gerry's left-side rear-view mirror, and doesn't stop. (Police are supposed to stop when there's an accident!) The radio talks about a rabies outbreak in 12 countries that is transmitted through a bite and recommends people stay away from densely-populated areas. (So, not a normal rabies outbreak. Why would densely-populated places be overrun by rabid animals? Those places don't normally have foliage and wild animals -- even rabid ones -- don't normally wander around places with a lot of humans in them and not a lot of places to hide.)
An explosion in the distance. A cop yells at people to get into their cars. Then the crazy action starts. A garbage truck *appears out of nowhere*, plows through a bunch of cars and keeps going at terrific speed. (The Law of Inertia does not apply.) Gerry uses that opportunity to get out of the traffic jam by following the truck (even though the truck is headed *toward* the explosion).
Somehow the truck is able to plow through the cars like they're butter. (They must not weigh very much or have that heavy motor like normal cars.) A quick shot of the cab reveals the driver being attacked by someone. The truck overturns, Gerry drives through a *crowd of people* and then an ambulance rams the car. It's a mad, panicked crowd.
Mass confusion, even though the military is there - how did Gerry spot the RV? And why didn't anyone else take it?
A guy decides to leave his RV (with the keys in it - really?) and Gerry watches him walk toward the place everyone is running from. Growling people jump on other people. Gerry watches the guy be attacked and bitten. His daughter's doll (conveniently) starts counting the seconds: 12 seconds to turn someone into the infected. Gerry and his family use the RV to escape.
A military helicopter shows us Liberty Place and Philadelphia on fire. A man on the radio reports that containment is a fail.
Rachel has an asthma attack so they need to find a pharmacy. (As someone who has had asthma attacks, I don't know where Movieland gets the idea that slowing your breathing will stop an asthma attack and so quickly. Just a little slow, deep breathing will relax those bronchial tubes apparently. Because an asthma attack is just like hyperventilation. It doesn't require going to the ER to get a shot to stop it.) Gerry's friend and old co-worker at the UN, Thierry Umuntoni (Fana Mokoena), calls to tell Gerry that he needs him back and is sending a helicopter for them.
The supermarket is a madhouse, with everyone scrambling for food. A pharmacy tech (who has a gun and is guarding the drugs instead of going home to his family) has a kid with asthma and gives Gerry the right medicine.
Chaos in the supermarket. Which sells motor oil for some reason.
Two guys think that it's the perfect time to rape Karin (because who doesn't attack random women with children in the middle of a chaotic grocery store?) Gerry is forced to shoot one of them to save her. A moment of tension as a cop hurries in... only to jog by Gerry and start loading up on supplies. (Oooo, that means something really bad is going down, if the police are abandoning their duty to protect and serve.) When the fam runs outside, the RV is gone (shocker, since they parked it out front and left it unlocked). They head for some nearby apartments.
Gerry calls Thierry with their location (for that approaching helicopter - normal flight time from DC to New York is 2 hours but it'll be there in 20 minutes). The infected have reached Newark and ignore a bum in an alleyway to chase Gerry and the family. The fam is able to take shelter with a Spanish-speaking family, courtesy of younger Connie standing outside of their door, yelling to be let in. Only the son, Tomas, can speak English, so we get some Spanish. The family shares supplies with Gerry and fam (because when disaster strikes, that's what good people do. Band together.) The radio's emergency alert advises people to stay inside with 1-2 weeks of supplies because "an unidentified virus strain is rapidly spreading across the state of New Jersey." (Script does not include Tomas translating this new warning to his parents but does include the idea that a highly contagious virus can be avoided by sheltering in place and avoiding random strangers.)
Quick jump to Gerry starting awake to a clang in the hall. (Of course, he heard it through the thick brick wall. Of course, it's the zombies. Because nothing else would make a loud noise in the middle of the night in an apartment building.) He tries to persuade their hosts to come with them: "people who moved survived... movement is life." Señor Dad doesn't agree. Before they leave, Gerry uses duct tape to make a bayonet out of his gun. He also wraps magazines around his left arm.
It's time to meet the helicopter. Creepy noises and shrieks. Flickering lights make things extra spooky (at least the movie's not 'predictable').
Why would the emergency lighting be this color red? All the more to make us think of blood and death?
Something tries to bust through the Spanish family's door. (The dead bolt holds, but will it hold indefinitely, given the amount of give that first collision with the door makes. And why would the zombies target an apartment where people are making no noise?)
Connie is scared, so they have to delay getting to the roof to comfort her (totally appropriate time to pander to her emotions and reason with her, instead of ordering her to move and worrying about the emotions later). The infected magically locate them (because the fam are being quiet) and stream into the stairwell. The family reaches the roof and Gerry struggles with a one of the infected. Tommy (aka Tomas) is now running up the stairs. (Nothing like helpless kids to make you less anxious. How he got away after the infected busted into his family's apartment, I don't know, considering how many infected have been streaming into the stairwell.) It's lucky, though, that he escaped the apartment because he kills the infected that Gerry was losing his fight with. The infected's blood drips into Gerry's mouth when it's acting like a rabid dog, growling, lunging, trying to bite and mercilessly trying to pry the gun away using its teeth.
Gerry runs out onto the roof and stands on the ledge. He's counting. After he reaches 12, he knows he won't turn. (So why is it only transmitted through a bite and not by the infected person breathing on him or through its blood? Normally things that are transmitted by bite are transmitted with bodily fluids. Even if the infected didn't need to breathe (respiration), wouldn't there be water particles in the flush of air streaming out of its lungs as it screamed at Gerry in frustration and hunger?)
Helicopter arrives and Gerry has to hold the door to the roof shut, with Tommy's dad now infected (!) and chewing that magazine like there's no tomorrow (how *did* Tomas get away?) A soldier's machine gun comes in handy in helping them escape and several infected lunge at the helicopter as it leaves (the frenzy of virus ignores the danger of being crushed by impact with the ground after a certain height. Typical zombies).
The helicopter takes them to the UN Command Ship, a carrier named the USS Argus.
(It's interesting that it's a *UN* ship that's named the *USS* Argus. Is that supposed to mean world cooperation? Even though basically everyone there is from the US and typically the US portrays the UN as a milquetoast organization full of busybodies?)
Thierry shows the family to their bunks to emphasize how crowded and desperate things are.
And how little pull he has as Under-Secretary.
And how little pull he has as Under-Secretary.
Thierry greets them and the helicopter leaves (presumably) to pick up more people. They are assigned three bunks and Karin jokes that it's bigger than their old apartment. When Gerry starts to talk about the situation with Thierry, Karin tells them to go someplace else (because of the children!).
Thierry tells Gerry that the President is dead (along with most of the cabinet) and it's the big cities that are the worst off (makes sense since it only takes 12 seconds to infect someone and the infected seem to be super-humanly fast and strong. But not as strong as Gerry, though...). They head to the command center, where people are trying to get a handle on things. A think tank of doctors are debating what the infection might be. A cocky young man (Thierry exposits that he's Dr. Fassbach, expert virologist from Harvard, the "best bet for figuring out what this thing is") declares that it's a virus, like the Spanish Flu of 1918 which killed 3% of the world's population.
(How ironic that it references the worldwide, lethal pandemic that I keep thinking about as people debate wearing masks and social distancing. Also ironic: the people in charge are *listening* to scientific experts, rather than 'experts' who think that doctors are using alien DNA to treat illnesses and that masks spread a virus rather than protect from it.)
Someone mentions zombies and the rest groan and say that he's crazy.
More exposition: Thierry tells Gerry that the first mention of zombies was from Camp Humphreys in South Korea. The ship's CO arrives and wants Gerry to go in to South Korea with a team. Exposition (roll call) of Gerry's qualifications: Liberian Civil War, investigating Chechen war crimes, Sri Lanka in 2007. Gerry balks and the CO explains that everyone on his ship is *essential.* Non-essentials are kicked off. (Of course, the military guy wouldn't care about individuals, just the big picture and saving the human race! Which is made up of individuals. And even though most of the 'essentials' are men and the 'non-essentials' are women and children.) To protect his family, Gerry agrees. Guilt trip from Karin and the kids (Tomas is now Tommy and part of the family because that's what good people do in a world-ending crisis: adopt any orphaned children they come across, after changing their name to something anglicized).
The death on the tarmac is... comic relief? Did anyone really believe that it was going to be Fassbach who found the cure?
On the plane, Gerry preps Dr. Fassbach for their landing in South Korea (the movie exposited that he is a genius and world authority on viruses) and the doctor seems just a bit too confident, like he's invincible. Gerry tells Fassbach that they're going to find something and Fassbach smiles confidently:
Yeah, we're gonna find something. Mother Nature is a serial killer. No one's better. More creative. But like all serial killers, she can't help the urge to want to get caught. What good are all those brilliant crimes if no one takes the credit? So she leaves crumbs. Now, the hard part, why you spend a decade in school, is seeing the crumbs for the clues they are. Sometimes the thing you thought was the most brutal aspect of the virus, turns out to be the chink in its armor. And she loves disguising her weaknesses as strengths. She's a bitch.
He practically giggles with giddiness. (Not that there's a potentially human-life-ending illness ravaging the world happening at the moment. Trying to figure out the serial killer's armor's chink is fun!)
Back on the ship, civilians deemed non-essential are being relocated off the ship. Karin and the oldest daughter look on, worried.
They arrive at Camp Humphreys. Despite Gerry's warning on how to hold a gun, Dr. Fassbach promptly slips and shoots himself in the head. (No more stable genius from Harvard.) Troops from the base arrive to help them to safety. As they run, they just leave the plane's hatch wide open. (Because the infected won't wander inside a big open space and then hide like they were doing just a few minutes ago.) Safely inside the base, Gerry learns that:
- Sound draws the infected (Zekes)
- Body shots only slow Zekes down
- Head shots do the trick
- So will fire
- A soldier with a tweaked leg survived being in a room overrun with Zekes
- Unlike the virus in the US (because Fassbach was *sure* that it was a virus and so it is), it takes 5-10 minutes to turn someone into a Zeke, rather than 12 seconds.
I think this was taken before CIA pulled out his own tooth without any
pain killers and just using his fingers. I said he was crazy.
pain killers and just using his fingers. I said he was crazy.
There's a crazy CIA agent in custody for selling guns to N Korea. (Keeping non-violent offenders prisoner is so important in the middle of a pandemic. Have to have law and order.) He seems to know something about the virus. (Does that mean the deep state is responsible for the virus? Was it manufactured in a lab and then unleashed?!) He claims that the N Koreans are surviving because everyone pulled out all their teeth, so no one could be bitten and thus infected. (Again, why is this a magical virus that doesn't act like any other virus ever? Why do you need teeth to transmit the virus?) CIA wonders why you have to burn the infected to ashes to get them to stop. Why do they move like a plague? Why Israel is winning? (Apparently Israel sealed off their country days before the infected started attacking.) He tells Gerry that he should see Jurgen Warmbrunn in Jerusalem for answers. (Wasn't he helpful?)
Gerry and 2 other men ride squeaky bicycles to get back to the plane (which they will have to refuel, which could create noise and draw out the Zekes. Not that the squeaky bikes would attract Zekes. It's a military base. They have to have motor oil and WD40 - so why the squeakiness?). Karin tries calling which alerts all the Zekes. (Gerry forgot to turn off his ringer, even though silence is essential to staying safe. I can remember to turn my ringer off going into a business meeting but a guy who survived Liberia and Chechnya can't remember the thing that is going to keep the Zekes from ignoring him.) When Gerry gets tackled by one of the infected, the Base Commander saves him and is bitten. (In true hero style, BC bravely kills himself to protect his men and to keep them from having to bear the guilt of doing it.) The sole remaining Ranger with Gerry sacrifices himself to detach the fuel line. (Why can't they just fly away with it still in the plane? Might cause a fire? Kill Zekes? So that the Ranger can heroically sacrifice for a meaningless death?) They don't close the plane's hatch (of course) so the Zekes rush the plane. Luckily, the cockpit has a door that locks and they bank the plane so that the Zekes fall out during take off.
Gerry reaches Jerusalem and the pilot stays with the plane. Helicopters patrol above the city, watching for breaches in Jerusalem's wall. (Loud machines in a situation where noise attracts the infected.) Jurgen knows Gerry by reputation so he's happy to talk. (Of course he is. My, Gerry really is lucky, isn't he?) Jurgen explains how Israel adopted the policy of the Tenth Man, so they can be prepared for the next Holocaust or Yom Kippur War. Even if the other 9 men come to the same conclusion, the 10th man is obligated to disagree. Jurgen says that Israel had intercepted an Indian communique where they were fighting the undead, and as the 10th Man, he had to assume that that is what they meant, instead of it being a cover for something else.
Jurgen shows Gerry the Jerusalem Salvation Gates. They're letting people in because every human being they save is one less zombie to fight. (It's very orderly. I wonder how they're clearing infected away from the people so they can enter Jerusalem.) Helicopters fly beyond the walls to show us how the Zekes are clamoring around outside the walls. Someone gets the bright idea of starting to sing loudly (because celebrating when there's a lethal mass of undead who are attracted to sound right outside the wall is a smart idea. Of course, the soldiers and the wall will protect you.) They add a microphone into the mix. Its screeching especially gets the Zekes' attention (because some were ignoring the noise of the helicopters) and they start swarming the walls.
Another time when the zombies are really creepy. Like a surge of ants they showed
at the beginning of the movie. How is the copter *not* reporting the surge? asking
for reinforcements? warning the people inside? Trying to shoot the zombies?
at the beginning of the movie. How is the copter *not* reporting the surge? asking
for reinforcements? warning the people inside? Trying to shoot the zombies?
(Why wouldn't one of the soldiers in the helicopters notice that the Zekes are getting worked up and say something? Why wouldn't they zoom over to the spot where the Zekes are surging up the wall and shoot all the infected to stop them? Why would they fly low enough to get jumped on? How in the world are the Zekes *coordinated enough* to climb on each other with the goal of getting over the wall. It's not like they're ants. They're mindless frenzied people. )
Right as the first Zeke reaches the top of the ridiculously tall wall (how does it stay upright when it's that thin and likely isn't reinforced with metal?), Gerry suddenly realizes that the noise is too loud. The Zekes start streaming over the wall. The fall doesn't kill them; they break bones so they begin crawling toward living people. (Soldiers? Headshots, anyone?) Finally a helicopter starts to shoot at the Zekes who are scaling the wall. Jurgen hands Gerry off to a military escort and drives away. (Just drives off. And, without any orders or explanationof who Gerry is and what he's doing, the escort knows they are to keep Gerry safe and get him back to his plane. And because it's Israel, at least half of the escort are female.)
Gerry looks behind him. Zekes are now all over the place, biting people. Highlight an old man being ignored, like he's not there. Chaos and a flood of the infected. Gerry sees a swarm of Zekes rush by a beggar-boy like he's not even there. One of the escort isn't smart enough to stay out of hand's reach when walking by a fence. He blows himself up to protect the others - which creates an opening in said fence. The soldiers succeed in stopping the Zekes with hand grenades, but one of them is bitten. Gerry quickly grabs a machete and slices the woman's arm off. (Because cutting through bone is really easy and the machete just happened to be handy.) Gerry counts and realizes that she's not going to turn. The helicopter coming for them get swarmed by Zekes and crashes, exploding spectacularly. (Really? You have a gun mounted to the helicopter which shoots projectiles with great force and you can't prevent people from jumping on it? You can't use the velocity of the huge bullets to hurl away the body that just leapt at you?)
The pilot who brought Gerry to Jerusalem hears that the chopper crashed so he gets out of Dodge. (Cue Gerry watching it fly off.) Gerry and his entourage flag down a plane from Belarus. They stop because of the soldiers machine guns. (Not that they could run over them with the huge tires.) Only Gerry and the one-armed soldier get on board. (Don't know why the other soldiers don't join them.) The Zekes start swarming the runway but the plane is able to take off.
Don't know why zombies swarming a plane would be particularly threatening. Just take off
and they'll lose their grip. Plus, the windows and doors are much thicker/stronger than
those in a car. They probably could keep the jet on the ground and still be safe.
and they'll lose their grip. Plus, the windows and doors are much thicker/stronger than
those in a car. They probably could keep the jet on the ground and still be safe.
Everyone breathes a sigh of relief and Jerusalem starts to have explosions. A small Pomeranian wandering loose barks at Gerry. Gerry gives the soldier, named Segen, vodka to kill the pain while he changes her bandage. (Of course it isn't bloody nor does it really bleed when it's removed.) When she mutters that she's now just a liability, Gerry puts the crumbs together: the Zekes don't go after the diseased, only the healthy. He pulls out his Sat phone to tell Thierry what he's figured out. New destination: WHO facility in Cardiff, Wales.
As the captain gives the standard 'we're approaching our final destination' speech, the yappy little Pomeranian starts barking at the plane's service elevator. The flight attendant pays no attention, opens the service elevator and is promptly jumped by the Zeke inside it. (How did the Zeke think to climb into a small, small space? Why would it be open for it to climbinto?) Gerry's Spidey-sense goes off -- plus the screaming of the other passengers -- and he realizes that the cheap seats are overrun. They try to pile suitcases as a barricade but a bag falls and draws the Zekes' attention. Pandemonium. Segen keeps her cool, shooting the Zekes near them (luckily it wasn't her shooting hand that she lost). Gerry grabs a hand grenade from Segen's vest and throws it so that it blows out the side of the plane. All the Zekes are sucked out of the plane, but the loss of pressure causes the plan to crash. (Not something that normally happens.)
The crash kills the pilots. (Everyone else had apparently become Zekes and were sucked out of the plane.) Gerry and Segen hobble to the WHO facility and ring the bell.
Back on the USS Argus, the CO hears that the Cardiff airport lost touch with Gerry's plane, so he decides to kick Karin and the kids off the ship. Thierry tries to stop it, but stops protesting when it's his life on the line. (Why exactly does Thierry get to stay? How does losing touch with Gerry's plane = Gerry is lost? And why are they continuing to punt people off the ship? It's not like there's a great influx of people continuing to come in.)
Gerry wakes up. He's been tied down and stitched up. He gets interrogated by the 12th Doctor, who asks why Gerry's there, but Gerry knows the other guy is in charge. (If they're at a WHO facility and have vast experience with Zekes, why have they got Gerry tied up? Especially since Segen is there to explain that Gerry hasn't been bitten and carries the fate of the world in his hands?) The 12th Doctor and the Man in Charge call Karin's Sat phone. Thierry answers. (Why didn't she get to keep the phone?) This is how Gerry learns that his family has been sent to a refugee camp in Nova Scotia.
Speaking to Thierry gives Gerry the credentials to be untied and treated as a peer. (I guess since it's a WHO facility and Thierry is the Under-Secretary, that makes him believable over an Israeli soldier who recently survived a plane crash and getting her hand cut off.) Gerry asks them for a pathogen with a high mortality rate but is curable. They tell him that it's useless - they've already tried it, but you can't make a dead person sick. Gerry adds that it's not for the Zekes; it's for them. The disease would be their camouflage since the Zekes are like a spreading pathogen that needs a healthy host. (Fingers crossed that it won't kill them first.)
At least finding an axe makes sense.
Of course, there's a problem: everything they need is in the B wing, which has been overrun with the Zekes who used to work there. (A scientist who studied the virus accidentally infected himself and thus the dominoes fell.) As Gerry, Segen and the Man-in-Charge (MIC) head out to get what they need from Vault 139, the 12th Doctor warns Gerry not to kill one of the infected, since it only makes the rest more aggressive. The rest of the WHO docs watch their group's progress on their monitors. (Lucky that they all still work.)
Because this is a zombie situation, there's food strewn all over the commisary. Because, of course. And like the grass outside that prison on The Walking Dead which stayed perfectly mown amidst the zombie apocalypse, this food doesn't stink even though it would be rotting by now.
As the trio steal through B wing, it appears that the Zekes are attracted by sight and sound, rather than smell. Cue the extra creepy Zeke who seems to have extrasensory awareness. Gerry uses his *weapon* to prop a door open. Things happen and Segen is forced to shoot one of them. Even though the shot echoed throughout the building, the Zekes are immediately able to hone in on the trio's location.
Gerry draws the Zekes away so that Segen and MIC are able to run to safety. (Open the door! Open the door! And the Zekes won't be driven to pound through your stacked barricade like they were when they busted through that apartment's *deadbolt*) Gerry is able to find a crowbar to use for a weapon. (Because crowbars are just lying around science facilities. Must be all the tires that they change. Oh, wait.. it's a laboratory, not a garage.). He makes it to the very special cold vault where the very deadly viruses are stored. He can't get in, but the lab phone rings with the alarm code. (Even though it would have made sense to keep his sat phone with him, and get the vault code just in case he gets separated from MIC, we need the ringing phone for added tension, a loud sound that somehow doesn't attract any Zekes.) Gerry decides to leave his weapon outside the vault (because there wouldn't be anywhere to put in on the countertops inside the vault). He grabs random diseases (including some bad ones) and is about to leave when there's a Zeke with chomping teeth at the door. (It's the extra-sensory Zeke who almost caught them before.)
This guy is creepy. Why is he more sensitive than the other infected? And how does he
just stop seeing Gerry, when he doesn't take his eyes off of him the whole time?
just stop seeing Gerry, when he doesn't take his eyes off of him the whole time?
Gerry prepares to inject himself. The WHO docs can't believe it. MIC muses that if Gerry chooses the wrong disease, he's dead anyway. Gerry writes his goodbye note to Karin and injects himself. Luckily, it's not one of the bad ones. The Zeke at the door becomes confused. (Because even though Gerry's in a refrigerated, sealed environment, the pathogen can tell that something is changing with this new potential host. Gerry decides to test his theory and opens the door. The Zeke walks right by him and the watching WHO docs sigh with relief. Gerry grabs himself a Pepsi, makes the soda machine spit out cans, and uses the noise to attract the Zekes. They stream past him like he's not there, even when they run into him. The WHO docs can't believe it. "He just walked right past him!"
The doctors give Gerry supplies of the disease cocktail and Gerry and Segen head for Nova Scotia. Gerry's family (which now includes Tommy) is waiting for him. Narration of people fighting back, the vaccine working and, while the battle isn't over, they now have a chance.
Thoughts:
The original ending of World War Z had Gerry being drafted into the Russian army, battling not only zombies but the stereotypical sadistic military leader, saving the day, Karin being held prisoner and under threat of becoming a sex slave, and no cure being found. The Zekes freeze to death. It closed with Gerry and his minions landing in Oregon, ready to slog across the US to reach Karin and the kids in Florida (no idea if Tomas, er, Tommy was still with them). Why they wouldn't travel through Canada to stick with the cold so that they have a safer shot before they head down Interstate 95, I don't know. Even more depressing and open-ended than the ending that they went with, but thank goodness that they didn't dive deeper into the cliches of dystopian/apocalyptic stories with a 2-dimensional Russian villain.
So much of this movie lives in Movieland rules. A commander of a US naval vessel will just join the UN's task force and let his craft transport them. Pretty much the UN is all Americans. Everyone acknowledges the UN's authority like that. No one questions Gerry's credentials to be investigating the virus. The fate of humanity rests on the shoulders of one man (I'm surprised Tom Cruise didn't opt to star). An underpaid pharmacy tech will guard drugs rather than hurry home to his asthmatic kid, because he has a job to do! Brave soldiers will gladly head into certain death in pursuit of the greater good. And pretty much only white people survive.
It is really strange to consider this movie in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. At least in Movieland, the leaders listen to scientists and are guided by their input. People take the danger seriously, instead of ignoring and pretending that things are normal. Politics isn't a factor in how humanity tackles the crisis and there's no mention of the economy ever. Everyone also speaks English. While the Zeke pandemic is much more aggressive and 'intentional' in its campaign to spread across the globe (and its results are much more deadly), at least in Movieland, I'd feel confident that the US was using sense to guide its decisions rather than being lead by conspiracy theorists who use the Bible as a prop, think there are fine people on both sides, vaccines are poisonous and make things up as they go along.
More on the cruddy science of this 'science' fiction movie:
Everything Wrong with World War Z by Cinema Sins
Everything Wrong with World War Z by Zombie Sins
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