The zombies appear to have behavior heavily based on that of animals, hence the opening credits of the film which shows various animal species and their habits. In startling contrast to the novel, the zombies in the film adaptation of World War Z are depicted as the "fast" type of zombies, capable of running towards their would-be victims with ferocity.
Damage to the body will do very little to slow them down and damage to the brain is typically the surefire method of killing them. While slow, they are extremely dangerous in large groups and can easily overwhelm survivors or corner them. The zombies from the books adhere to the traditional "slow" zombies. They are slow-moving creatures that seem to possess a mysterious sixth sense and stop at nothing to spread the disease via biting and/or scratching living humans. But the real panic spreads in the cinema auditorium as we realise we've got two hours of dodgy acting and dull CGI work ahead, culminating in massed snoring in that Welsh lab.The zombies in Max Brooks' book " The Zombie Survival Guide" and the follow-up novel " World War Z" are people who have been infected with the Solanum virus. There's some energy to the opening sequence, in Philadelphia when the chaos first sets in. Is it Pitt carrying the virus? Is he some sort of zombie Typhoid Mary? OMG, thinks every single member of the audience. So Pitt travels all over the world, via aeroplane, seeing nothing but an upsurge in zombie-related horror. The virus is spreading via aeroplanes, of course. Pitt blandly plays a handsome "UN investigator" who is dramatically called in when a mysterious human rabies whooshes all over the world, turning everyone into crazed, violent zombies. If Roland Emmerich and Irwin Allen had a love child, it might look like this film. The source is Max Brooks's cult satirical novel World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, but once Hollywood gets its rabid fangs into a complex book, it often turns it into a shambling, snarling parody of itself. He's the producer-star of this bloated and boring zombie action thriller that's been in production for so long I think I remember first hearing about it in the playground at primary school. Brad Pitt gives us his own climax in a chemical laboratory just outside Cardiff. Alfred Hitchcock gave us mind-blowing finales at Mount Rushmore and the Statue of Liberty.
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