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Brad Pitt, playing a former United Nations troubleshooter pressed back into service to battle the undead, wears a scruffy, Redfordesque air of pained puzzlement. Its action set pieces are cleverly conceived and coherently executed in ways that make them feel surprising, even exciting. ![]() The movie, loosely adapted from Max Brooks’s 2006 novel of the same title, is under two hours long. Zombie apocalypse? Really? Again? But if you start complaining about the lack of originality in summer movies, honestly, when will you stop? (The answer in my case is Labor Day or cocktail hour.) And in many ways, when compared with “Man of Steel,” “Iron Man 3” and “Star Trek: OMG Ricardo Montalbán!,” “World War Z” is pretty refreshing.
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