World War Z - plot holes, spoilers

[NikiBabe]

I've watched this again recently and found it enjoyable, I like a good zombie film.

It got me thinking though, so many blatant plot holes, ones that hinged on the entire denouement too.

So Pitt's role, Gerry Lane, pieces together that the zombies need healthy hosts or they ignore them. He notes this first from a soldier in South Korea with an injured leg, an elderly man & young man apparently with cancer that the zombies just avoid.

But then in the finale, when they are trying to prove the theory by obtaining a pathogen to infect a human with to see if the zombies ignore, Gerry and Segen are still very much targets for the zombies who go after them like anyone else.

However, Gerry had recently been in a plane crash and had a metal fragment spear him right through the side and he was still very much in pain with it during the finale. Segen had had her hand amputated to avoid the infection turning her into a zombie and again was still in pain with it. Yet they were still targets for the zombies despite having severe injuries when the zombies previously ignored a soldier with a limp and didn't attack him.

How did they not notice such gaping holes in the plot. Surely a more logical way to do it would be for the zombies to ignore both of them in the lab anyway proving the theory. Just seems so stupid.

Didn't the zombies avoid cancerous or terminally ill people rather than just injured ones?

It's a pile of embarrassing crap. And I was so looking forward to how they'd do it as the book was a stroke of blinding genius.

Yes cushioncovers. They avoided anyone with a weakness.

That included a soldier with a leg injury, an elderly man, an apparent cancer sufferer.

Yet, Brad Pitts character who had a penetrating wound with a large metal fragment stuck right through his body (that he was still in severe pain with) and Segen with a recent amputated hand were still targets.

I think the alternate ending would have been better.

Yup loved the book, thought the film was arse.

I hated that people turned to zombies straight after being bitten, unlike in the book where it takes a while. How did the man get inside the plane toilet before turning?

It could have been so awesome sigh instead we got Brad Pitt In An Adventure With Zombies.

The man wasnt in the plane toilet. He came up in a lift from the hold. Must have been hiding there.

The mum was also so useless and totally ineffectual. Even with her eldest daughter. When the zombie outbreak first happens when they're in the car, the eldest girl is scared, takes her seatbelt off and sits on the floor of the car to hide.

Mum in the passenger seat says to Brad who's driving to help her. So he talks to her, tells her to get up and put her belt on and because he isnt watching the road, crashes the car. She did things like that a few times and I thought ffs woman deal with your children. Alwsys have to be the helpless damsel.

It wasn't just a weakness. They ignored anyone with a cancerous growth or necrosis or a terminal illness, not a fresh wound where the body is still healthy other than the recent wound. That's how I saw it anyway.

How do you explain the soldier at the beginning in south Korea?

He had a limp / leg injury. The zombies ignored him.

Good excuse to watch it again.

Indeed. It was the leg injury bit that threw me. It was the only bit that didnt fit with the theory.

He said his leg had been bothering him for a while but even so it was just a limp in anotherwise healthy soldier.

I saw it that the solider has cancer of some sort as there's no wound but his leg has been troubling him for some time. A friend of a friend lost her son to cancer which started with an aching leg and then a lump and then it spread.

His leg was infected wasn't it? That's why it had been going on for so long.