In today’s video, we will run through the 2013’s Action Horror, World War Z. Former
United Nations employee Gerry Lane traverses the world in a race against time to stop a
zombie pandemic that is toppling armies and governments and threatens to destroy humanity
itself.
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Former UN agent Gerry Lane and his wife Karin are sleeping when their young daughters Rachel
and Connie jump on the bed to wake them up. It is an everyday happy morning for the Lane
family. They have their breakfast together and leave for the day. On their way, they
are stuck in traffic.
Just then, a police bike passes by, crashing into the car’s wing mirror and breaks it.
Gerry gets out to check the damage. Then there is a massive explosion a few blocks away.
He quickly gets into his car. Huge trucks start to run through the traffic, crashing
into anything that comes in their way. Gerry starts driving forward. The streets are in
havoc, with people running everywhere to save their lives. Rachel in the back seat is scared,
so she sits on the floor.
The parents ask her to put her seat belt back on. But just as Gerry turns around to tell
her that, their car crashes into another. Everything goes silent for a second. Thankfully,
no one is hurt. They get out of the car and start to run. The road is crowded. One person
gets into his car with his family, but a girl attacks them. She bangs her head into the
car and breaks in. The man gets out only to be strangled by the girl. She bites his arm.
He starts to struggle on the ground, and his eyes turn hazy. It is as if the bite has changed
him into a zombie. He starts banging on the car door with his head. Gerry watches this
while running away with his family, trying to save them.
The family gets into a truck nearby and drives away, fighting the zombie that latches onto
the window. The whole street is filled with them.
Gerry drives to the countryside. They find a rifle in the truck. Just then, Rachel gets
an asthma attack. The family has to go to get medicine for her.
Gerry calls his friend from his time in the UN, Thierry Umutoni. Thierry sends a helicopter
for the family’s rescue, but it will only arrive the following day. Then they go to
a grocery store. Rachel and Karin collect food while Gerry and Connie collect medicines
for Connie. When they come out, their truck is gone.
Gerry notices an apartment building nearby. The zombies are everywhere, but the family
manages to get into the building. However, some Zombies follow the family up the stairs.
Gerry shoots some of them with his rifle, but their number keeps on increasing. As the
family is looking for a room, Connie disappears. They find her in a room with a Mexican family.
The family lets them in. The Mexican couple has a son named Tommy. Gerry and the family
stay there for the night. The following day, the rescue helicopter is supposed to be on
top of the building. Gerry tries to convince Tommy’s father to come with them, but he
refuses. So, Gerry and Karin, along with the girls, leave for the terrace. But before they
can reach it, they are chased by Zombies.
The Mexican family is attacked too. Karin and the kids somehow reach the terrace, but
Gerry is stuck with one of the zombies. Tommy shoots it, saving Gerry. His family was abducted,
but he managed to flee. Gerry takes Tommy and rushes to the terrace. The helicopter
sees the family and takes them away.
They land on a ship and are given bunker beds for the time. A team of doctors is trying
to figure out the situation. They assume that the chaos is because of a virus. They are
actively trying to search for the vaccine that might stop its spread. Andrew Fassbach
is the team leader of the doctors. The UN officials want Gerry to join the mission.
If he refuses, his family will be sent back to the city.
Gerry has no choice but to join the mission. He says goodbye to the family and leaves for
South Korea with a team of researchers and soldiers to search for the vaccine. They land
at the military base of Camp Humphreys. However, they get out of the aircraft to see Zombies
have wiped the place out. A few of them attack the team, which scares Andrew. He runs back
to the aircraft but slips and falls. The doctor dies from the impact. A group of soldiers
arrives for the team’s aid. They leave Andrew’s body there and rush to the military base.
Gerry meets a prisoned former CIA agent who informs him about Israel’s precautions.
Even before the virus was acknowledged, Israel had built a safe zone in Jerusalem. That means
someone had intel on the origin of the virus. The man suggests Gerry talk to the Mossad
chief, Jurgen Warmbrunn. Gerry plans to go there to investigate. There he finds out that
the zombies are sensitive to sound. He and a group of soldiers leave for the aircraft.
They cycle there without making noise but are chased by the zombies in the way. Only
one pilot and Gerry survive. They fly to Israel. On the way, Gerry calls Karin and tells her
he is okay.
Finally, they land in Jerusalem, Israel. Gerry orders the pilot to stay with the plane and
wait for his return. He then meets Jurgen Warmbrunn. Jurgen informs Gerry that they
had intercepted communication from an Indian general who said he was fighting a zombie.
This alerted the officials who built a safe zone in response.
Because of the communication, Israel is safe from the zombie attack. Jurgen then drives
Gerry to show him one of the safe zones they have built. The walls are many stories high,
so the zombies from outside cannot come in. People sing and dance, celebrating their safety,
but they are too loud. This agitates the zombies on the other side. They climb on top of each
other, creating a mountain of zombies, and almost reach the top of the wall.
Gerry and Jurgen are with the crowd when Gerry notices the zombies on top of the wall. But
it is too late. They have already started jumping down to this side. They attack several
people from the crowd. The place is in chaos - Jurgen orders two of his soldiers to take
Gerry to his airplane.
As they run, more and more people turn into zombies. The Israeli soldiers try to stop
them from climbing up the wall by open firing, but there are too many of them. Gerry notices
two people in the crowd who the zombies do not attack. He doesn’t think much of it
and rushes outside the zone. They almost reach the helicopter when a zombie bites one of
the soldiers protecting Gerry. Gerry cuts her arm off to save her from turning into
a zombie.
They quickly run to the airport, but Gerry’s Pilot friend has already left. They see a
passenger plane about to fly off and get on it instead. Finally, they are in the air and
safe. The soldier’s name is Segen. Gerry looks down through the window to see the city
in havoc. People are running while several explosions take place.
Gerry mends Segan’s arm and bandages it properly. He then calls Kerin and asks to
talk to Thierry. Gerry tells him that he has figured a way to fight the virus, but he cannot
explain it on the phone. His phone is dying as well. Next, he tells him that he needs
to be taken to a WHO lab. Thierry talks to the aircraft pilots and convinces them to
take Gerry to a lab in Cardiff. After a while, Gerry falls asleep on the plane.
The passengers are quiet, but a zombie has gotten into the plane somehow. He attacks
the air hostess and turns her into one of them. The passengers start to run around and
panic. There is no way for them to run away in the craft, so Gerry takes a grenade and
throws it into the crowd of zombies. This kills most of them but also creates a massive
hole in the aircraft. The plane then crashes into the woods. It is brutally destroyed,
but both Gerry and Segan come out alive. They somehow manage to reach the WHO lab in Cardiff.
Gerry falls unconscious outside the building.
After not getting a message from Gerry, the officials assume that he is dead. They send
Karin and the kids away from the ship to make space for other officials’ families. After
three days, Gerry wakes up tied to a bed. His wounds have been treated. Two unknown
people ask him about his intentions. Gerry asks them to call the number on his phone
and ask them for his identification. As they do, they talk to Thierry and find out that
Gerry is indeed a former UN official. Finally, Gerry is brought into their lab. There he
explains to them how he had seen the zombies ignore some people.
He believes that if the people are already sick, the zombies can smell the pathogen in
their bodies and do not attack them. This is because the virus needs a healthy body
to feed off of. To test this, someone has to inject themselves with a pathogen and encounter
a zombie. The doctors suggest some viruses like Meningitis, Scarlet Fever, Rocky mountain
fever, and so on. They have various pathogens to test, but all of them are stored in the
B wing of the building. Zombies heavily infest the B wing.
They watch the zombies walk around through the security cameras. The only pathway that
connects wing A with wing B is an overhead bridge. Gerry, Segan, and one of the doctors
wrap their hands to avoid being bitten. They gather some weapons and leave for wing B.
Without making any noise, they manage to go halfway into the building. The other doctors
are watching them through the cameras from wing A. But just then, the doctor accidentally
bangs his weapon on a trash can. The noise attracts the zombies. Segan shoots one of
them. The group runs back to where they came from. The doctor and Segan somehow get back
to wing A while Gerry distracts the Zombies to another path.
While running away from them, Gerry reaches the lab that contains the pathogens they wanted.
But he requires a passcode to get in. The doctors watching from the security camera
call the lab and provide Gerry the passcode. He finally gets into the lab and closes the
door. He collects all the required pathogens in a box and is about to leave when a zombie
bangs on the door.
The zombie cannot get inside the lab, but now, Gerry cannot leave either. There is only
one way out. He has to test the efficiency of the pathogen on himself. He searches for
an injection. Then, he writes “Tell my family I love them” on paper and shows it to the
camera.
Gerry finally injects himself with the pathogen. He waits for a few minutes for it to come
into effect then opens the door. The zombie walks right past him. The doctors are amazed
to see this. Gerry walks out and distracts the zombies with a noise. Without any trouble,
he goes into wing A. The movie ends as we see Gerry reunite with his family. The origin
of the virus is still unknown, but the vaccine has been spread throughout the world.
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