212. World War Z

Title: World War Z
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror
Year: 2013

Summary: Former United Nations employee Gerry Lane and his family sit in heavy traffic in Philadelphia while the radio reports on a rabies outbreak that has spread internationally. They are attacked by masses of zombies, and those bitten become zombies as well. The Lanes narrowly escape and flee to an apartment complex to be extracted by a helicopter sent by Gerry's former UN colleague, Thierry.

The family reaches the helicopter and are taken to a U.S. Navy vessel off the coast of New York City, where a team of analysts and military personnel are analyzing the scope of the worldwide outbreak. A virologist, Dr. Fassbach, argues that the plague is a virus, whose origin must be found in order for a vaccine to be developed. The naval commander tells Gerry that, because of his expertise as a former UN investigator, he is to investigate the virus and help Fassbach find the outbreak's source. Reluctantly agreeing for the sake of his family's staying on the ship, Gerry leaves on a plane for Camp Humphreys, a military base in South Korea where the word "zombie" was supposedly first used in reference to the outbreak.

Arriving at the base, they are attacked and Fassbach accidentally discharges his weapon, killing himself. At the base, Gerry learns from the survivors that the zombies are attracted to noise. The commander also informs Gerry of a local who was found foaming at the mouth that bit a doctor and shows him to a room of incinerated bodies, where they, the soldiers, first saw the outbreak. A former CIA operative, imprisoned for treason, tells Gerry to go to Jerusalem, where leader of Israel's intelligence service Mossad, Jurgen Warmbrunn, has established a safe zone just before the outbreak was officially acknowledged, implying Israel might have had prior knowledge.

Heading to Jerusalem, Gerry meets Warmbrunn, who explained that Mossad had months earlier intercepted communications from an army general in India, which stated that Indian troops were fighting the "undead". With this knowledge and using a program implemented to prevent Israel being caught off guard, as in past conflicts, a quarantine is established, and they are letting uninfected civilians in. Due to loud noises coming from within the zone, however, thousands of infected and rabid zombies on the other side of the wall begin piling onto each other and climb over. Chaos erupts, and Gerry's escort soldier, Segen, is bitten. Gerry immediately amputates her hand to prevent her from turning into one of them, and they escape on a plane from Jerusalem.

Contacting Thierry, they are diverted to Cardiff, Wales to a WHO research facility to assist in finding a cure. On the plane, a stowaway zombie attacks, resulting in Gerry throwing a grenade at the back of the plane. The explosion depressurizes the cabin causing everyone to be sucked out. The plane crashes with Segen and an injured Gerry as the only apparent survivors. The duo arrive at the facility, where Gerry deduces that the infected do not bite people who are terminally ill and, therefore, unsuitable as hosts for viral reproduction. He volunteers to test a terminal but curable pathogen on himself to see if his idea works. But the wing that the pathogens are stored is filled with zombies, after one of the doctors accidentally infected himself and his colleagues. Gerry makes it into the vault with the pathogens and injects himself with one. He is able to return to the main lab due to the pathogen "camouflaging" him from the zombies. The doctors rejoice at the discovery and treat him immediately after his safe return.

Gerry returns to his family in a safe zone at Freeport, Nova Scotia. A "vaccine" derived from deadly pathogens is developed that would act as camouflage for the troops battling the infected, and for fleeing civilians. The footage then shows offensives beginning. Humanity now has hope, and Gerry ends the film by saying that "This isn't the end; not even close."