Not sure how to describe this. Looks like a zombie movie, kinda. But not. I dunno. Keeping an open mind.
http://www.apple.com/trailer....585ac18
The Crazies
Looks like 28 Days Later.
Also, the trailer seemed to imply a large explosion of some sort. Nuke?
Also, the trailer seemed to imply a large explosion of some sort. Nuke?
“Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.” - Dr Thomas Sowell
A remake of the Romero film, this shows what happens when a town's water supply spreads a virus that drives people insane.
It's too bad that the writers of this train wreck drank some of the town's water supply because this could have been a good film. As it stands, it's 101 minutes of plot holes.
And wow are there some plot holes. I cannot stress enough that this is Bad Script Writing 101. Anyone with any sort of knowledge of science, the military, medicine, the television industry, etc. is probably going to be pretty disgusted. Just a little bit of research into anything would have made a world of difference in the film's credibility. When your film makes me think of Ed Wood...that's not good.
In fact, I'm going to do a spoiler post right after this one, so look for that if you're curious.
Anyway, the direction is ok. The pace is super fast right out of the gates, but is erratic from there. Lots of very good shots combined with not great ones. Lighting was piss poor at times.
The acting is decent throughout, so no fault to the actors.
I'm a huge fan of these "the end of society" types of stories, but there's not a lot here to love. I guess it's fine for a $1 rental or when it's on cable.
2 out of 10.
It's too bad that the writers of this train wreck drank some of the town's water supply because this could have been a good film. As it stands, it's 101 minutes of plot holes.
And wow are there some plot holes. I cannot stress enough that this is Bad Script Writing 101. Anyone with any sort of knowledge of science, the military, medicine, the television industry, etc. is probably going to be pretty disgusted. Just a little bit of research into anything would have made a world of difference in the film's credibility. When your film makes me think of Ed Wood...that's not good.
In fact, I'm going to do a spoiler post right after this one, so look for that if you're curious.
Anyway, the direction is ok. The pace is super fast right out of the gates, but is erratic from there. Lots of very good shots combined with not great ones. Lighting was piss poor at times.
The acting is decent throughout, so no fault to the actors.
I'm a huge fan of these "the end of society" types of stories, but there's not a lot here to love. I guess it's fine for a $1 rental or when it's on cable.
2 out of 10.
“Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.” - Dr Thomas Sowell
There was a movie with Ally Sheedy a long time ago where a town's water supply gets poisoned and makes everyone crazy. I didn't realize this was a remake.
It's not a remake of that. It's a remake of this 1973 film.
SPOILER POST - Please do not read this post if you plan on seeing the movie!!!
Off the top of my head, here are problems with the movie:
-The clip of the local news program during the credits is technically impossible. It wouldn't cut from the anchor sitting at the desk to static and images of soldiers and an infected person and then back to the anchor again. The scene was supposed to imply it spreading and things going chaotic, ala every zombie film ever made, but fails because the ignorance destroys immersion.
-Can I officially say that I am sick and fucking tired of the current Hollywood trend of people surviving nuclear explosions? First Ben Affleck did it, then Indiana Jones, and now the main protagonists here. The only difference is that they weren't in a fridge like the first two. They did it with distance, which makes me wonder where the military's quarantine zone was set up.
-Speaking of the military...wow. Their actions here make the military in the "28 ___ Later" films seem authentic and that's not good. I'll list them out here in other points, but keep in mind that during the film we're told the virus has gone airborne and that it has a 48 hour incubation period where "you either have it or you don't."
-So the whole infection is caused by a military plane crashing into a nearby body of water that feeds the town. However, nobody heard the crash, saw it, and nobody ever came to recover the plane, etc. Keep in mind that it's contents caused the military to drop a nuke on American soil, but wasn't important enough to clean up the crash site...
-Speaking of the nuke, shouldn't the military have simply dropped the nuke immediately instead of waiting until the end of the film? If this stuff is so contagious and they're worried about it spreading throughout the country, why not just drop the nuke the minute the plane drops?
-The plot device was a biological weapon that was so deadly the military was sending it elsewhere to be destroyed. Really? Because they wouldn't have that capability where they made it? On top of that, has anyone in Hollywood heard of safeguards? A nuke doesn't explode if the plane carrying it explodes. Same thing for biological weapons. They're sealed to prevent accidental spilling. Oh, and the plane that crashed? All in one piece in the water. No structural damage evident so it couldn't have hit that hard.
-So now that the chemical is in the town's water supply, and nobody in the government cares (except the spy satellite that is used 2-3 times to tell us the government is going to "initiate containment procedures", the first people affected are those closest to where the water flows through town. I won't go into that stupidity. Let's focus instead on who it affects first...adult males. adult females and children seem unaffected at first. Uhm...no. If it was specifically targeting something about men, than maybe, but this hit everyone, so no. Women and children would be affected by such a thing first, end of story. Granted, they could be drinking bottled water or immune, but such things were never explained and considering how badly this is written, I'm going to say this angle was never thought of or talked about.
-It drives people insane enough to act completely irrationally and to kill each other, including loved ones, but two infected seek out revenge. This is utter horseshit. Not only because revenge shows a sign of intelligence, but the way in which they seek it out requires planning. And why do many of the infected kill one another, and others work together? No rhyme nor reason. I guess we just have to accept that it makes people crazy and crazy people do anything...
-Throughout the movie, the infected literally turn overnight. The two I spoke of earlier were just fine the day before they staged their trap and assault. However, someone infected that we follow through the movie never actually turns throughout the 3 days the film covers. Again..."in 48 hours you're either infected or not". How about following your own fucking rules?
-The military takes everyone in town into a quarantine area and separate them by body temperature. Normal people get taken to a remote bus stop where they're loaded onto buses to leave town. Infected and possible infected are treated more randomly. Some are strapped to gurneys in the high school, and for some reason they let others wander in a fenced in area that has no defenses. Zero logic and zero understanding of the military and quarantine procedures.
-Speaking of quarantine, the main character easily slips out of the "normal" area AND easily walks out of the town quarantine zone. He's not only challenged, he literally never sees anyone. On top of that, later in the film he simply drives out with no resistance. WTF?
-After the quarantine zone at the school breaks down the military sends squads in wearing normal gear and gas masks to apparently kill and burn citizens. Again...48 hour incubation AND the airborne factors make this complete and utter horseshit. Why send in troops? Nuke the fucking city!
-There's an FBI guy driving around the city without a mask...because apparently vehicles are airtight now...taking pictures of the sheriff, and literally, just randomly driving around. Not a team, just one guy in a highly hostile, contaminated quarantine zone...
-When the nuke goes off one of the protagonists is looking right at it, but doesn't go blind.
END SPOILERS
There's a lot more I could go on about, but you get the point. Whoever wrote this turd knows dick about anything and simply wrote a story based on their assumptions about how real life works. They were apparently far too stupid and/or lazy to do any research whatsoever.
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“Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.” - Dr Thomas Sowell