By and large, plague disaster concepts are pretty ineffective concepts nowadays. But they aren’t that bad. There’s usually at least something to salvage when the crisis is threatening to reach its peak and survivors are wrestling for antidotes or contamination suites. Best for this in my opinion is the insane Crossed comic run, the Stand by Stephen King (the first chapters only), and also fun fact: the Ring, yes the Japanese movie is based on smallpox.
This copycat crap is simply awful and so ridiculous. Filled with unnecessary military bravado, pumped up with character nonsense and a cringing cheese script, it’s a real test to get through this from start to finish without rolling your eyes every several minutes and this is no exaggeration. Moreover, the sheer ineptitude of camera ability and direction is frustratingly tedious despite the obvious ambitions to classics like Predator, Aliens, plus any random virus flick or outer limits action flick.
From the beginning though it doesn’t seem so bad. Hell, it seems almost better than average. With mid-life crisis man Dean, super strong bitch Mandy, fat coward guy and the funny pilot, the mainly introduced cast appear to be a strangely formidable fusion at first. The pilot is by far the most watchable and powerful character, especially when he expresses loud confusion and anxiety when facing confusing types of clouds while flying a plane in the air full of passengers.
This brief detour into comedy and stability is very fleeting. The rest of the trip is a brainless, budgetless and uninspired tale of survival. Though starting at a relatively entertaining speed, there’s a serious lack of plot development or progression. Midlife crisis man is appallingly casted in their role as a lead, lacking in energy, ability or soul, staged like a male bimbo and appearing as robotic as a DOS command.
The crass editing displays an inexperienced and amateur attempt, especially with the heavy rock song which is pertually out of tune. At least the filmers are generally available to using tripods. Yet the lack of design or ambition to the construction of each scene is pretty pathetic. Most of it all seems rushed and disorientated with little leaving anything tasteworthy.
Probably the most disappoitning thing this dumbass film missed out on was a surprisingly worthwhile potential of characters, yet it’s not the worst crime, which is being a pile of shit. And although its aims are appreciable, the result is a dire wander into incompetence, ignorance, incapability which nobody needs to suffer from ever again. Avoid – like the plague.
2/10
Possession Media 