A lot of people are giving this movie bad reviews, and I don't think it deserves them. It's better than most horror movies I've seen lately. It's a gore-fest, like the original and it's sequel, but lacks the ridiculousness of the second. There are a few things I could have done without-at one point a guard is going to shoot one of the guys visiting the island for a bachelor party, so the outbreak would be contained, but when he pulls the trigger, his hand breaks off, flips up and around and lodges itself in his face. At another point during a fight, the infected stop <more> acting like humans and start doing weird zombie moves breathing heavy and arching their backs and rolling their shoulders while moving their tongues around which seemed weird because up until a minute ago they were normal humans, and I've never seen a human do that during a fight. Then again, if I just had the skin pulled off my arms I don't think I'd have the strength to fight, so I guess at that point realism wasn't the goal. Also, for a containment lab, they had a really lax security system. The guys lift up a metal thing over the window and then just break the window and walk right in. They're on an island, but I still think they'd probably have a fence, or at least an alarm, especially since the lab was on lock-down. Later we see that breaking the window wasn't even necessary, one of the guys presses a button on a keypad and the door just opens. The other thing that bothered me is the way infected bodies were just left on the island they take care of the lab, but leaving bodies to rot on land would do as much damage as leaving an infected lab, especially since the movie made it clear the virus spreads from humans to rodents to fish without ever having to mutate. But besides that stuff, I really liked the movie. The actors were good, and I like that Sean Astin was in it, and was the carrier. Somewhere in my head I would like to think maybe he crossed movies, and gave Rider Strong the virus when they met in Borderlands, and then Ryder didn't get tortured to death. Instead he went back home and gave it to all his friends in Cabin Fever. Obviously that's not what happened, I just liked the connection between the two actors and the fact that the other movie they were in together took place in a Spanish speaking country tourists travel to all the time. Also, it helped explain my thoughts after the first film, which is one of my all time favorite horror movies just because of how surprisingly and horribly disgusting it was, but at the same time not so over-the-top gory that it comes off as unrealistic or cheesy. I wondered where the virus came from, but I didn't expect them to ever answer that. I'm so glad they did, and I can't wait for the next one, Outbreak. <less> |