Pandemic

I rate it "stay away" for the simple reason that the production values were negative. The sound was awful, the plot ridiculous, the endless scenes where someone would run or drive or ride while a music was playing in the background were annoying, the acting was truly shameful. And the title was pretty much deceitful, as the plot doesn't treat a pandemic, but a contagion, and a very localised one at that.

There is something good about the movie, and that is the paranoid feel that you get when the army comes marching in, cutting every link to the outside world based on some unknown Act, but basically through the power of their guns, and you don't really know: are there to protect you and are assholes by design, or are there to hurt you and they are feigning civility?

Bottom line: if this would have been a low budget movie about alien abductions and anal probes, probably it would have been more believable. I don't think there is any reason why someone would watch this film except for learning to spot the mistakes in film-making. It is not so bad as to be funny, though.

I just finished watching this movie and really wished I would have rented a different one. If you even look at the cover of the movie at your local rental store then you just wasted your time. I strongly discourage anyone renting and especially buying this low budget film. If you look at the pictures on the front and back cover, you'll notice it does not match ANY scene in the movie. It's definitely a misguided catch as to how the movie is going to turn out. This movie was shot in 12 days and from listing to the dialog it was written in 10. Crew members were asked to play characters in the movie because of the $200,000 low budget.

I only chose 1 out of 10 because there wasn't a .5 out of 10.

I'll keep it simple. I want the 1 1/2 hours of my life back that I wasted watching this movie.

The story line wasn't that bad, but the acting, directing and score (if you want to call it that) were pathetic.

The beginning of the movie showed promise as was stated in an earlier review, but the script and the actors ruined it quickly.

The music did not fit the movie. The cinematography was atrocious by continuing to show the same still frames seemingly just to fill space. Some parts of the movie were so dark you couldn't tell what was happening.

Whoever mixed the sound for the movie should never be allowed to do that again. Some parts of the movie were loud; others were barely audible.

Wow, that was bad. I hoped to see a good thriller, but this movie is just boring and very stupid.

The story does not really make any sense, and the filming is just awful. There are some "twists" in the story that are not explained, are unnecessary or just very naive. Also, the way the two "doctors" behave when they suspect that the disease might be contagious is just hilarious.

In addition to the story, you'll also see some really bad and annoying lighting and camera work, and there's not really much to say about the score either.

Don't waste your time on this.

See here's the thing. I don't mind a really truly terrible movie, because at least it's so bad it's funny. This one though, just elicited NO reaction in me. It wasn't awful, it wasn't disgusting, it wasn't funny, it just...was. I couldn't even muster up the emotion to rate it 1/10 for awful.

After watching this I still don't understand what was going on. The military good/bad aspects might have been a nice twist, but it was handled all wrong and didn't have any sort of a plot setup to make it feasible. The spooky scary music did nothing for me and the acting was pretty, well, boring. Plus, the suffering, dying animals at the beginning of the movie did not bode well for me, a card-carrying member of the Humane Society. I should have turned it off when I saw that.

When I saw the cover and the title I thought it might have a bit more energy and maybe horror or zombie parts than it ended up actually having. This movie just didn't have...anything..