Fight or Flight

It's one character's replica and it's my motto too, especially in these times we live. A film with an unusual terrorist attack that takes me with the thought of the Japanese attack with Sarin in Tokyo in 1995. The terrorist here (well, he thinks he's a patriot...) says exactly what Donald Trump said before he became president : "We've got to take this country back!" But it is all about the detonation of the twin towers in New York in 2001, a little bit different. A pot of ideas and references in a weak, inconsistent film.

This is the story of a building that is part of a "terror experiment" where an explosion happens and then certain people get infected and become feral. You know what happens next.

So, you take some decent actors like Judd Nelson, Robert Carradine, C. Thomas Howell and Jason London... you see their stars have fallen and you have get them cheap. And then you throw a script at them, as they take the bait. Voila! Another infection, pseudo-zombie film.

As I say, what a waste of talent. These guys are actually decent actors, and to put them in something like this gives the film too much credit and tarnishes whatever good name they have. We have seen this story dozens, hundreds, maybe a thousand times. The plot is so unoriginal, it is a surprise it was even made and a bigger surprise that it was distributed. I see several movies a week, and this is among the worst I saw this year.

(2010) The Terror Experiment/ Fight or Flight POLITICAL HORROR THRILLER

Low budget straight-to-rental movie with C Thomas Howell and Judd Nelson in minor roles that has something to do with a militia man's personal grudge against the gov't by planting top secret government toxins on top of a government owned building so that he can unleash it for it's not quite revealed how he even obtained it in the first place. Once he unleashes the chemical toxins, they vaporize itself which upon breathing some can turn some into ghouls/ zombies. There's also a gov't cover-up theme to it which is absolutely nonsense. By looking at the big picture, it looks like that the movie was made in a week as a cash grab since some viewers will watch anything these days. I unfortunately happened catch this on one of those movie channels in which I was able to waste time recording it onto a recordable VHS and then use a fast forward button while playing before reusing the tape again by recording another movie. Bomb.

An angry veteran sets off a virus in a building and turns the office staff into even angrier zombies. Put quarantine and 28 days later into the blender and the terror experiment is what comes out of the mix. It has a lot of unknowns in the cast along with old reliables like judd nelson and c thomas howell. There is some action but the whole thing can come across as being a little bit funny, silly and slow at times. The zombies are not really zombies and more like infected living people. If ever there was 2 am viewing this is definitely it. Watchable but nothing too taxing.

"They'll label me a terrorist but I'm a patriot." After a disgruntled veteran unleashes a virus in an office building in order to expose a government secret things don't go as planned. A group of uninfected survivors try to escape the quarantined building and get to safety before it's too late. I had no idea what to expect from this movie at all. I have been watching almost everything before watching the preview to help me have a clean slate when I start. I saw the cast and thought this may be OK. I wish I would have seen the preview first. I am not sure if they were going for a serious movie or a over-the-top cheesy comedy movie. I hope to God it was the latter because if they tried to make this a serious movie they failed. If they went for a comedy type movie they did a little better but this is a few steps above the Sci-Fy channel movies (because of the cast). I really thought this was going to be a zombie movie but it turned out to be a comedy (?) version of "Quarantine". Overall, not my kind of movie but some people will like it. I give it a C-.