Survivors

There were so many opportunities to add some action, excitement, tension, missed the opportunity every single time. This movie takes boing to a new level. It seemed so simple. Add some action. I'm not even a filmmaker and I could have greatly improved this snooze fest. What was this director trying to do? This is the movie equivalent of a shot of NyQuil.

This movie is so boring I want my 10 minutes of my life back. Acting is so bad you want run away from your tv. They is no action at all don't watch it if you want stay awake.

To be clear, zombie movies come in a number of styles. Fast zombies, slow zombies, rage virus zombies, WWZ action zombie movies, Shawn Of The Dead funny zombie movies, Warm Bodies romantic zombie movies, etc. The list is long.

This is a slow burn movie similar to The Battery or Maggie. It starts with a reporter who stumbles onto a story about a bioweapon virus killing people around the same time that the virus jumps to the general population. There are several subplots going on at the same time, before and after the virus hits.

The story itself is pretty straightforward, with suspense and mystery aided by the time jumps. This movie is more about the highs and lows that humanity is capable of when pushed by extreme circumstances than dealing with a zombie menace. If you need zombies chasing people down, it's not for you. If you like people trying to navigate a new world because of zombies, you might like it. If you appreciate slow building suspense movies with a great score, this is for you.

Once I realised that the entire first segment of the movie was a girl talking to a camera, and a cameraman who can't seem to communicate any other way except by filming, even in private conversations in hotel rooms, I turned off. This sort of style has been long overdone; it's not realistic, it's hard to watch, and hard to understand. Who is the cameraman? Why is he always hidden behind the camera? Why does he need to film 24 / 7, even the most trivial boring everyday things? Eventually I found that I didn't care. A slow start that petered to a halt. I've given it three stars as there's a faint chance I may go back and watch in fast-forward. The only disease I saw was boredom and boy was it contagious.

Dialog is too low and the rest is too loud. Everything sounds overly bassy. It's hard to understand the characters. I tried to use subtitles but it was obvious whoever did the subtitles couldn't understand the dialog either. A shame because it seems like it might have been a decent low-budget flick.