The Carrier

Not a great movie by any stretch, but merely a somewhat good movie. My wife got this having no idea of the ratings, and I had read about it, expecting some utter crap movie. Honestly is is quite watchable, a bit low budget, but not nearly a bad movie. It is somewhat suspenseful and was a really good rainy weekend movie!

I think some of the really bad reviews are not real. A solid 5.5-6 movie. Acting is okay, effects a bit mediocre, but the music, filming and story are all fairly decent. The movie really got interesting after they got out of the sky and onto the ground! I wanted to lend a real view of this movie. So to sum up,a DECENT rental, you would do far worse. It is English made, and features and English cast, so those that are unable to watch anything that is not USA made or Big budget, just pass it by. For the rest, that want a good movie, give it a try!

There are some interesting little set pieces here that, at the very least, keep the watcher interested. However the big problem is that the writers have a basic concept of 'plague on a plane' and no idea of how to flesh out the story, the characters or how to end the film.

The action is wooden, the character motivations are strange, to say the least, random things happen like people turn up to shoot at people and then just disappear.

However the scene with 'the arm' is quite harrowing, the opening scene is full of suspense and the counter play with the other pilot is well done. Shame they couldn't knit it all together.

The movie seemed to have everything going for it at the start and it starts well but somewhere down the road the director and the people in charge just forgot why they were making the movie and got trapped in each others ideas.

Why am I saying this - 1. The movie starts off with a pandemic which is not curable - fair topic 2. People want to escape the country before quarantine laws are enforced - fair point too 3. Heard and headed for a Shangri la - fair point

Despite the above, the movie without any pressure about the virus/infection turns into a more than decent human interest movie and should have continued down that road. Tons of emotional trauma and baggage would have made this an above average movie but the ideas start to spin and the mess unravels with more muck than one can digest.

The story should have been about the survivors but....

The movie does not show anything about the infection either.

Go ponder and leave this thing alone.

I'm not sure why I'm writing this review. I've spent far too much time on this film already. Perhaps I just want to warn people that this is not a very entertaining film and not just because of the grim subject matter.

It was so annoying that everyone was acting stupid, I wanted to punch my screen watching this!