The Carrier

This sounded mildly intriguing so we gave it a whirl. How I wish we hadn't. It started off OK, but quickly revealed itself as a very cheaply-made straight-to-video formula horror/thriller. It looked as though it may have been a pilot for a TV serial that never got made (can't think why). Most of the characters are either useless and unreliable or just plain psychos, like 'Eric' who goes around wrecking the group's chances of survival. According to the end credits, it was filmed 'around the back of B&Q in Basildon' or something like that. Avoid.

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

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!

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.

The idea had potential, but I think it just missed for me. The pandemic has taught us that people WOULD in fact be idiots, and try and jump on a plane despite the risk to others. So the very idea of this film is a solid one.

The problem is the characters were bland and one dimensional, and I don't feel the film had any real focus, or real ending. Like there were some very good ideas going on, but they needed developing more, and the film needed more focus on deciding what it wanted to be. It started off very reasonable, but then just went flat.

The other issue I had is the acting was a little all over the place. Some points seemed overacted, where as other actors felt flat/stiff. I wish the film had more going for it, because the concept is a good one.