This movie came highly recommended by a colleague at work. Hearing someone say that they saw a cool horror movie that they really enjoyed, you cannot help yourself but follow their advice to check it out. Thus, we started watching this movie hoping it would deliver, yet when the closing title appeared, it came with a sense of disappointment.
Maybe our high expectations ruined it, or maybe it was all the rat noises thrown in to scare people... Rat noises, either with or without a bit scary rat close up, especially if you keep repeating it over and over and over, become tiresome to hear after a while. Why rats you wonder? Because its a twist from the normal zombie movies, it involves rats as the origin of all the problems. It does not explain why, maybe its because rats are icky and scary, and they kill people and such. The why or how are not important, that's left for you to decide... moving on.
The actors do a good job and the the characters are nicely played, you kind of feel for them and for what you know is coming, and its interesting to watch their lives unfold with the warning signs increasing in the background (TV reports, etc).
First half of the movie is quite uneventful, and it slowly picks up the pace, with a scare or two thrown in to to keep us going, or awake, depending on what time of the day it is. Until finally, and as usual with a zombie horror flick, chaos breaks loose and it has some good moments and scares. But in the end it raised more questions than it it could or wanted to answer... and I left feeling tired instead of entertained.
Don't watch this with any expectations whatsoever...
Maybe our high expectations ruined it, or maybe it was all the rat noises thrown in to scare people... Rat noises, either with or without a bit scary rat close up, especially if you keep repeating it over and over and over, become tiresome to hear after a while. Why rats you wonder? Because its a twist from the normal zombie movies, it involves rats as the origin of all the problems. It does not explain why, maybe its because rats are icky and scary, and they kill people and such. The why or how are not important, that's left for you to decide... moving on.
The actors do a good job and the the characters are nicely played, you kind of feel for them and for what you know is coming, and its interesting to watch their lives unfold with the warning signs increasing in the background (TV reports, etc).
First half of the movie is quite uneventful, and it slowly picks up the pace, with a scare or two thrown in to to keep us going, or awake, depending on what time of the day it is. Until finally, and as usual with a zombie horror flick, chaos breaks loose and it has some good moments and scares. But in the end it raised more questions than it it could or wanted to answer... and I left feeling tired instead of entertained.
Don't watch this with any expectations whatsoever...