Hadn't heard of this so thought we would give it a try, I didn't look at the reviews beforehand so went in completely unbiased. This was an absolutely awful film for a number of reasons;
The Characters: Pretty much every character in this film was poorly designed, their motives were increasingly questionable and in some cases would flip at random without any real reason. Also when a 'major' event such as a death or killing of one occurred they tried to make it incredibly meaningful but hadn't really provided the audience with any real attachment to feel something when they died which was poor. I could see what they were going for but from an emotional response respect it did not achieve what they were attempting. The fact that the 'good guys' were actually ridiculously irritating and made so many bad choices that would realistically be detrimental to themselves and their groups survival made them irritating and made you vouch more for the bad guys just to end the stupidity.
The SFX: I understand with low budget/indie films you have to bite your lip a little at the quality of special effects as it is only fair but these were downright terrible. The makeup department did a pretty great job but the CGI was just unrealistic and looks like the sort of thing I created when doing After Effects training for the first time in college.
The Plot: There are so many plot holes and red herrings. For example, as someone said earlier why are the infected trying to hijack planes? the infection causes no form of superiority complex/Mental impairment it just makes you look deformed so they have nothing to gain from traveling to other places other than making more people look deformed, I know there was the cliche "potential cure" but come on. People would run away to finish off personal vigilante fuelled missions that didn't really help anybody. Two of the cast slowly wandered around watching TV and listening to radio stations just repeating what they already knew which ultimately meant they are wasting time, aren't they supposed to be in a hurry... the infected might be coming, maybe? If they had got their act together this film could have been over and done with in 20 minutes, instead dragged on and on.
I know the 'infection' theme has been done over and over again so you can only expect so much but this was just dreadful, I have seen low budget movies create much more satisfying and enjoyable content.
The Characters: Pretty much every character in this film was poorly designed, their motives were increasingly questionable and in some cases would flip at random without any real reason. Also when a 'major' event such as a death or killing of one occurred they tried to make it incredibly meaningful but hadn't really provided the audience with any real attachment to feel something when they died which was poor. I could see what they were going for but from an emotional response respect it did not achieve what they were attempting. The fact that the 'good guys' were actually ridiculously irritating and made so many bad choices that would realistically be detrimental to themselves and their groups survival made them irritating and made you vouch more for the bad guys just to end the stupidity.
The SFX: I understand with low budget/indie films you have to bite your lip a little at the quality of special effects as it is only fair but these were downright terrible. The makeup department did a pretty great job but the CGI was just unrealistic and looks like the sort of thing I created when doing After Effects training for the first time in college.
The Plot: There are so many plot holes and red herrings. For example, as someone said earlier why are the infected trying to hijack planes? the infection causes no form of superiority complex/Mental impairment it just makes you look deformed so they have nothing to gain from traveling to other places other than making more people look deformed, I know there was the cliche "potential cure" but come on. People would run away to finish off personal vigilante fuelled missions that didn't really help anybody. Two of the cast slowly wandered around watching TV and listening to radio stations just repeating what they already knew which ultimately meant they are wasting time, aren't they supposed to be in a hurry... the infected might be coming, maybe? If they had got their act together this film could have been over and done with in 20 minutes, instead dragged on and on.
I know the 'infection' theme has been done over and over again so you can only expect so much but this was just dreadful, I have seen low budget movies create much more satisfying and enjoyable content.