SummaryFour kids are driving through the desert on the way to the beach, their faces anything but cheery: this isn't Spring Break. They're trying to outrun the end of the world--and each other. No one is safe from he viral pandemic threatening to wipe out the human race. (Paramount Vantage)
SummaryFour kids are driving through the desert on the way to the beach, their faces anything but cheery: this isn't Spring Break. They're trying to outrun the end of the world--and each other. No one is safe from he viral pandemic threatening to wipe out the human race. (Paramount Vantage)
Really impressing movie.Chris Pine is absolutely brilliant in his role of the bad ass **** movie is pretty slow and there is not a lot of **** it is entertaining.
Carriers is a surreal look at the end of humanity through the eyes of 4 survivors of a deadly virus. Unlike many other similar stories, Carriers follows two brothers and shows just how far people would really have to go in order to survive something of this nature. Its raw and graphic and made me wonder if this is how the people who lived through the plague felt.
Dull, boring and very short movie (~1 hour 30 min) that tries to cover a story that is to long to fit in it, like trying to fit an elephant in the trunk of your car. You can't bond with the characters because they ether die or the movie starts to roll the credits. Movie doesn't explain anything about the infection, how characters got together, what they did after they finished their journey in any way so that you should care about them, the outcome from the situation or the entire situation itself. All that coupled with some of the situations that couldn't possibly happen in realty (character acting and reacting to the environment) the movie is just meh...
This film is surprisingly good. It is extremely well executed and a fine example of a simple yet subtle film succeeding by sticking to the basics. Devastating at points, Carriers is an admirable piece of filmmaking.
The caricatures are shallow, and their behaviors simultaneously wholly unbelievable and utterly predictable. Rather than developing horror situations naturally, the film employs the tired trope of characters launching themselves into danger with their own unrealistic stupidity and manufactured interpersonal tensions. This happens immediately. The disease is supposed to be 100% lethal, its symptoms are viscerally recognizable, and it is highly transmissible through breath and surfaces. Even the worst covidiot would understand the necessity of personal protective equipment. And yet we are introduced to a group that has supposedly survived for some time in this world despite wildly inconsistent self-preservation practices.
• If I need a pistol to protect myself, I'm not going to be wasting bullets hammering home my machismo persona.
• If I take the precaution of emptying containers of bleach onto the interior of an SUV and and saran-wrapping the back seat to isolate infected passengers, I am certainly ALSO going to be wearing a mask 100% of the time I am in that disease-mobile, or when exploring hospitals where the sick are congregating, or basically whenever I'm within 20 feet of an infected person or stranger. I am not going to be so overcome with obnoxiously stereotyped maternal instincts for a diseased child I just met that I expose myself to the contagion in an ineffectual attempt to help her.
• If I already had to steal at least one vehicle, and am actively avoiding interstates out of concern for infectious bandits, I am not going to risk getting injured or stranded in the desert under any circumstances. I am not going to be traveling unseatbelted in a car being driven well over the speed limit by a volatile violent **** drinking beer. I am definitely not going to be making out with or antagonizing that driver, or playfully lunging at the steering wheel, while he's driving with infectious human projectiles in the back seat.
All of this is in the first 25 minutes!