Carriers

Name: Carriers
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Horror
Released: September 4, 2009
Duration: 84 min
Cast: Chris Pine, Lou Taylor Pucci, Piper Perabo

2009

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Paramount Vantage | Release Date: September 4, 2009 | PG-13

Starring: Chris Pine, Lou Taylor Pucci, Piper Perabo

Summary: Four 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)

Director: Àlex Pastor and David Pastor

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller, Horror

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 84 min

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Rob Nelson

Carriers has moments of genuinely communicable horror. Read full review

Empire Simon Crook

A moody, engaging end-of-the-world horror-drama, if a bit too apocalypse-lite. Read full review

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Meth-dude

Feb 6, 2015

Really impressing movie.Chris Pine is absolutely brilliant in his role of the bad ass brother.The movie is pretty slow and there is not a lot of action.But it is entertaining.

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RodrigoC.

Dec 22, 2009

This a very ockward movie, it has really good moments. that are scary as hell and the actors are pretty nice as well. But then you start asking yourself. Where the hell did this disease come from? Still it´s a good movie.

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BrentP.

Jan 1, 2010

Definitely worth watching. There are few 'scary' parts and the film's real worth is in the emotional heart tugging that occurs when 'carriers' are left behind to die. Great performances by Chris Pine and Piper Perabo.

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JamesH.

Jan 4, 2010

Solid thriller, believably done with a very good cast. It has some very tense scenes, it was always interesting, well made and thought provoking. The characters are well developed.

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juliankennedy23

Jul 11, 2014

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Carriers: 6 out of 10: What amazes me about Carriers is how it has the exact same plot as Zombieland. A story about two siblings traveling across a devastated and depopulated United States to visit a theme park in California that reminds them of childhood. The movies even share the same fetish for a nerdy character that has come up with all the rules to keep them alive.

While Zombieland was filmed in early 2009 and released later that year on 3000 plus screens; Carriers was filmed in 2006 and released on a hundred screens in 2009 to virtually no fanfare. Only actor's Chris Pine's recent starring role in the Star Trek movie caused it to be released theatrically at all.

The other main difference is while Zombieland on the surface may appear to be a horror-comedy along the lines of Shaun of the Dead it really is more of a straightforward comedy with gore and zombies. Carriers also certainly appears to be a horror film on the surface but it really isn't. This is large D drama that starts off serious and gets quite disheartening before the end credits role.

Carriers is a medical drama writ large mixed with a post-apocalyptic future. There are no zombies or even 28 Days Later pseudo zombies. This is not an exploitation film as there is no nudity or violence; there is also very little action. There is simply a small handful of sick people, a small handful of not yet sick people and a copious amount of dead people. It is more a sequel to a bird flu movie than a Dawn of the Dead film.

Carriers biggest problem is it simply is hard to root for any of the characters. Chris Pine and Lou Taylor Pucci play the siblings heading to their childhood vacation spot (of which we see strange seventies era super 8 nostalgia footage though judging by the age of the characters their childhood was in 1995). Pucci is the rules nerd while Pine is a super jerk (or as TV Tropes wisely points out a Psycho Party Member).

Then you have the ladies. Emily VanCamp plays what would seem to Pucci's girlfriend but she is frigid, preppy, and possibly a lesbian. At the very least the "I wouldn't kiss you if you were the last man on earth" rule seems to apply here. Piper Perabo as Pine's girlfriend is borderline likable but she is whiny and a liar and I really am grading on a curve here.

Only Christopher Meloni as a father with an already sick daughter seems to pull on the heart strings; but he isn't a member of the core group and they separate ways halfway through.

The acting is good across the board with Meloni and VanCamp the standouts. The film also seems much grounded in its reality and logic is safely tucked into bed every night. I simply wish the movie was about a different group of survivors.… Expand

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Tss5078

Feb 24, 2013

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 andCarriers 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.… Expand

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Mr.T

Jan 19, 2010

Boring movie, characters one cant like, lame ending, not even action... Not worth watching.

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