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  • 2009
  • PG-13
  • Paramount Vantage
  • 1 h 25 m
  • 2009
  • PG-13
  • Paramount Vantage
  • 1 h 25 m

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)

Directed By: David Pastor, Àlex Pastor

Written By: Àlex Pastor, David Pastor

  • 2009
  • PG-13
  • Paramount Vantage
  • 1 h 25 m
  • 2009
  • PG-13
  • Paramount Vantage
  • 1 h 25 m
Carriers
Metascore Available after 4 critic reviews
User Score Mixed or average Based on 33 User Ratings
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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)

Directed By: David Pastor, Àlex Pastor

Written By: Àlex Pastor, David Pastor

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Carriers has moments of genuinely communicable horror.
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A moody, engaging end-of-the-world horror-drama, if a bit too apocalypse-lite.
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Mixed or average Based on 33 User Ratings
5.9
42% Positive
14 Ratings
45% Mixed
15 Ratings
12% Negative
4 Ratings

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Meth-dude
Feb 6, 2015
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.
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juliankennedy23
Jul 11, 2014
[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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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 and made me wonder if this is how the people who lived through the plague felt.
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MamaTLF
Sep 5, 2013
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...
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conschobhar
Sep 27, 2010
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.
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Production Company Paramount Vantage, Likely Story, This Is That Productions, Ivy Boy Productions
Release Date Sep 4, 2009
Duration 1 h 25 m
Rating PG-13
Genres
Tagline The rules are simple. You break them, you die...
Website http://www.carriersmovie.com/
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