Carriers (2009)

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

it is the rare 'crazy' movie that actually has something to say.

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

This was a missed opportunity to write, what could have been an intriguing movie. The opening scene clearly delineates the tempo, which crawls rather than moves, of the movie and also the future occurrences. The predictability is bothersome and transparent. The characters are shallowly presented and highly unlikable, and and in my opinion, frankly deserved whatever happened to them. An adequate synopsis of the title would be: Beer swilling protagonist imbecile drives around the desert, drinks, drinks more, acts like an imbecile some more and then expires. As far as the ending it appears more likely the money for the project ended, once they saw what had been printed.

Brothers Danny (Lou Taylor Pucci) and Brian (Chris Pine) are traveling in a viral apocalyptic world with Bobby (Piper Perabo) and Kate (Emily VanCamp). They have rules. Avoid the infected. Disinfect anything they touched in the last 24 hours. The sick are already dead. They run into Frank (Christopher Meloni) who is out of gas, but his daughter Jodie (Kiernan Shipka) is infected. When their car is damaged beyond repair, they join up with Frank and his daughter to find a rumored cure. Things don't turn out and the quartet moves on to encounter others.This movie drops the audience into a world after everything has already gone to hell. The start is too pedestrian. I get the idea is to make a low budget indie. However the movie needs to start with action. It needs to give a good reason why the quartet is on the trip in the first place. Danny's explanation seems so childish. Traveling would logically seem to be a dangerous thing to do. There are just a lot of questionable things that the people keep doing. These idiots are just not likable. They keep doing stupid things. Brian almost crash two cars on the open road because he's an idiot. Brian is a domineering angry Ahole and it drives me crazy. Why is he poking around in the pool? Then just for more idiocy, he drives a golf cart just as bad. They lay out rules and yet they are all ignored. These people should have seen it all and yet they are wildly emotional about everything. These people suffer from self-inflicted wounds and it makes it difficult to root for them.

The post-apocalyptic atmosphere around "Carriers" makes us remind The Walking Dead, even though its focus is a little bit different in relation to the series, once there isn't any zombie featured in. Besides that, spectators have to take in account that plot is mainly centered on the decisions in which characters have to make in face of hard situations featured throughout the movie, what is a clear evidence we are faced with a dramatic thriller and not necessarily a horror movie. It's even unknown, for example, where the virus came from and how outbreak really ends. In fact, the movie's greatest aspect is that it makes us reflect, in a realistic way, on how it'd be if people actually had to live in a post- apocalyptic world, without government, social organization or even food. And what about familiar and sentimental ties? Luckily, author of the film leaves out any fictional, boring and overused Zombie theme. Besides that, Road movies are always welcome and this is surely one of best out of 'em.

To all intents and purposes, Carriers really isn't that much of a horror film, it's more a survivalist, character based, road movie. After an infectious virus has decimated the Earth, two brothers (Chris Pine/Lou Taylor Pucci) and their two lady companions (Piper Perabo/Emily VanCamp) are heading to Turtle Beach in the hope that in isolation there they can ride out the epidemic and start afresh.What follows is that they encounter a man on the road with his sick daughter, and their plans then go astray. The moral dilemmas build up, the character dynamics unfurling in a whirl of human emotions, disappointments and heart aching decisions are evident as the search for sanity and gasoline goes on. Naturally the virus isn't the only thing to be fearful of, there's the other virus, that of the human condition in survival situations...Having sat on the shelf for three years, Carriers came a bit late in the day to make a telling mark in a sub-genre of horror that has tapped into our new age fear of the virus. In a way that is a shame, because David and Alex Pastor's (writers/directors) film is very well made. With good performances, astute photography and a humanistic narrative that is not without merit. Yet even for 2009 it feels old hat, like a lukewarm sci-fi schlocker without the monsters or apocalyptic peril.It's well worth a watch because there is nothing irritating here, but anyone expecting some infected/zombie infused apocalypto will be very disappointed. 6/10