No sympathy for the main character.

Cris Pine's character was selfish. His girlfriend gets sick so he abandons her. He gets sick so he does everything he can to live, despite knowing he has no chance, and risks infecting his brother for no reason at all.

I cheered when that lady shot him in the leg.

Chris Pine's character was not exactly an a-hole, but he was what we call in this country 'a bit of a dick'. Not hateful so much as...being a dick. His first two lines, especially the one about warm beer, were delivered terribly by Mr Pine, which didn't make for a good start.

Kate wasn't "like" she was justifying it. She was justifying it because it was the logical thing to do. Not moral, mind you, but logical.

Bobby got what she deserved. In a fairly literal sense.

And no, you can never say that you know you will never abandon your brother. That is just stupid. You are stupid. However, I entirely believe that there are people like that in the world and you may be one of them. Fair enough. But you can't say that you know, you just feel quite strongly, that is all.

Yeah, how dare Daniel to act like the very sheltered young man he was instead of throwing away his good nature and morals in favor of going full-commando-take-no-prisoners mode the moment the pandemic broke! *facepalm*

I don't know if you were too busy droling over Chris Pine's abs to notice, but Danny is easily the most affected by the events going on at the beginning of / during the movie. The doctor choosing eutanasia for the group of sick but very healthy looking kids, Brian ditching Frank and his dying daughter in a ghost town, the cold blooded murder of two women for some gas, etc... All logical and necessary course of actions to ensure their survival, sure, but he isn't as desensitised as his older brother yet (nor has given up hope as Kate had by that point), has very likely not seen too many corpses to be so, and still refuses to abandon all hope and give in to the kind of world Brian's alredady living in. He isn't "all talk", he's desperately clinging to life prior pandemic; Daniel invariably tries to do the "right" (law-abiding, compasionate) thing - his primary instinct-, until there is not longer an alternative (he may be sensitive, but not stupid).

As the film becomes more and more dark, so does Danny. Bobby's getting infected is a hard wake up call, yet he doesn't totally give up and go "survival of the fittest" until he losses Brian to the disease and is confronted with his brother hipocricy - Brian has no issues leaving their parents to root WITHOUT TELLING HIM (look at Danny's utterly shocked face in that scene; is Brian who desperately wants to believe Danniel "knew" and would have done the same thing to survive), abandoning a child AND Bobby to die alone, yet he's ready to risk his own brother's life without so much as a second thought because the rules don't apply to him. Is also very selfish of Brian to force Daniel to kill him; one could argue he was trying to prepare Danny for life without him but, as a result, Daniel loses the only thing worth saving - himself, as the beach scene so blatanty puts it. He and Kate survive, but a what cost?

I don't get all these negative comments about the character. He tries very hard to keep everyone safe and resorts to different means to help them survive. You notice that no one majorly objects when he does things such as leaving the bloke and his daughter and leaving Bobbi. I certainly would in his position, what would be the point in keeping someone with you who is going to possibly endanger the rest of you? Compassion asides, it would endanger his brother who he is protecting as well as he can.

The film sort of falls apart a bit when Brian shoots the two women in the car, I can see why he does it but it stretches his character from being ruthless to being a flat out killer. As soon as he fired those bullets I knew his character was doomed. However, I think if there were two angry guys in the car who he shot no one would be as bothered about it half as much. Wasn't very Christian of those women though!

In reality I think he would have survived more than anyone. At the end he is asking for his brother to kill him, which is fair. I saw a few posts wondering why as soon as people were infected they seemed to stop thinking logically, I would imagine this is due to the fever symptoms of the virus.