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this movie was terrible


horrible acting, cheesy dialogue, stereotypical characters that somehow survive the apocalypse despite looking and acting like they're in a frat house. this movie did not make me laugh once, or make me jump/feel surprised. i rolled my eyes about every 5 minutes groaning "god this is so boring." this seems in many parts like a bad american ripoff of 28 days later/every other zombie movie. the characters are impossible to sympathize with because they're all so stupid. this movie has no message whatsoever. if this "outbreak" did happen and was as contageous as they say in the film, the entire planet would be infected within a week at the MOST (it's airborn and spreads by touching the same things the infected people touch) - yet the main characters enjoy removing their face masks and gloves frequently while entering infected areas because they were obviously only cast in the film for the way they look - - which isn't even attractive. the women are all stupid and constantly put themselves at risk for infection because they want to help the dying people. the main male character is the biggest douche i've seen in any film in years. not because he's an *beep* in the film, which he is, but because he acts like he was pulled straight from mtv's bromance. total douche.

waste of time, seriously don't bother.

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Good movie. I understand it was disappointing for those who went in expecting a horror flick but it is not even of that genre. It is a drama that focuses on how humans react when endangered. It focuses on how far humans will go to protect themselves like when chris pine shoots the two ladies who were clearly not infected and how they left the father (also not infected) to die in the middle of nowhere. It shows how a brother may turn against you when his own life is at risk and he is convinced that his brother is doomed. I wish they had done more to the ending and i wish they had made the scene in which piper gets infected a bit realistic. I mean they could have showed that the mask broke off instead of her fault of not wearing it properly.. 7/10 for me though

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Total trash in every way.

It has a 1 from me too.

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"boring, zombie Abercrombie & Fitch ad" - yup, that sums it up very well

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