As a horror connaisseur, I hope I have a balanced perspective.
The dystopian world is almost always a good setting to see people pressed to their limits. They also did a good job in this movie of the plague being not SO contagious that people turn green before your very eyes. It was a very believable scenario.
That being said, they had to stretch too far to have the teens do the stupid thing where in this world of cause and effect would ultimately lead to their doom.
First you have the "hothead" teen that really does the right thing most of the time to survive. They needed to show him swerving around on the road to show the audience how "reckless" he was, but really he was making the hard choices the rest of the innocents avoided making.
The other teens were too naive to be believable. Like when the younger brother says to the car they just ran off the road "hey, we just need some gas." Also, how many of us would have a bleeding heart in such dire circumstances? Piper Perabo is still looking good. She is 33 years old now, and still can play a college girl. You know I'd do her.
The dystopian world is almost always a good setting to see people pressed to their limits. They also did a good job in this movie of the plague being not SO contagious that people turn green before your very eyes. It was a very believable scenario.
That being said, they had to stretch too far to have the teens do the stupid thing where in this world of cause and effect would ultimately lead to their doom.
First you have the "hothead" teen that really does the right thing most of the time to survive. They needed to show him swerving around on the road to show the audience how "reckless" he was, but really he was making the hard choices the rest of the innocents avoided making.
The other teens were too naive to be believable. Like when the younger brother says to the car they just ran off the road "hey, we just need some gas." Also, how many of us would have a bleeding heart in such dire circumstances? Piper Perabo is still looking good. She is 33 years old now, and still can play a college girl. You know I'd do her.
