Stometer
Save your money for something good and enjoyable
Tayyab Torres
Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.
Geraldine
The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
SnoopyStyle
The apartment building in Los Angeles is being quarantined. Flight attendants Jenny and Paula arrive at LAX for their next flight. Henry brings an animal carrier onto the plane. The animal inside bites fat passenger Ralph and later he gets sick. He turns violent and they restraint him. As they land, Ralph gets loose and bites Paula. The pilots find airport worker Ed Ramirez but the place seems to be locked down.The first act is terrific. I love the claustrophobia of an airplane combined with the violence of the infected. I love all the false leads to the infection. It's a great start and a hopeful sign for the movie. Then they get out of the plane and part of the effectiveness is gone. It becomes more or less a B-movie horror. I wish they kept it as a virus on a plane. The baggage handling part of the airport allows for a labyrinthine chase although it's meaningless maze.
Disemboweled_Carcass
This was surprisingly good movie, the intense fright scenes were awesome.I know a good horror movie when I see one, and this movie was far better than most out there.I've been on a binge of watching low budget silly horror movies lately. For the past week and a half I've been looking at cover art to see if it looks inviting and then submitting myself to horrible acting, bad screen play and stupid plot twists but whatever.I thought, Quarantine, well the remake make was pretty decent, so Id try the sequel. Oh and who cares that it didn't follow the original REC2. This is QUARANTINE, NOT REC2. Chill out.I started watching this movie expecting it to be another stupid silly roll your eyes horror flick but was quite surprised how good it was. I especially loved the jump scare scenes.As I was watching it I was asking myself, when is it gonna be getting bad, OK any minute it will start to get bad but it didn't happen. Movie generally kept its promise to scare you. The kid annoyed me but thats OK, there's always some stupid character in every movie.So stop bitching at everything. Keyboard commandos. You make a movie and put it out.
Uriah43
Although the original film was a direct reproduction of the Spanish movie "Rec" this picture is not a clone of its sequel "Rec2". This film essentially starts on the same night the building is being quarantined in Los Angeles to a flight that is outbound from there to Kansas City. At first, other than a few people with symptoms of a cold or the flu nothing is out of the ordinary. However, "Co-Pilot Willsey" (Andrew Benator) does mention to two of the stewardesses, "Paula" (Bre Blair) and "Jenny" (Mercedes Masohn) that animals in his neighborhood have been acting rather strange lately. Then one of the passengers is bitten by a hamster. Not long afterward things begin to happen very dramatically. That same passenger gets violently ill, goes berserk and tries to force his way into the cockpit before being subdued. This causes the pilot, "Captain Forrest" (John Curran) to make an emergency landing at another airport. Once there the passengers and crew find themselves locked inside the baggage loading section underneath the terminal with no way out and a virus which is turning the passengers into raging maniacs. At any rate, rather than summarize the entire movie I will just say that this film was almost as good as the original. It has plenty of action and gore which should satisfy viewers looking for those kind of things. The acting is straight-forward and the story moves along rather well. And even though some people may argue over the technicalities of whether this is a zombie movie or not, it's still worth a view for those who enjoy that specific genre.
AloysiusWeasley
*Spoilers!* I went in not expecting very much of this, thinking it was a straight-to-DVD mess or something barfed out by SyFy totally unrelated to the original. Not so! Not only did it nicely dovetail with the original (introducing through a laptop video of a newscast), it was superior to the original. The new setting allowed for more plot/situation expansion, though I did give it an overall eight for some definite stupidity in character behavior/plot which certainly could have been improved, which we also saw in the original. With a threat like this, and a limited number of possible threats, combined with having trained emergency personnel on hand, there's no reason why they couldn't have formed a defensive perimeter and shot or otherwise taken care of any that came near. Then most everyone would have gotten out alive when the quarantine was broken, after proper testing. Barring that, the character behavior in this was generally realistic, and the acting wasn't bad. The Shilah character was ridiculous and a true detractor from the movie - she's a member of the armed forces and a medic, and she doesn't even think to pick up a weapon until long after the surprisingly competent flight attendant grabs a wrench.Also improved was not viewing through a camera lens, making for a much less shaky movie-watching experience. Overall an excellent watch on an otherwise quiet evening if you're interested in horror/thriller with a touch of infected/zombies. The ending also demands a Quarantine 3, which will hopefully expand the universe in a 28 Days Later-like fashion. It's not often I want a sequel!
