The premise sounded very good, I had high hopes going in, but the plot becomes really silly, really quickly, with time never really being shown in any kind of consistent manner. Somehow this film manages to be stupidly fast paced and ridiculously slow at the same time, a feat I've never seen in a film before. It could have been explained so simply with a small subtitle day 1, day 2 etc and it would have made more sense.
People became bloodthirsty within hours, which made no sense at all. There are a lot of questions which are never answered: The scene with the prisoners, explained as "the guards came back and opened the doors" why? It agains makes no sense, a simply and more plausible answer would have been "the doors were electronically opened when the event happened. Done.
Why did the one prisoner save them? Never explained. How did he suddenly reappear at the hub with the family having no idea where the family were? Never explained.
Why was dodge seemingly able to function better than most? How did he die? Never answered.
Now onto the massive plot hole... I figured out the reason pretty much straight away, it was so obvious and yet no one in the film asked the basic question, what happened to the girl that hadn't happened to the others? A team of scientists never even asked. She died and was revived, simple.
When the girl finally figures it out, why did they take the mom to the lake to drown her? Why not just put a pillow over her head right there and use the defibrillator? I'm guessing the director wanted to use water as a kind of "baptism" but why go down a religious route at the end after showing the religious people in the film to be nutters?
Poorly written, poorly edited and poorly directed which is a real shame as the acting itself wasn't too bad.
People became bloodthirsty within hours, which made no sense at all. There are a lot of questions which are never answered: The scene with the prisoners, explained as "the guards came back and opened the doors" why? It agains makes no sense, a simply and more plausible answer would have been "the doors were electronically opened when the event happened. Done.
Why did the one prisoner save them? Never explained. How did he suddenly reappear at the hub with the family having no idea where the family were? Never explained.
Why was dodge seemingly able to function better than most? How did he die? Never answered.
Now onto the massive plot hole... I figured out the reason pretty much straight away, it was so obvious and yet no one in the film asked the basic question, what happened to the girl that hadn't happened to the others? A team of scientists never even asked. She died and was revived, simple.
When the girl finally figures it out, why did they take the mom to the lake to drown her? Why not just put a pillow over her head right there and use the defibrillator? I'm guessing the director wanted to use water as a kind of "baptism" but why go down a religious route at the end after showing the religious people in the film to be nutters?
Poorly written, poorly edited and poorly directed which is a real shame as the acting itself wasn't too bad.