The next 3 reviews will focus on three different Post Apocalyptic films..
When it comes to the end of the world, how would you survive, what if it was a zombie apocalypse, a nuclear war or a biological plague? Carrier shows us how a group of the usual beautiful people, cope in a world where the population is on the brink of complete extinction. That sounds a little harsh on the cast, but they are considered beautiful people, but these a people thrown together thanks to extreme circumstances, a biological virus, that wipes out a rather large percentage of the worlds people.
The film follows Star Trek's (2009) Chris Pine, Piper Perabo, lou Taylor Pucci and Emily Van Camp as they make they're way across a desolate America, heading towards a summer beach house owned by Pine and Pucci's parents. Perabo plays Pine's girlfriends and Van Camp plays a friend of theirs. While on their Journey they come across a stranded father with an infected daughter, after an alter-cation the group leave only to turn back to help them. The father played by the awesome Christopher Meloni (TV's OZ) tells them of a school where sick people are being treated and coerces them into taking them there. They arrive and find that there is nothing there except for a doctor who is helping the children die instead of curing them. Something happens and The Father and his little girl are unable to get back into the car and the father ends up leaving the group. The Plot then follows them as the encounter problem after problem as they journey south to the beach house.
The cast is actually pretty good, especially Chris Pine who I thought was awful and totally miscast in Star Trek, but in this he was pretty good, he played his part as the leader well, and although made a lot of decisions his performance made you care for him and understand why he made those decisions in the first place. Lou Taylor Pucci who received rave reviews for his role in the film Thumbsucker is pretty good as Pine's younger brother. He's naïve and frightened but steps up to the plate at the end. Piper Perabo is also pretty good as Pine's girlfriend and seems to be the only compassionate person with in the group. Emily VanCamp is ok, her character is really more of a third wheel, she doesn't really serve a purpose until three quarters of the way through. For the fist hour she seems to be there to just make up the numbers. Christopher Meloni is great as the father, desperately trying to keep his daughter alive, his performance shows us that if he loses his daughter he wouldn't want to carry on living. All in all a great cast that give great performances.
Directors Alex and David Pastor have a good hold on the direction and keep the scenes tight. It's shot with a sort of sepia tint to the picture to give the image a sun drenched look. The vistors of America a well shot and shows the world as an abandoned desolate wasteland. They're Script is also pretty good, good dialogue, good action and the film moves along at a good speed.
This is a good film, a film I think more people should see, and a good starting point for the Pastor brothers. When I viewed the film I thought of 28 Days/Weeks later minus the infected. This is great aftermath film and well worth a rent or a purchase....
FILM: 8/10
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