I was looking forward to a traditional horror film with lots of gore, but this film takes things more seriously. There’s a lot of shaky camera footage to block out the squeamish bits. There’s also some plot holes and a lot of unnecessary travelling that could have been resolved by phone calls since communications were still in place. It’s a shame that the action is focused around one central character who just happened to be a former U.N investigator, and for a global disaster it would have been better to focus on groups of people who would somehow reunite at the end. Was Israel hoping to inherit the earth by not advertising their intentions to protect their people? Do we live in that harsh a world? It certainly seems so from the intro of the film. That said, there are some genius ideas like a plane invasion in the cabin, which is ruined by typical Hollywood survival odds. It would have been interesting if one of the characters turned slowly. My favourite moment is when the zombies form a human pyramid when the humans inside the compound get overconfident in their survival. There’s a good eerie soundtrack that disguises the typical zombie moan with an air of background suspense.
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