Carriers:
http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Carriers/70122722Sort of The Stand meets 28 Days Later. A quartet of uninfected folks, led by New Captain Kirk, are meandering through a ruined rural America on their way to a remote getaway where they plan to hold out from a disease that's destroyed civilization. Along the way, they pick up a father and his infected daughter.
It's tremendously flawed and I would have been pissed if I paid for it... But as a fun chapter in apocalypse stories (for the completist, I guess), it's worth watching.
Chris Pine and the dad (who I've seen a hundred times) are great. The rest of the cast is annoying and stupid. The writing is pretty awful, too. Mankind's been wiped out, so their plan is to go hide and wait for Mankind to be wiped out. Huh? And you go "huh" multiple times as they drive through deserted towns and countryside where, obviously, the disease is in the late stages and all civilization has ended.
But, whatever. It's not a thinking movie!
Where it is annoying is when these four who have obviously survived the worst of it do things that are contrary to that survival. Clearly they have some smarts, or just a basic survival instinct, and yet they can't go 20 minutes before one of them does something so stupid and exposes herself that you yell at the screen.
Chris Pine, weirdly, is enough of a force to keep you watching, though. Maybe it's the Kirk thing. That's saved his career. 40 years from now, he'll be doing Priceline commercials and we'll be laughing and saying Chris Pine is such a goof.
Also, they can't keep track of how the virus is spread. The opening monologue says that it's airborne, yet they don't seem to take that very seriously. Then we get the 28DL blood spitting (to a much less degree, it's not a rip off), so... blah.
If the writers or the actors don't want to be wearing masks all the time, or you want to write in interactions with diseased people and areas, then maybe say it isn't airborne. Like 28DL. Then you can run around infected places all you want.
But airborne virus = don't go to the corpse-filled emergency shelter to look around. Stay out of the roped off town. Fuck the father and kid. Fuck EVERYTHING! RUN!
