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Review: Quarantine
I had decided to make review threads specifically for films that deemed worthy. This film definitely is worthy; I feel like I have sinned and this is my private confession.
My sister and brother-in-law decided they'd like to see a movie and invited my girlfriend and I. They told us to meet them at the movie theatre and we'd decided on a movie there. I hate doing this because you're usually left with some of the worst options. I quickly checked online and realized Body of Lies was going to play at 11 and it was already 10pm. On my way, they told me Body of Lies was at 11:40, so our only option was Quarantine. I decided since they invited us, I shouldn't bother arguing. I should have held a fight, actually.
I had only seen minor previews and heard a few sentences about this movie. As we sat down, I quickly realized there was a baby in the movie theatre. Yes, a baby. Probably a year old, who had just started walking. Who in the world would bring a baby to a movie theatre? The bad part? He/She was directly in back of me and began standing up and shaking my chair and touching me. Great parenting! The child's first film is... this.
After the baby started crying and yelling, I thought to myself, "Great, this baby is going to ruin this film!" The baby didn't have to because the movie did that for itself.
Quarantine is the type of movie I wouldn't wish on someone I hate to see. Surprisingly, the film is 89 minutes but I could have sworn it was an hour or two longer. This movie isn't even a movie. It's what my film professor calls the "unsteady cam" being used throughout every single second of the movie. We open with a young female news reporter who is on a "field trip" to a fire station. When a call is made in the middle of the night, we follow them to an apartment in Los Angeles. We discover a woman on the second floor is "biting" tenants and shortly thereafter one or two people get injured. As they try to rush them to a hospital, they realize police have locked them inside the building and they become trapped. The sad part is we're dealing with rabies. This movie quickly turns into a gore-fest as "zombie-like" creatures rush at the camera. Unfortunately, the camera is bouncing around so much, we only see their legs/parts of their face until we plummit down and the camera is yet again flipped over like a horrible rollercoaster.
The film is ultimately too dark/too bouncy to even realize what is going on. I cringed when the man killed an infected tenant with his camera. Not because it was gruesome, but because the audience actually clapped! I quickly shouted, "People are actually clapping for this?!" The film lacks plot which is an understatement. I wish I could speak about the acting but apparently there is none. The dialogue is poorly written -- if there even was a script. It seems like a bunch of college kids grabbed a camera and threw a film together. How it received so much attention is beyond me; probably because of the one or two visual scenes they used in the trailer. For every other scene, it's too difficult to see what is going on. This movie is a lame attempt at "Cabin Fever" which is ultimately the same exact story. Suddenly, the baby was the least of my worries and scared me more when she hit my chair than this film ever did.
Save your money, save your dignity, save your patience. If you want to kill yourself, see this movie. It's almost as bad as The Wicker Man, but that was much slower and made me seriously contemplate suicide. Don't see this film, I feel guilty for contributing to the opening weekend which ultimately beat out Body of Lies.
My sister and brother-in-law decided they'd like to see a movie and invited my girlfriend and I. They told us to meet them at the movie theatre and we'd decided on a movie there. I hate doing this because you're usually left with some of the worst options. I quickly checked online and realized Body of Lies was going to play at 11 and it was already 10pm. On my way, they told me Body of Lies was at 11:40, so our only option was Quarantine. I decided since they invited us, I shouldn't bother arguing. I should have held a fight, actually.
I had only seen minor previews and heard a few sentences about this movie. As we sat down, I quickly realized there was a baby in the movie theatre. Yes, a baby. Probably a year old, who had just started walking. Who in the world would bring a baby to a movie theatre? The bad part? He/She was directly in back of me and began standing up and shaking my chair and touching me. Great parenting! The child's first film is... this.
After the baby started crying and yelling, I thought to myself, "Great, this baby is going to ruin this film!" The baby didn't have to because the movie did that for itself.
Quarantine is the type of movie I wouldn't wish on someone I hate to see. Surprisingly, the film is 89 minutes but I could have sworn it was an hour or two longer. This movie isn't even a movie. It's what my film professor calls the "unsteady cam" being used throughout every single second of the movie. We open with a young female news reporter who is on a "field trip" to a fire station. When a call is made in the middle of the night, we follow them to an apartment in Los Angeles. We discover a woman on the second floor is "biting" tenants and shortly thereafter one or two people get injured. As they try to rush them to a hospital, they realize police have locked them inside the building and they become trapped. The sad part is we're dealing with rabies. This movie quickly turns into a gore-fest as "zombie-like" creatures rush at the camera. Unfortunately, the camera is bouncing around so much, we only see their legs/parts of their face until we plummit down and the camera is yet again flipped over like a horrible rollercoaster.
The film is ultimately too dark/too bouncy to even realize what is going on. I cringed when the man killed an infected tenant with his camera. Not because it was gruesome, but because the audience actually clapped! I quickly shouted, "People are actually clapping for this?!" The film lacks plot which is an understatement. I wish I could speak about the acting but apparently there is none. The dialogue is poorly written -- if there even was a script. It seems like a bunch of college kids grabbed a camera and threw a film together. How it received so much attention is beyond me; probably because of the one or two visual scenes they used in the trailer. For every other scene, it's too difficult to see what is going on. This movie is a lame attempt at "Cabin Fever" which is ultimately the same exact story. Suddenly, the baby was the least of my worries and scared me more when she hit my chair than this film ever did.
Save your money, save your dignity, save your patience. If you want to kill yourself, see this movie. It's almost as bad as The Wicker Man, but that was much slower and made me seriously contemplate suicide. Don't see this film, I feel guilty for contributing to the opening weekend which ultimately beat out Body of Lies.
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