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Carriers (2009)

September. 04,2009
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PG-13
| Drama Horror Action Thriller

A deadly virus has spread across the globe. Contagion is everywhere, no one is safe, and no one can be trusted. Four friends race through the back roads of the American West on their way to a secluded utopian beach in the Gulf of Mexico where they could peacefully wait out the pandemic. Their plans take a grim turn when their car breaks down on an isolated road starting a chain of events that will seal their fates.

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Cubussoli
2009/09/04

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

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FuzzyTagz
2009/09/05

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

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Erica Derrick
2009/09/06

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

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Rosie Searle
2009/09/07

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

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Mikelikesnotlikes
2009/09/08

Carriers is nothing special but it would make a reasonable addition to the apocalypse shelf of your collection. It fits in the psychological/drama side of the genre and explores how two young couples deal with losing everything in the world they know.I found the premise and plot progression basic and fairly realistic. I don't know if people who have been exposed to the horrors of a pandemic would be as stable as these 4 acted, but the young are nothing if not resilient.Possibly the hardest thing to believe was Brian ditching Bobby almost on the spur of the moment when they find out she is infected. I felt it could have been portrayed differently. I get that they are all adjusting to abnormal societal expectations and responses, but to heartlessly ditch someone who you've shared your mind and body with would be very difficult.Overall it's a pretty good, honest movie with just enough action to keep it moving. Be warned though, it is very slow.

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Igor Henrique
2009/09/09

The post-apocalyptic atmosphere around "Carriers" makes us remind The Walking Dead, even though its focus is a little bit different in relation to the series, once there isn't any zombie featured in. Besides that, spectators have to take in account that plot is mainly centered on the decisions in which characters have to make in face of hard situations featured throughout the movie, what is a clear evidence we are faced with a dramatic thriller and not necessarily a horror movie. It's even unknown, for example, where the virus came from and how outbreak really ends. In fact, the movie's greatest aspect is that it makes us reflect, in a realistic way, on how it'd be if people actually had to live in a post- apocalyptic world, without government, social organization or even food. And what about familiar and sentimental ties? Luckily, author of the film leaves out any fictional, boring and overused Zombie theme. Besides that, Road movies are always welcome and this is surely one of best out of 'em.

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ma-cortes
2009/09/10

Intrigue, intense drama , action and suspense film about a deadly and rapacious virus spread by means of infection and contagion . This interesting film is set a few years from now, a dangerous, desolate world of the future where a virus outbreaks , annihilates population and there rules the strongest law . As four friends fleeing a viral pandemic soon learn they are more dangerous than any virus . They are : Brian (Chris Pine) , his girlfriend Bobby (Piper Perabo) , his brother Danny (Lou Taylor Pucci) and their friend, Kate (Emily VanCamp) . Their rules are simple , you break them, you die ... They take extreme necessary measures to stop the rapacious epidemic . When their car breaks down on the road and stranded in desert they agree a covenant with a man named Frank (Christopher Meloni) who carries his ill little daughter (Shipka) . The virus expands rapidly and they look for a doctor (Mark Moses) who has found a healing potion .Suspense thriller that deals with an intense drama , a special relationship among two brothers and intrigue about a deadly virus is spread by contagion . The pictures results to be a metaphor for AIDS panic in the same way that 50s extraterrestrial films mirrored fears of Red Menace . Nice performance for a promising all-star-cast as Chris Pine , future ¨Star Trek's captain Kirk¨ , Piper Perabo of ¨Covert affairs¨ , Emily VanCamp of ¨Revenge¨ and Christopher Meloni of ¨Law and order¨. Colorful and appropriate cinematography by Benoît Debie . Stirring and adequate musical score by Peter Nashel . Good direction by Pastor Brothers who do have its thrilling moments , most of them in the first half , though the second half being mostly dramatic and tragic . The motion picture was compellingly realized by David and Alex Pastor . They offer us an intelligent flick of the apocalyptic world movie, intimate and committed . This one resulted to be their first film and David and Alex Pastor Brothers have directed in 2013 ,¨The Last days¨ , with Quim Gutierrez , Jose Coronado , Marta Etura ; also dealing with a strange virus in which humanity develops an irrational fear of open that causes instant death , as the world population is trapped inside buildings and Barcelona descends into chaos . ¨Carriers¨ rating : Better than average . Well worth watching .

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Leofwine_draca
2009/09/11

I'm a huge fan of post-apocalypse movies, so CARRIERS was a given: a deadly airborne virus, a car full of survivors struggling to survive in a desperate and lonely world…yada yada yada, let's get moving with it. Unfortunately for me, Carriers turns out to be dead in the water. It's a soulless, pointless, plot less little exercise in human drama that offers nothing new and goes absolutely nowhere with it.It does start off mildly interesting, as our protagonists (four twentysomething friends) stumble across a father caring for his infected daughter. There are genuine moments of tension along the way with this sub-plot, and you watch wondering how things turn out. Sadly, this plot is jettisoned after a time, and the storyline develops no further. Instead, the film seems content to dwell on listless moments of inanity. The characters sit around drinking or knock golf balls through windows (Fight Club this ain't). They argue, have sex, and have a run-in with some completely generic guys-in-biohazard-suits who seem to show up in every film like this. It all ends in an overblown, mountain-out-of-a-molehill climax that seems to think it's powerfully shocking when, in fact, it's quite simply passé.It seems that American films have lately got stuck in a rut, casting their movies with obnoxious characters (I'm thinking of CHRONICLE) who spoil what have the potential to be otherwise good movies. Certainly, Chris Pine is one of the most unappealing leads I've seen in a while (he acts as pretty much the same type of one-dimensional hot-headed jerk that he played in STAR TREK) and the rest barely get a look in; Emily Van Camp, who might well be the best actor present, has about all of ten lines to contend with.Like I said, I love post-apocalypse movies…but this non-starter is nothing more than a test of patience.

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