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Pandemic (2016)

February. 26,2016
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4.4
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PG-13
| Horror Action Science Fiction

After a virus of epic proportions overwhelms the planet—with more infected than uninfected—humanity is losing its grip on survival and its only hope is finding a cure and keeping the infected contained. Lauren, a doctor, arrives in Los Angeles with her crack team to lead the hunt for uncontaminated civilian survivors, but nothing can prepare them for the blood-soaked mayhem they witness as they head into the Californian streets where everything is considered a trap.

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KnotMissPriceless
2016/02/26

Why so much hype?

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VeteranLight
2016/02/27

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

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ShangLuda
2016/02/28

Admirable film.

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Odelecol
2016/02/29

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

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if_only_the_earth_were_round
2016/03/01

Arguably the 4.6 Pandemic (2016) has on IMDB is a little harsh, though really it is to expected. Whilst it is a much better stab at the Zombie slasher than many attempts, it is confusing, nauseating and a gross waste of evident budget and acting calibre. However, this film makes big claims and so has to watched at least. The case states the following: 'Pandemic is like nothing you have ever witnessed before. Shot in a completely revolutionary 'First Person Perspective' Pandemic makes YOU the star of the movie. YOU fire every shot and YOU throw every punch.' 'The only hope for a cure is for YOU to lead a team into the field to rescue survivors...' It would appear that whoever wrote this back of the case blurb was unaware of two vitally important things 1) Lady in the Lake (1947) and 2) what actually happens in Pandemic. Indeed, the very same technique was employed by Robert Montgomery in his ambitious, brilliant, but painfully flawed Lady in the Lake. Shot in 1947, when the uninterrupted use of a subjective camera was actually 'revolutionary', Montgomery invites 'You' to solve a murder mystery with him as the camera takes the place of detective Montgomery. Therefore, and regardless of what the packaging says, Pandemic is not revolutionary in the slightest, and anyone ignorant of the history in his field would be well advised to band about terms such as 'revolutionary' with extreme caution. Moreover, some knowledge of what had preceded Pandemic would have seen improvements in the product manifest beyond its cover, as the film itself exhibits many of the flaws suffered by the sibling 69 years its senior. One of the main problems (of which there were many) faced by Lady in the Lake is the strange position the audience finds itself in. We are to solve a mystery with Montgomery, and yet we find ourselves, visually at least, in place of Montgomery. We are neither Montgomery nor not Montgomery, we are seeing what he is seeing, yet overtly aware of not seeing him. We have his eyes, sometimes his hands, but we are with him and not him. It is a confusing relationship held between Lady in the Lake and its audience, one which resulted in unfair dismissal of the subjective camera by many critics, and a fairer though unfortunate dismissal of the film. All that said, at least the 'You' in Lady in the Lake meant us, and whilst there may have been confusion with our relationship to Montgomery and his co-stars, we were still 'us' and free to figure all that out for ourselves. Pandemic and its premise however bring about a new level of confusion regarding the 'You' and the 'I' of its attempted sharing of subjective experience. The 'You' referred to so excitedly on the cover of Pandemic explicitly indicates that 'I' am to lead a team into the field to rescue survivors, the product of such an excursion somehow being a cure for the infection that earned the film its name. Holes in the concept become immediately apparent when 'I' am a camera in a smart phone looking at female protagonist Dr. Lauren Case. Granting benefit of the doubt, one is able to excuse this odd occurrence as it is Dr. Case' phone and the film uses personal cameras to obtain its footage. However things become undeniably farcical when 'I' become a cantankerous drill sergeant staring at Dr. Case as 'I' complain about something, not even wearing the odd apparatus that contains the personal camera. And the farce gains momentum as 'I' become an array of cctv cameras, an angry colleague, a dead colleague, another colleague, sometimes I don't even know what 'I' am as a result of crazed cutting and bizarre content, though I am certainly not leading a team into a field of any kind. At least I don't think 'I' am. By the time the film had ended I wished that 'I' had fallen victim to the infection early on in the saga and escaped lightly with an early death, as I feel the brain damage suffered by a 'level 5' would have damaged my brain far less than trying to make sense of what Pandemic presented before me. A few cool shots, a few interesting ideas, but ultimately trite and stupid.

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contact-86263
2016/03/02

I think people are being unduly harsh. The film is ok and worth watching. It's predictable (I predicted the time and manner of death of the main cast accurately) and some of the effects leave something to be desired (compare, for example, These Final Hours which had a super low budget and yet managed to produce some quite good effects).I wish they'd explored the Level 5 infected a bit more. The warehouse scene indicated there was more to them, but unfortunately this aspect was not explored further.

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Lunaroseice
2016/03/03

This movies is not as bad as people are saying. It isn't a good movie. But it is watchable. It has an interesting, if basic, plot. The acting is actually pretty good for what they were given. Slightly shaky camera work but better than something like Blair Witch which made me so ill to watch that I gave up early on. But in this case, the idea is that the camera is on the helmet and should move with the person. So it makes sense. The frustration with this film is that it is so easy to see that it could be made into a film that is much better. The real problem seems to be the dialogue. Improve that, and the 'zombie' acting, then movie would really step up. Even so, like I said, a bad movie but a very watchable movie.

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morrison-dylan-fan
2016/03/04

Over the weekend I asked a family friend if there were any Horror flicks that he was after. Being a bit of a regular gamer,I was intrigued to hear from him about a zombie flick made to look like a First Person Shooter (FPS) which led to me getting set to examine the pandemic. The plot:Retreating to a safe zone as the world falls to a zombie virus,the last remaining humans only venture out of the zone to find food and search for other survivors. Put together as a new group after the arrival of Dr. Lauren Chase, Gunner, Denise,Wheeler and Chase herself are sent out to find survivors. Going to a school reported to be housing survivors,the gang soon find themselves having to take on the zombies and become first person shooters.View on the film:Using anything at hand against the bloodthirsty zombies, director John Suits & cinematographer Mark Putnam crunch the buttons with long lines of dark corridors being lit in lone torchlight which sharply captures the anxiety/excitement of turning round a corridor in a video game. Smartly having one male/female camera-person work the camera to represent the male/female character, Suits brilliantly places the viewer in the deadly world with highly stylish shots that gather pace as the group try to outrun the undead. Shooting any zombie who steps into frame down in first person, Suits unleashes a wave of thrilling Action Horror that slams the zombies against the eerie pristine backdrop in a cinematic pulp of bullets,knife and axing gore.Keeping the motives for the gang streamlined,the screenplay by Dustin T. Benson cleverly opens up Video game-style locations (such as a school/house) to give the gang a playground where the first person shooter become the walking dead.

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