Pandemic (2009)

Very well executed

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

1 out of 10, because I can't give it a lower rating.The cinematography is brutally awful. The script ... OK I can't even call it a script. The acting does its level best, but the script doesn't make any sense.The close captioning / subtitles are the worst ever.The soundtrack is up and down, loud and soft, and the music has nothing to do with the movie except this is somewhere in the region of the country where the music is supposed to fit - only it doesn't.The military is ridiculously portrayed, absolutely horrific, an embarrassment to the actual men and women who serve.Just ... do not waste your time. I would like that hour and a half of my life back.

Throughout the intro of the movie I immediately noticed that the producer just loved extended and stretched shots, I guess to fill up the movie. We see a man riding a horse for about 2 or 3 minutes, ending up dead by a lethal virus.Immediately after the incident, we see the young vet driving in her car for about 2 or 3 minutes.Then, we see the US army entering the small village for about 2 or 3 minutes.Not much later, we see the young vet driving through town, greeting everybody, again for about 2 or 3 minutes.What I'm trying to say that this horrible movie is so slow-paced, that you start to get bored instantaneously. I felt skipping those boring, long scenes or just play with my phone, because in large parts of the movie, nothing is really happening.There is no action throughout the movie and the movie could not grab me and let go of me, because the plot was so weak, there were no interesting dialogs as the acting was horrible and I was expecting to see "something" happen! But literally nothing happened. The vet was quite annoying with her big mouth and seemed to be the only resident of the village who actually stood up against the contamination of her village (imagine?? only the vet, not even the mayor).I was seduced by the cover of the movie and the title, hoping for an outbreak of a virus! But nowhere in the movie you can see a man in radioactive suit, or do we get to see dead people rising!I hope my review keeps people from viewing this lame movie, as it will ruin 1.5 hours of your time!

It's interesting that this movie is coming out in a time that there is evidence that the vaccine companies and governments of many countries may do something similar at any time. In Ukraine, they're spreading a deadly mutated virus not through the water but by spraying the air from airplanes. Like in the movie, governments are covering it up and not letting mainstream media talk mention it. One has to look at the alternative media on the internet and search pneumonic plague Ukraine to find this deadly pandemic that is infecting 200,000 people a day and is killing people similar to how they die in the movie - their lungs and nose fill up with blood and the lungs basically disintegrate (according to the doctors: total destruction of the lungs) and become black. So far, over a million people have become sick and although the "government" and "WHO" give the "official" number of people dead at 239 (since 10/31), doctors, who gave information to sources other than the official media, are saying that 100s are dying everyday if not more.

I only chose 1 out of 10 because there wasn't a .5 out of 10.I'll keep it simple. I want the 1 1/2 hours of my life back that I wasted watching this movie.The story line wasn't that bad, but the acting, directing and score (if you want to call it that) were pathetic.The beginning of the movie showed promise as was stated in an earlier review, but the script and the actors ruined it quickly.The music did not fit the movie. The cinematography was atrocious by continuing to show the same still frames seemingly just to fill space. Some parts of the movie were so dark you couldn't tell what was happening.Whoever mixed the sound for the movie should never be allowed to do that again. Some parts of the movie were loud; others were barely audible.