Pandemic Movie Review–Familiar Ground
Once again we’ve got a special super-secret advance preview for you, folks–today we’re talking about Pandemic, which will be available for you to see just in time for Halloween, October 27th. And though it will be familiar ground to say the least, you should still get something out of it.
Pandemic brings us a small town veterinarian who’s discovered something very odd about the local wildlife. It’s developing a particularly nasty bug that kills within hours (and not too many of them) of exposure. Worse, this bug not only does horrendous things to critters, it also does likewise to humans. And once the army gets wind of it, well, here we go on the trail to Quarantine Town, with stops in Eventually We’re Going to Commit Mass Murder Village. So now, our veterinarian is going to have to get to the bottom of all this and hopefully manage to get out alive in the process.
Yes, the comparisons between this and other pandemic titles like Outbreak and The Crazies and such will be so inevitable as to make most folks wonder what took them so long getting there, but they’re no less accurate for the inevitability. If you couldn’t get enough of scientist heroes, then Pandemic is going to be right up your alley. It’ll seem familiar, but this shouldn’t be interpreted as bad. They don’t seriously screw anything up here and play it all very strictly by the numbers.
Advance warning, however–this sucker could not be much more depressing if it tried. Of course, for those of you out there who believe that the United States government is actually capable of testing biological weapons on humanity, you’ll get a sort of cold vindication out of this movie.
The Screenhead Ten Scale hands Pandemic a six out of ten for a lot of unoriginal material, but for at least not bungling what it stole very hard.
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I rented this movie last night because the plot sounded good and the cover of the DVD even better. I almost turned off the movie in ten minutes. I have no idea how some films get distribution. It’s very disappointing because other Indy films are so great and never get distributed. Pandemic misleads you to rent it. The story is weak, the acting is absolutely horrible. I believed not one word that was said on the screen, not even from the name talent, which I would blame on either a bad director or a terrible script. But I believe it’s from a combo of the two. One of the most disappointing thing about the film is the quality. You don’t even have to look closely to see that the editor didn’t deinterlace the film so when there is any fast movement on screen you get tons of tiny horizontal lines. Come on guys! Take your time! Get your shit together and stop wasting peoples time and money!
sucks balls
I am actually watching this movie right now thinking, “Why did i pay $1.08 at redbox for this?” This is an extremely HORRIBLE movie. How can you spend the so much money on making a movie that strictly focuses on a red pick-up truck?!?! If you value 1 hour and 30 minutes of your life DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT watch this movie!!!
I am watching this movie right now and I regret ever going to red box and getting it. The military in this movie is no where believeable and terrible acting brought this movie. The disease itself made up some of the movie but overall it was pretty bad.
Horrible acting!
Movie moves slower than a turtle!
Why spend money on such poor quality movies!
Beware!
Watching this right now, and the only reason we still are is for the laughs. This movie is so bad it’s funny. So far we’ve spent about fifteen minutes overall watching completely pointless (and excessively long) driving scenes. The acting is awful and unbelievable. Unlike The Crazies, which we liked, Pandemic doesn’t establish any connection with the main characters before diving right into what they consider a plot. Lines are delivered with a blank face and relatively no expression. And call me crazy, but I’m almost positive they used the same clip of the main character hanging her head in her truck twice at two different parts of the movie.
Not worth the $1.08 at RedBox, unless you like the so-bad-it’s-almost-funny factor.