Whorticulture Reviews Quarantine 2
Hello Freaks. This weekend I sat through Quarantine 2, based on a request I received in my last post. I'm late to the party AS USUAL, so I think a lot of you have seen this already. In any case, here's what I thought.
You probably know that the original Quarantine was basically a mirror image of the Spanish film REC, and you might know that I ranked REC 2 as one of the best horror movies I've ever seen. Sadly, whoever came up with Quarantine 2 decided to say a big FUCK YOU to the glory that is the REC series and go a totally different way with this sequel.
First off, I want to point out that this movie is NOT a found footage film. I know I've been bagging on ff a lot lately, but when it's done well I can't hate. But why follow an ff movie with this? It's just a movie about a bunch of people on a plane out of Los Angeles, taking place concurrently with the original Quarantine.
In the original Quarantine it's assumed that all of this mess starts because of some super-rabies virus, and that's confirmed here. Apparently the residents of the apartment building were unwilling test subjects for this super-virus and it got out of hand LIKE IT ALWAYS DOES. And there you go. That, my friends, is horrendously inferior to the plot of REC2.
If you see this, keep all thoughts of REC2 out of your mind. I think that's what ruined this for me, because it was just so goddamn inferior I couldn't enjoy it. On it's own I think it's decent. Maybe a 7 out of 10 (but more like a 6 on a good day). The acting is mediocre at times - I found the chemistry between the two flight attendants awkward and unbelievable - but the suspense is pretty tight through the whole thing. Maybe that's just because I'm a big wuss when it comes to flying. A super turbulent emergency landing? Yeah I can't with that mess. It's fairly claustrophobic, so it's got that going for it. I thought I would care more when the characters died but I mostly just meh'd through the whole thing. Oh, and it went heavier on the gore this round, and while I'm usually a big fan of that, it didn't seem like a good fit.
So at the end you find out that they've made it to McCarran, Las Vegas's airport. It's totally set up for a third and PLEASE YOU GUYS DON'T DO IT. I could not give less of a fuck about these "zombies" invading Vegas, so let's just not and say we did, ok?
In short: I expected to hate it more than I did, it was pretty mediocre, and everyone should just go watch REC2 instead.
6/10 - Tell me what you think!
I found the whole thing boring. I was kind of happy when most of the characters died. The only one I really felt bad for was the baggage handler guy.
ReplyDeleteI felt like a lot f parts were predictable, and the characters were unlikable.
Also, they seemed to skip over a lot of the deaths of some of the super important guys. It was seriously like "oh yeah, he died" and that was lame.