Title: The Crazies (2010)Starring: Timothy Olyphant, Radha Mitchell, Joe Anderson
Directed By: Breck Eisner
What kind of movie is this supposed to be? Take any 10 minutes by themselves and you might not know. At times it's a survival horror movie with a zombie spin, but then sometimes it's more of a smaller feeling character study, and then all of a sudden it's a political thriller. I think had the filmmakers made up their minds they may actually have had something here. Perhaps they should have toned it down a little and gone for the PG-13. Who knows? What we get as is though, is a muddled, "wishy-washy", forgettable film.
Basic plotline: a "virus" starts turning the inhabitants of a small town into mindless, violent killers. At least at first it does. As the movie progresses, the "zombies" get more and more people-like. Apparently some of them can use weapons, and then some of them can talk, and then some of them are the EXACT same as they were when they were people just with purple veins visible on their faces. It's never really explained exactly how this stuff works on its victims. We find out the how, the who, the why and the when but never the what.
I can see this movie becoming one of those over-looked Halloween repeat viewings that people swear by in years to come. But for now, it's mostly forgettable and a little too all-over-the-place for me.
Score: 6/10
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