Quarantine The Movie: Sucks!!!!

Last night, we went for a late night movie at 1Borneo with my sister, Kirstin, my brother Aaron and my 2 cousins, Nazarius and Ronnie. My brother insisted that we all watch Quarantine. Off we went to get some tickets and lots of goodies to munch in the cinema (there goes my dinner!). The movie, Quarantine is supposed to be like this: (I got this synopsis from a website)

Television reporter Angela Vidal (Jennifer Carpenter) and her cameraman (Steve Harris) are assigned to spend the night shift with a Los Angeles Fire Station. After a routine 911 call takes them to a small apartment building, they find police officers already on the scene in response to blood curdling screams coming from one of the apartment units. They soon learn that a woman living in the building has been infected by something unknown. After a few of the residents are viciously attacked, they try to escape with the news crew in tow, only to find that the CDC has quarantined the building. Phones, internet, televisions and cell phone access have been cut-off, and officials are not relaying information to those locked inside. When the quarantine is finally lifted, the only evidence of what took place is the news crew's videotape.

Well, here's the truth of the movie that I saw last night:

The movie started just like that, where the cameraman and the television reporter were filming outside the fire station, then there is a series of lots of talking, and talking, and talking...all nonsense things doing a documentary (I think Anthoney Bourdain or Ian Wright can do better). Then after the long agony of waiting, suddenly there is a 911 call to an apartment where the firemen responded and the TV crew were following them. (This is when the part where you see the screen moving all around, worst than any 'cetak rompak' VCD/DVD).

So, they were attending one of the old residents there, who behave weirdly and start biting one of the guys who tried to attend her, and when they are bringing the injured guy to the lobby of the apartment, out of no where, one of the firemen dropped from one of the floors of the apartment. Everyone screamed, everyone yelled at each other and the screen keeps on turning here and there (the movie was filmed through the TV crew's video camera.) - at this partI had stopped eating my popcorn cause it starts to make me feel sick. There are some parts of this movie where I can dozed off for a second or two cause it's too boring!!!!

Guess what, the authorities came, but sealed the apartment from the outside, not allowing them to go anywhere (we didn't see any key person outside). So whoever that is, they didn't allow these poor people going out for no apparent reason. Owh, also there are few more residents who were trying to escape from the window were shot from a supposedly sniper.

Then, there goes the series of the remaining residents there turn into zombies, (that gives the shrieking screams and look exactly like the ones you saw in Zombie or Resident Evil) killing each and everyone of the people there, with one dog or two appeared here and there. The TV crew, how can I not forget, there are lots of crying, screaming, running and hey, they can even kill the zombie with his camera!

So, as the movie goes, there were only 2 supposedly survivors left - the TV reporter and her cameraman. They went to the basement, found a series of documents that supposed to lead to the answer of the question "Why things goes wrong?" at the first place. Then, came the last zombie (supposedly), clad in underwear, frantically throw things aside here and there, got the cameraman. Unlike the other zombie killings, this time it's fast and suddenly it went quiet. When the reporter took the camera, viewed around here using the night vision mode, found her friend already became the zombie's meal. She ran frantically, tripped and fell on the ground, and as she wanted to reach to the camera again, was pulled into the darkness, screamed and that's the end of the show.

On the way home, I noticed few things about this movie:

- There is no soundtrack, background music or whatsoever;
- We don't know what the hell goes on for the people outside the building (cause they promised they will come inside and see what's wrong 'later')
- There's only a handful of actors and actresses;
- It's some kind like a remake for Cloverfield, only that it's much more worst.

I give it 1 out of 5 stars. It's the worst movie ever in year 2008.