My Poor Brain

The early trailers for this movie looked promising to me. I like a movie with a chick who kicks ass, and Rhona Mitra as the lead looked pretty hott with that sword. Then the plot comes out: a virus, called the Reaper Virus, starts spreading and eventually leads to a quarantine of Scotland. Then survivors are seen and a team is sent in to find the cure. Sound familiar?My speculations going into the movie was that the story, dialogue, and anything relating would be recycled garbage, and that the action would be the only entertaining parts of the movie. I was pretty much right. Anytime they were explaining what happened or people were talking it was just boring. There was also this terrible music, I think it was partly the theater’s fault, but the music was louder than the talking and it got really annoying quickly.

When the action finally started it got entertaining. Not the best action I’ve seen, but it was still fun for what it was. The main female character, Sinclair, was pretty awesome the whole time. The crazy bad guy with the Mohawk was another entertaining factor.

The people that were infected were really nothing new either, all bubbly face and bloody and crazy. JUST SHOOT EM IN THE HEAD!

Another thing that I didn’t like was Sinclair had this stupid little eyeball thing. She lost her eyeball as a kid in the beginning of the movie, and now it’s some weird camera that retains its eyeball form. She can take it out of her eye socket as she wishes. It just annoyed the fuck out of me that someone thought that was a cool idea:

“She loses her eyeball right? Follow me guys, follow me here…so in the FUTURE, she can just pull it out of her head and place it on the floor FOLLOW ME GUYS! She has a screen on her watch to see what’s going on right? When she’s done using it, she just POPS THAT FUCKER BACK IN THERE!”

This movie accomplished what it needed to MOSTLY, which was entertain us with a chick kicking ass. I suggest only go see it if you have nothing else to do. I give this a 2 out of 5.