I got this in my Blockbuster queue a week ago and just didn't have the strength to write a review. A really cool concept that just wasn't explored to the degree it should have. Imagine, a world-wide phenomena and you only explore a paltry few characters. There's a signal broadcast across all televisions and if you stare at it too long, you'll go crazy. Not just any crazy, but a rational, even conversational crazy sometimes as you maim and dismember anyone within arms reach.
That's how this movie starts out when the woman (I don't have the energy to look up the names of the characters) comes home after sleeping with her lover to find her husband entertaining some buddies. Her husband beans one of the guys for almost hitting her with a baseball bat and then proceeds to bash in his head. The other buddy restrains him and she runs out to see some guy chopping people's throats with a pair of hedge clippers.
And then it goes downhill.
The movie is told in 3 segments, the 2nd one being the weakest in which the entire story is told from inside an apartment without even a hint as to the chaos going on outside. Then in the last segment when characters have cause to go outside they are met with virtually NO opposition, no throngs of the teeming mad they have to struggle through to get to where they are going. I don't want to blow the whole film so the only other thing I want to add is people, normal and crazy, are for some strange reason extremely hard to kill. This film begs for a sequel if only to develop the ball dropped that is the semi-original concept.
They passed an old woman who was just opening the door of a brown Cadillac. An old man was already sitting in the passenger seat. The car had a personalized plate with the letters “J-U-S-P-R-A-Y”.
“That stuff work?” Israel said to her.
“‘Scuse me?” the little old woman said, clutching her keys.
“The spray. Does it keep them away?”
“Keep who away?” She looked confused.
“I gotcha.” Israel gave her a conspiratorial wink.
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