A pity

Rating: 5/10 (27 May 2009)

This was a promising film with a tragic flaw that ruined it for me. One of the movie's central conceits is so dumb it makes suspension of disbelief impossible. I don't mean zombie-ism, of which I am a huge fan (I know, how can I have a problem with other dumb central conceits and not the existence of zombies, but still...). Here's the problem -- spoiler alert! The central authority's response to a potential new outbreak of the plague, spread by personal contact, is to force people to leave their secure, locked apartments and gather in a giant room with multiple access points. Not even the government is that stupid. Without that, you have no new outbreak and no movie.