Too many stupid story blunders

Rating: 3/10 (11 May 2007)

Terrific potential unrealized here, as a possibly good apocalypse story was ruined by stupid storytelling/film-making. Like this.....an unbelievably dumb military mistake caused all the later problems for civilization after the virus problem had been totally contained. The rage virus had been contained, yes, but through its moronic mistake the military allowed the virus out to ravage the world again, this time probably for good.
Others have detailed the film story so I'm not going to; I am going to critique it hard as it sure deserves it.
The unrealistic story mistake that ruined everything was: why wasn't the infected wife guarded AT ALL BY ANYONE after she was diagnosed with the virus and strapped down on a gurney in a supposedly "secure" quarantine room. Her uninfected husband walked unseen right into her room, no guards anywhere, and was promptly infected by his wife's kiss.... The possible end of humanity if she escaped and NO GUARDS ANYWHERE GUARDING HER to prevent it? Have I made that goof entirely clear?
The newly-infected husband then ran right out of the entire building with no one at all seeing him, or anything! Incredible, and so stupid as to be beyond belief. But, I guess it had to happen to keep the filmmaker's senseless mayhem going but it should have been done much smarter, like have the husband sneak past guards going in or overpower and infect the guards coming out or at least something halfway smart! I lost all interest at that dumb point and knew it would be a stupid film. It was.
After the mistake that probably ended the world later, the military decides it would be real smart to lay total waste to the entire city to kill all the people infected by the husband AFTER he escaped due to the military's dumb mistake. It was made very clear that the military is good at killing lots of people(innocent and uninfected victims were also killed)afterward but it can't guard a single infected one properly. This showed what the military does best... kill, as it sure didn't use any brainpower(military intelligence?) to prevent lots of killing later.
More totally stupid things: the infected husband follows his kids around London as they run this way and that trying to escape the infected ones, but then he tries to infect them as soon as he gets a chance. What happened to the father's suggested paternal instinct(why would he follow ONLY them?) but that hope was cheaply sacrificed for the sake of infecting his son to ruin the world later, and then he got shot by his daughter as he tried to infect her. Another bad decision by the filmmaker was that the soldier leading the escape group to supposed safety couldn't shoot any more civilians due to moral problems with it, but he could readily kill his own soldier comrade without a problem to help the group escape? What happened to his morals there? This film story was so dumb, purely in order to move the horror along no matter how unreasonable it was..."just make it scary, don't worry if it's stone dumb, they'll never know the difference"! There were other mile wide holes in the story I could tell, but you get the picture of how bad it was.
This was a dumb movie made for and by dopes, with easily seen, gaping holes in its gaping holes, as it pushed the same gory sensationalism scene after scene with no attempt at good, intelligent and tight storytelling. Forget it, and quickly. Just awful. If this is what passes for smart entertainment with the youth of today, God help us.