Why does it feel like nothing happens in this film?

Rating: 3/10 (22 September 2007)

Wow, the same thing happened to me as Russell. I thought it was gonna be dire, then I got sucked in by the reviews and because of all the input by Doyle, Alex Garland and the fact that Doyle had apparently hand picked the replacement director my mind was changed. But I'm afraid this is as far as my similarities to Russell go. I really didn't like this film. I loved the first one. This one just didn't make any sense to me. There were definitely amazing visuals and great action. And, yes, I can see that there was a political under current about how governments treat people and how the military is made to act by politicians etc etc. But I don't really care. There was no actual real story there. What was this film actually about?! It felt like nothing really happened in this film and it just jumped from set piece to set piece. Non of the actors needed to be there as they did bugger all! I think it would have been a lot more enjoyable and wasted a lot less of some probably decent actors time if they had just had a load of infected running around and soldier shooting the crap out of them (and burning them and blowing them up and gassing them etc). I have so many questions that will go unanswered. Nothing that anyone did in this movie makes any sense. their actions emotions and ides are all completely baffling. This movie made me feel totally unconnected and unable to empathize with any of the characters. There is usually at least one in even the worst films that I can understand. So this film has at least accomplished this, something that not many films can do.