A total contrivance...

Rating: 4/10 (10 June 2007)

I finally got around to watching this and I think it was built up too much in my head before I went to see it because I couldn't help but be disappointed. The movie is a contrivance and relies on fairly intelligent, career minded people doing really dumb and career ending things. In the real world, people are mostly cogs in the machine and keep their personal welfare and career in mind before taking an action that could end the first and certainly end the second. The kids I can understand as kids are ultimately selfish, adventurous and often don't recognize danger to themselves.
I won't even go into all the military goofs as they are well documented on IMDb. But don't for one second expect me to believe the US military is repopulating Great Britain without a civilian administrative overwatch, most likely composed of members of the British government (they have emergency contingencies for government officials just like the US does) and US bureaucrats. It's also certain that British troops would be in command and only augmented by NATO troops. Even if every soldier on the island was killed (unlikely), Britain doesn't keep all of it's military at home. There would still be the Royal Navy, Army, Air Force and Marines abroad that would be recalled and put in charge of the homeland. The military aren't really made out to be the bad guys but it's certainly an easy conclusion and many people have made it. The military executes political decisions, they wouldn't have decided to repopulate the island, wouldn't have decided to allow children, wouldn't have been the ones to create a Code Red solution and wouldn't be the ones to make the decision to execute Code Red unless no civilian authorization was possible. All in all, while the movie didn't make the military the villains, it didn't exactly paint a nice picture of them.
Speaking of Code Red... all contagious diseases spread quickest when people are in confined spaces. Emergency plans for small pox outbreaks, and whatnot, do not crowd everyone into a single building, they rely on keeping people at home. The civilians all lived in condos, the best, best possible thing you could do would be to send them to their apartments and have them lock the door. Those buildings could essentially be fortresses. Then the entrance could be defended and the military would have time to hunt down and exterminate the infected which would only number a few because people wouldn't be out roaming in masses. If an infected got inside the building, the number of victims would be very small and again the military could patrol the hallways and shoot down any infected.