Road Rage on Speed

Rating: 5/10 (12 October 2007)

The comments on this movie are as diverse as night and day. But I tend toward night. What is it with all the dark lately? Was also not really impressed with the cameo-style camera work blurring edges so we have a limited view. And all that shaky camera stuff which should bear a warning not to be watched by people sensitive to this eye aching, brain jarring style. Far too manic for me and I kept thinking about the rage that was inside these people and wondering why they didn't blow up. As others have said the first movie was scary in its silences. Anticipation can get your stomach churning. The first one was so reality based, well acted and well scripted. This second movie was just a screaming fest full of jarring movements and noise. Yes it was unreal that London was to be repopulated in such a short space of time. Or was that a experimental plot, commissioned by some scientist from above. Conspiracy theories? Maybe I am giving them too much credit,but who knows as we are told very little. Robert Carlyle was amazing as the father/husband, who for all of the love he professed for his wife, left her with very little hesitation to save his own neck. Then lied to his children about what had happened. He sure got his worse fear answered. I did find it interesting that he was/became so super intelligent as to be able to be one jump ahead of his family and away from all attempts to blow him up by the army. Clever Boy! I liked the army guy who tried to improve the situation rather than slaughtering all en masse. Pity! Some of the effects where good, but effects for me are getting a little tiring, rather a good story like the first one. And if the boy was immune then......... Think I shall go and meditate now. All this rage is getting to me