Technically well executed but about as realistic as Planet Terror

Rating: 3/10 (12 May 2007)

Typical zombie movie except that all of the zombies are now virus patients on crack. However, the movie contains major realism issues.
First of all, if the military went in there, all of the infected would be dead within minutes - not hours. Every sector would be well isolated, and protected not by half a dozen snipers, but by claymores, mines, chemical weapons, napalm weapons, and maybe automated turrets. All access points would be either bricked off or mined, and to top it all off a couple of brigades would be sitting around the sector with at least a .50 cal on every street. Bradleys (or at least humvees) would be used to patrol the streets. People would not be able to get out of the safety zones without heavy machinery - and if they did, they would be cut down in seconds. The code red situation would involve five times as much napalm, followed by a much more thorough and quick chemical attack - not just in the sector, but of the surrounding area. Followed perhaps by a small tactical nuke or a neutron bomb.
Second, the procedures of the military were pathetic. They have a confirmed carrier - and it is not under constant surveillance? It is brought into the green zone without any intermediate stages? The green zone is not isolated into sectors which would ensure that the disease & infected can't cross from sector to sector during lock-down? The safe areas in the sectors can be broken out of by normal people without much trouble? The list keeps going. Any one of these procedures would have ensured that there either would be no contamination, or that it wouldn't take down more than a single sector. Can you say "clusterf@#k"? Third, viruses DO NOT spread that fast! 5 seconds from saliva to the brain? Are you kidding? The virus would have to infect some cells, and reprogram them to replicate it. That would have to happen for several generations - IE at best hours. Furthermore, you can't see a virus under a microscope. Finally, if this was a bacteria, there is the blood-brain barrier to consider, which filters out all bacteria - and once again the replication speed is a huge hole.