Great at the start...then.....worse...and don't get me started on the ending!

Rating: 6/10 (3 January 2008)

OK, thought id give this a watch on its opening day in Australia, today.
The start of the movie was good for a psychological point of view- him talking to mannequin's and so badly wanting one to talk..OK fair enough, him killing his dog-yes,pretty bad. But people were right when they said the moment it got bad was when his dog dies...yeah, boom bring in 2 people- i wanted more hard-core reactions for living in isolation in 3 years and then coming into human contact, not stupid lines like "I was saving that bacon"!
It got worse: Bob Marley reference- pointless. God reference- just as bad. Then, to crown it off- the butterfly reference at the end- i am sick of Hollywood movies spelling out these metaphors to the point where it is insulting as they take us for people that can't put 2 and 2 together- which reminds me of that scene in Home Alone where Joe Pieci's (sp?) character comes into the house and they put that twinkling tooth animation in there...ah, yes, we get the point- he was the same guy as before!
If that wasn't worse enough the writers wrote themselves into a hole at the very end, as with the characters-
1) There is room for you in here Will- yeah, don't bother going in there with them 2)Will has more experience surviving rather than her and the kid- he should have stayed there to protect them 3)He blows himself up..ahh yeah i see how that would have destroyed all those other infected people in the room 4) The writers cut to the end scene which don't even show how the hell the 2 characters get out of that crazy situation with many, many infected people coming to get them. 5) Didn't like the idea of the cure.
Overall- good at the start, but waaaay too big crash at the end! 6/10