Maybe the worst attempt at horror ever?

Rating: 1/10 (14 October 2008)

God where do I start? I had heard some good reviews of this but after starting to watch it I was amazed by how bad the acting is just within the first few minutes but it got worse and worse. M. Knight's direction is almost like film school, he had one good movie and has been living off that for years. How he keeps getting money for projects is beyond me.
What bothers me most is his lack of attention to any detail or simple facts. The math teacher says his Mother lives in Philadelphia but they get on a train to Harrisburg PA. which is 2 hrs West of Philly. Even if its assumed they can not get a train to Philly and must go out of their way, why would the train stop in Filbert which is 4 hrs West of and PAST Harrisburg? Then the math teacher seems to get a quick ride to Princeton, NJ but that is a 6 hr drive from Filbert on a good day not to mention the traffic you would have in a disaster. Did he even look at a map?
Notice how incredibly calm everyone is in NYC with an airborne terrorist suicide plague spreading throughout the city, it would be sheer pandemonium. How do you stay ahead of the wind, as if it where a thing you could see and know which direction it's going? Most of this film is so funny that I laughed my ass off. When the girl kills herself on the cell phone, or the private yells about his gun? Pure comic genius. The worst has to be the group all viewing the lions rip off the guys arms in what looks like high def video like they were watching an episode of Jerry Springer. He seems to be trying to scare us but it is so over the top and ham handed it becomes parody. Why is an entire family sitting in a bathtub in Fla. 1500 mils from the problem? M.Kight must always try to get at least one crazy person in his movies that the normal people encounter, why is this woman at the end so insane, is this supposed to scare us?
Man this is one dumb movie.