Just my opinion, but....

Rating: 8/10 (28 October 2013)

So, I will be perfectly frank. I am going to write my review entirely based on how I view movies in general. There are directors that make amazing movie after amazing movie. They've never made a bad movie. I feel the same way about actors and actresses. Then again, there are those who have made great movies, decent movies, and movies they (and probably everyone else as well) wish would just disappear. Some actors make movies based on the story or the message, some do it just for the money and take every movie coming their way. But I also believe some directors sign on to make movies that have the most amazing messages behind them, but the movie just isn't made right, for whatever reason.
That said, I think this movie is one of them. We all know what the movie is about. It's about a science teacher named Eloit Moore, who with his wife, best friend and best friend's daughter, attempt to escape and inexplicable "natural" disaster, a neurotoxin that make whomever is exposed to it commit suicide. The film originally begins along the East Coast of the United States and ends at the Louvre Palace in Paris.
There's a scene at the end of the movie where an expert is arguing that the epidemic was only the beginning and is comparing it to a "Red Tide". He proclaims that humans have become a threat to the planet and that is why the plants are reacting agressively. Not to go off on what most would call a rant but I agree. THAT is why I liked the movie. I believe not only could this happen in real life, but it has begun to happen, only in different ways. Namely, Hurricane Katrina and the gross mass outbreak of "natural" disasters.
It's simple, destroy humanity (which we are well on our way of doing) and the natural world, the environment, will flourish and begin to heal itself once again.
I find it mind-boggling how many people missed the all important message in this film. We are our own worst enemy.