I see calculus... And I want a hot dog...

Rating: 7/10 (13 June 2008)

Ill start with the negatives and get to the positives.
So, I just got back from the theater, and I gotta say that I was hoping for a bit more from this film. Mark Wahlberg's performance was better than I expected. Most of the time he sold his character pretty well, it was fairly believable that he could be a teacher. Zooey Deschanel though... There were many times when her speech was very stilted, she sounded over-rehearsed and unrealistic.
She also looked cross-eyed a few times... Seriously.
There were 2 kids in the movie who just seemed kinda out of place. Their bit in the movie had no real effect on the storyline one way or another. The only conclusion that I can come to is that that they might have been there to show how desperate and violent humans can get when put in an extraordinary situation such as this.
Now the good...
If you are a fan of violent death scenes, you should appreciate a few of the ones here. The zoo-keeper, the policeman, and the car crash victims were my personal favorites. Most of the scenes though were a bit tame. But the ones that were nasty and gory made up for the ones that weren't.
This movie had a few scares in it, though not enough to be a truly scary movie. Unless you are freaked out by the thought of plants being able to make you kill yourself, don't expect to be too frightened by this movie.
All in all, it was decent. Ill buy it when it comes out on DVD, but its not good enough to warrant a second theater screening.
7/10