A response to the movie: Brief, thought provoking, and reasonable

Rating: 4/10 (17 June 2008)

Movie had low production quality, less than mediocre acting, and an unreasonable and overly dramatic message, unless M had a message that transcended the apparent message in his movie: This country is in large part driven unfortunately by fear. Fear is the feeling that inevitably permeates throughout society. Having said that, the biological "attacks" didn't originate until a woman screamed. At the beginning and the end. Why did the woman scream, was it because of the fatal chemical excretions of the plant-life or was it for something else unrelated, but the ever-present fear that resulted from that scream was the catalyst for the spread of the fatal chemicals. Then the fear spread throughout the northeast and was attached to those that were scared, regardless of the size of groups. Whalberg and Deschannel near the end were unharmed because they were experiencing at that moment "Love" as opposed to "Fear." The end with the scientist developing a theory of this biological toxin being a response to the environmental and progressive fiendishness of human civilization seemed to be direct and obvious in its message. Yet could that message in itself be drawing on the "Fear" that has driven society for so long? I doubt M has the cleverness or even the time to indulge in such possibilities or complexities in writing this movie. It's making good money, so mission accomplished I guess.
The Movie itself had, like I said, low production quality and less-than-mediocre acting regardless.
4.5/10