Horrible Script and a really bad movie

Rating: 1/10 (16 June 2008)

Where to start. I was really looking forward to this movie, and am a big fan of Mark Wahlberg and Zooey Deschanel. the first 5 minutes of the movie is good, but it goes down hill from there and does not stop going down hill until the ending credits. I mean this is one of those movies that I wanted to pull my hair out because it is so frustratingly bad.
The story is there is something in the air that is causing people to stop in their tracks and kill themselves. OK sounds like a good story, but it is not. The leads flee Philly in a train station that has no sign of panic because it is only happening in NYC at this point. The train stops in some rural town and the crew only tells Wahlberg that they have lost contact with everyone. Everybody then goes to the diner and they have the greatest day of business ever until the TV tells everyone that it is spreading to small towns and that it is clear about 90 miles west of where they are at. Everybody scrambles, but in one of the numerous flaws people drive off in both directions instead of all just going west. A jeep the seats 5, uncomfortably I must add, waits for a stranger (one of the leads) to drive into the heart of the infestation. How stupid is that? And on top of that they wait about 5 minutes for a complete stranger while he gives his goodbyes and then gives him the front seat in a jeep while the people that all know each other are cramped in the back. Unreal.
The other 2 leads head off with some plant guy that wastes 3 minutes of our time talking about hot dogs and such. He also says that it might be the plants doing this. So they all take off and confront a 4 way stop in the road where from each direction cars are coming and where behind them there is death. The group grows and someone is on the phone with a girl from the town where the other idiot went to in the jeep and they are all dead. This is where you see some of the worst extra work ever seen on film. I mean it is bad and MW takes over the phone in order to let everyone hear the girl killing herself. Brilliant. So before the girl on the phone kills herself he tells her to stay away from the window by the tree because remember it is the plants doing this. She doesn't and dies. MW goes off upset about this right in the middle of a bunch of weeds and plants on the side of the road. Genius.
OK I am getting tired, but this is how bad this movie. This group of people decide that the bigger the population the more chance of being infected. The decide to head to walk to a town with a small population, but the population of that town is bigger than them just standing there, and oh ya they have to walk through the fields to get there and all there are all plants in the fields. Do you see how bad this is? The bigger group kills themselves and so MW says they need to be in even smaller groups, but decides to keep 2 kids that they don't know to stay with them even though 3 is less than 5. the only reason these kids are with them is so they can get shot later in the movie.
That is when I walked out, but had to go back because I was told it gets worse on my way out. The last thing that I will say is when MW and ZD are split up at the end and he says he wants to be with her if they are going to die and he is coming to her. So he goes outside and instead of running to her he walks slowly. What a dumb A**. Then after all of it is over and they go to 3 months later and it is the first day of school. Now I remember after 9-11 it took a week for airports to reopen. For this event there would have to have been about 50 million dead and within 3 months everything is back to normal. Also ZD is looking at her pregnancy test while there are 3 house plants on the shelf behind her and outside the street is still lined with trees, meanwhile on the TV the plants are being blamed for the event that they are getting us back. I would have the scorched earth on those trees. Thanks for listening and this movie is not even good for a laugh.