Daybreakers

Daybreakers.

Vampires.

Blood.

Jumpy.

Slow motion.

Serious.

Ridiculous.

Funny.

Dumb.

Awesome.

Boring.

Ethan hawk.

Cigarettes.

Sunlight.

Aah.

(Notice the lack of enthusiasm).

Carriers

Danny Boyle ushered in a decade of "Infection" movies with 28 Days Later. With this resurgence of the undead came a slew of iterations such as the new Dawn of The Dead, Shaun of The Dead, I Am Legend, etc. The past ten years was one of the most Zombie-saturated times in Cinema, ever. This brings us to Carriers.

What is Carriers? It is a completely useless addition to the Zombie/Infection/Post-Apocalyptic genre, not only for the past decade, but for this year alone. In a year where we get to watch The Road for some intensely serious drama and pants-shitting intensity at times, or have ridiculous action-comedy fun with Zombieland, Carriers has no shot at competing. The problem is that this film tries to do both, and trips over itself by carrying no weight or fun to any situation or character throughout.

From the beginning, for example, the whole "this is our list of rules" trope seems like a fucking parody that we've already seen in Zombieland. The characters are pretty simple and predicatble, so we don't really give a shit when the film attempts to get serious. I don't care when a supposedly major character is found out to have been in direct contact with the infected, and has to be tossed out of the car. That's supposed to be hard to watch and emotionally affecting. Instead, it's just an annoying moment that can't pass quick enough. The film also wants to have some crazy fun, showing us crazy fun things people do in this newly abandoned world. That would all be fine, if I actually liked the characters.

Don't waste your time with Carriers. Chris Pine is good, but he has nothing special to do here. The story is simple, which would be fine if it did something new or emotionally affecting. It does neither. It's shot pretty standardly, with no particular sequence to remember or praise.