The outcast's haven

Around a week ago, I went with my group of classmates to go and watch some more gore porn. About two weeks ago, I followed them to Dying Breed, but more recently, I watched an overhyped, idiotic fusion of I Am Legend/Cloverfield.

Quarantine is a remake of a Spanish film, that didn't see widespread release. It was fairly well recieved by critics, but because it was in Spanish, it didn't see widespread release. Quarantine is an English duplicate of this, but unfortunately, something was lost in the transition.

Quarantine's plot essentially is it's title, where an apartment is quarantined by the United States Government, due to a mysterious disease outbreak. Unfortunately, for the people inside, the government doesn't care about the livelihoods of those inside, and like all monster movies, this is where the action begins.

The camerawork in the film is pretty much like Cloverfield's, with the shaky camera work being the only thing that the viewers can see. This makes the film like an FPS, and like most games, the acting isn't up to scratch as well. Honestly, (Spoiler Warning) when you get your main character to go psycho, and by psycho- I mean like an Ice/Heroin addict, it gets... EXTREMELY annoying, after the 50th cry/scream for help/act of mass hysteria. Also, because we obviously can't see the person wielding the only camera, we really can't tell how well he acted, or perhaps- he did a voiceover a lot later on.

The film isn't that scary as well- it mainly relies on shock, and just old cliches in order to terrify it's audience for an extremely short period of time. In fact, there were laugh out loud points in the film, due to the ridiculously unrealistic usage of CGI, and the mass stupidity of the survivors inside. Perhaps the funniest part of the film when a main character goes on a killing spree, armed with nothing but an axe.

Secondly, the film is incredibly unrealistic, because the survivors, as aforementioned, are about as intelligent as small animals. Also, the government takes a very 'Unamerican' approach, prefering to let the residents rot inside- rather then providing them with a healthy dosage of the Second Amendment.

It's a pity that the film isn't that great after all, but for the maximum horror effect, I'd suggest going to the cinemas and watching the stupidity firsthand.

Final Rating; Two and a Half Stars out of Five