Clive Barker's The Plague Reviews

this movie just pissed me off.
starts ok, if you can stomach bad acting and a bad script...and bad directing. then it gets worse. yeah.

all the kids all over the world fall into a coma. all new births are in instant comas. theres some points at which the political ramifications of this are hinted at...and dropped immediately when in the next act after 10 years they all wake up as zombies hell bent on killing. we learn they have a collective conscious and learn and adapt quickly. all this seems to be going pretty well. then there some sort've religious overtones to why they kill?? but then it ends leaving you with a half-assed explanation of what it was all about which frankly didn't make any sense whatsoever.

along the way we're punished with poor acting which i can only feel sorry for these fresh actors because they're saddled with absolutely mundane dialog. the directing of this disaster is also mediocre...as if they didn't really care about it at all as long as the bills were getting paid.

i can't for the life of me figure out why these people refuse to find a reasonable way of defending themselves despite what is obviously a major and immediate need. for instance they go back to the police station for guns at one point, 2 of the 4 get killed trying to get them...along with all the zombies in the immediate area...and they do what? leave without the guns of course!...not one gun...not a stick in fact....they leave f**kin' empty handed. why? is this an anti-gun movie? no because they use them a ton of other times rather brutally.

theres some cryptic message that a priest left in his "diary" that says something 'profound' that doesn't really make sense about how "if someone offers their soul to these kids..." blah blah blah.....i give up.

watch this if you...no just don't.
there were some good ideas in it. in better hands it could've been a decent movie.
(2/10)