Laakbaar
The plot of this movie is that a highly infectious, particularly gruesome Ebola-like virus (originally designed as a biological weapon) breaks out at an island near Sydney during a rock festival attended by thousands of young people. Like "Outbreak" and other similar movies, we are shown the rapid spread of the virus and the increasingly desperate efforts of the authorities to take care of it.Cliché themes are included probably because, well, that's what you include in movies like this. The panic. The hysterical girlfriend. The stupidly misunderstanding public. (You'd think people would have seen enough movies like this to understand the danger.) The self-serving hypocrisy of the politicians. There is a good deal of maudlin music swelling during deaths and reunions.Let's not forget the disease control specialist whose own children are caught up in the outbreak. ("My children are on that island.") The determined mother who foolishly wants to do nothing except join her child. (Why do I always hate these women?) The heroic but stupid doctors who don't protect themselves. (At one point, he touches his face with his bloodied glove!) Occasionally, the movie lapses completely into unbelievability. Conspiracy theory buffs will enjoy this movie.There is an Australian spin to it all. Cheeky, rebellious teenagers, of course. This is apparently not a country with a slick CDC procedure, if this movie it to be believed. No, in Australia, when this kind of thing happens everyone starts yelling at each other and emoting, television-movie style. Everyone. And the politicians, military and police are all rank bastards. I suppose that's an Australian thing.Still, I didn't hate it. Once you accept what they're doing, it's easy enough to digest this Australian cheese. Outbreak movies are fun and easy to make, so why not. An added benefit is that you can always lay the blame on an evil corporation, the government or the military. These movies are aimed directly at our modern media-fed phobias about health and the environment.
thomasbultman
let me start off by saying that this movie literally made me angry. i've seen chimps acting smarter then some of the people in this movie. first off. the ministers not taking a virus threat serious. And their medical response team, in America if you just as much have a single symptom of a dangerous disease the CDC comes in and quarantines the hell out of it in 40 minutes. they clearly haven't done their research. its really frustrating especially since they clearly had a decent budget. all and all the acting wasn't half bad its the story writers who messed upP.S Sorry for any grammar error's English isn't my first language
soundwright
Even Kylie Mole would not be proud of this one. As an Australian I apologise and ask that every effort is made to limit collateral damage. I.e. innocent people outside of Australia viewing this in the hope of being entertained. This movie is so bad that it could actually suck the will to live out of the Australian film industry. It achieves this by being a blight on the resume of all involved. A bit like the nations that did not join in with the invasion of Afghanistan. Those not involved now look intelligent and have saved mountains of money by not touching it. Those who did not participate in this movie look good by default. I am genuinely sorry for the many young actors involved who could have spent the day serving tables and flipping burgers without suffering anything like the embarrassment that is to come for those associated with this movie. The only thing that could have saved it was the seasoned experienced actors, but they too contracted the perennial Australian disease of toxic over-acting and taking themselves too seriously. One episode of "Misfits" ,channel 4 UK, and you can see how TV productions can be done well.
djakkj47
Pathetic, obviously no research went into this especially how they conducted the autopsy, a grade 4 and they autopsies the way they did.Only 2 police officers on the island to control crowd with. Few security officers, pathetic. Gee how did the bloke get into the tunnel without infecting anyone else on the mainland. Crap ending, another pathetic oz movie. Lots of discrepancies. We took the mickey out of it all the way through. Low budget, C grade acting, the pits. Low budget, worthless entertainment. Come on win you can do better than this. The story line was nothing and predictable. These type of virus movies have been round for years
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