A deadly plague has broken out, killing hundreds of thousands in its wake. In desperation, the British Government evacuates as many survivors as it can out of the infected area, and then builds a wall, preventing the remainder from escaping. Thirty years later the virus breaks out again. The Government decides to send a crack team of operatives into the hot zone to investigate the possibility of a cure.
My prediction going in was that this movie would fall somewhere between the Mad Max films and the Resident Evil movies with a touch of 28 Days Later, and that is pretty much exactly what it is. It's more of an sci-fi action flick than a horror film like director Neil Marshall's other films, The Descent and Dog Soldiers, but it's got a lot of blood splattering and violence none the less. It's pretty nasty at times and has a bit of a mean streak in parts.
The plot is sort of thin and the movie falls into silly more than a few times but at least it never really gets boring. One action sequence after another kept me on my heels and the big highway chase scene at the end, which goes on for 15 minutes, is just crazy fun and brings to mind the classic highway action scenes in The Road Warrior. Rhona Mitra is sexy hot in the lead role and I would pay big money to see a pillow fight between her and Mila Jovovich from Resident Evil.
But ultimately, it's just really sort of echoes so many other post-apocalyptic movies that it just seems a bit forgettable by the end. I enjoyed the amped up violence and action scenes personally, but if that's not your thing I assure you this movie isn't for you. Saying it's not the most intelligent of films would be an understatement.
6/10
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