First Post Ever - Movie: Quarantine

Being as this is my first post ever, I'm going to go ahead and take the liberty of introducing what I'm trying to do here. You'll be able to gather a little information about me and my taste in movies from my profile, but essentially, my goal with this Blog is to provide YOU (the reader) with fair, completely opinionated, and hopefully hilarious reviews of movies. I'm going to be putting up a list of my "creditentials" in my profile, along with a few of my ideals about the current state of the movie industry to give YOU (the reader) a better feel about where some of these hair-brained reviews may be coming from. Meantime, I'm going to be rating movies in the typical 5 star format with a quick synopsis of what I thought were good and bad about each. Feel free to agree or disagree with me, it honestly doesn't matter. I consider my taste in movies to be somewhat different from Hollywood's mainstream, but hopefully what I want to accomplish with this site is to build a reader fanbase (good or bad), and share objective opinions about movies for the uninformed. I'm going to try to keep spoilers to a minimum, but as a warning, movie reviews that I do consider to be bad... MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS.

But enough about that. My friend Nathan and I went to see the movie Quarantine. Nathan is my movie buddy, we pretty much go see whatever random shit is playing at the theater as long as it even looks slightly entertaining and/or is playing at about the time we arrive.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1082868/

Quarantine is a horror movie as hopefully many of you would have gathered from watching the preview. If you're a fan of jump out scares... this is probably the movie for you. Personally, I think that movies relying strictly on the jump out tactic are lame. Now, Quarantine does for the beginning of the movie attempt to develop a plot. A News Story Team is trailing a few fire fighters (with a shakey-ass camera operater) when they get a call. If you've seen the previews, you already know that their call is leading them to some apartment building somewhere, at which the situation goes from playful to Resident Evil 1. The police (for whatever reason) and whoever else, decide to lock everyone in the building, so the camera crew, in true Cloverfield style, decides that "People have to know what happened here." and keep filming the event for our benefit. This movie at some points is VERY fast paced (which I really like sometimes), but as far as being scary, I would suggest using a different tactic than very obvious jump out situations. If I had to think of a movie to compare it to...... The Strangers (another movie that used PURE jump outs to create the illusion of horror). But in the end, with the camera style, I would say that the movie is a cross between Cloverfield, The Blair Witch Project, and Resident Evil.

The Good: The main female actress is sort of hot. This is actually a lot bigger of an issue than people think. You take a movie like Bridget Jones's Diary where I really don't care how sophisticated the humor is, I can't get past the fact that Renée Zellweger looks awful. The "Zombies" are geniunly Zombie-like (AKA: The blood looks real and they do look soft of creepy). Some of the supporting actors in this movie were really actually good. One of the things I really find to my liking is the ability of a movie and it's actors to establish other characters, which unknowingly, this movie does a good job of. Look for the vet and the fire-fighter without the mustache.

The Bad: Lame scare-tactics, very obvious plot holes and I really really could not stand watching this dumb (but slightly hot) white bitch hyperventilate for half an hour at the end. Also - the very last scene in the preview where she gets dragged away is also the very last scene in the movie. WTB (wanting to buy) an explaination or what happened, or at least some real closure. This I would consider is the problem with making movies with a handycam (although I did enjoy Cloverfield).

Outlook: 2/5 Stars. I've seen movies MUCH worse than this, but the official reviews it's received up until this point make the movie actually look like it's worth it's ticket price... which it isn't.