Pandemic (2009)

Thanks for the memories!

Great Film overall

Admirable film.

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

1 out of 10, because I can't give it a lower rating.The cinematography is brutally awful. The script ... OK I can't even call it a script. The acting does its level best, but the script doesn't make any sense.The close captioning / subtitles are the worst ever.The soundtrack is up and down, loud and soft, and the music has nothing to do with the movie except this is somewhere in the region of the country where the music is supposed to fit - only it doesn't.The military is ridiculously portrayed, absolutely horrific, an embarrassment to the actual men and women who serve.Just ... do not waste your time. I would like that hour and a half of my life back.

This really isn't Phoenix, Arizona but Buckeye. Arizona 30 miles from Phoenix. Just curious why this movie was made. Want more information on why that filming location and why Phoenix is listed as the filming location. I ate at the restaurant not to long ago and it has changed hands but the outside is still the same. After she leaves the coroners office after seeing the coroners body the sign reflecting in her mirror says Buckeye. How it compares to some of what is going on around the world sends chills down my spine.Although it is slow starting and some of the dramatic effects are a little cheesy I still liked this movie after trying to watch it before and turning it off.

When the movie first started, I almost turned it off. At first I couldn't figure out how the opening scene related to the movie. I kept it on though and it finally made sense. I enjoyed the conspiracy theories of the one character and some scenes were pretty good, overall though, it was too slow. I'm not really sure what about it exactly made it uninteresting. The character development was not too good. The whole story didn't feel very connected. For me, it didn't get interesting until the very end. The last twenty or thirty minutes it finally picked up. The end was the only thing that saved the movie really. So overall, I give it a 5. Half good, half bad. Because about half of the movie was decent and the other half was a waste of time. I'm not saying you shouldn't watch it, it's just not my cup of tea.

First things first, it relies on false advertising to sell. Sure, the back-of-the-box blurb is sorta accurate, but what sells is the name and cover art: there are NO cool gas masks. There are NO big cities affected by a plague. There are no stormy, overcast days mirroring the abysmal dysphoria of a human world threatened by disease. This movie is a Grade-A example of movies being posers in an already bloated genre of films.This film feels like garbage someone put in a candy wrapper and stashed in the vending machine. I rented it from Redbox, watched it once all the way through, and took it back in less than three hours with a look on my face like I was smelling bad cheese. It was horrible! At first, I honestly thought that someone had gotten the "actual" Pandemic DVD, copied the little iOS5 stickers on the center, and replaced the disc with their own shitty independent film.The music is awful, the visual and audio effects are cheap, and at least 50% of the entire runtime is just montage padding of NOTHING. Watching a lady drive her truck, or her and her dorky man-ape friend run about backwood fields for a few minutes to crappy minimalist pop music. The plot is cliché, the writing is actually worse than an Uwe Boll script that diminishes all empathy, suspense, or drama, and you can tell immediately that the entire budget went into renting those tacky Humvees.Overall, I'd only recommend this POS DVD if you have a collection of horrible movies for that sake, because this should be your #1-3 Gilded Disc as a tribute to "Cinema Done Wrong." 1/10 and only because they had the balls to release this film...