Of all the epidemic movies that have come out over the years this one looks to be the god honest truth. The Bird Flu. A very sensible prediction of what will be the end of man kind. One bird infects one person, and within months billions of people are infected. With a deadly disease spreading so rapidly there is no way that scientists will be able to find a vaccine that will kill the virus in time. Those birds are pretty scary after all, Alfred Hitchcock saw that coming first. I guess we should of listened to the warnings of the master of suspense. Those evil little rats with wings!
Starring in this movie is a superb crew that includes Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate Winslet, Laurence Fishburn, Bryan Cranston, Marion Cotillard, and Jude Law. So there's the medley for ya. We got British accents, a French accent, Morpheus, Walter White the drug lord, Jason Bourne, and a milf blondie. Seems like the perfect crew to be caught up in the plague that ends all mankind.
I think the crew can save this movie from an average box office showing. This will definitely be a watch for me, and it will separate itself from the pile of other epidemic movies that i thought were OK, but nothing special (28 Days Later, Quarantine, The Happening, The Reaping, Children of Men). There have been countless amounts of movies that have to do with the same theme over and over again, and this will be a much better variation of all of them. From what i have heard this movie will be sickening to audiences, and sad in revealing how close the worlds population is to such a disaster. This will be one of those eye opening movies that will make you walk out of the theater to the nearest store to buy some hand sanitizer. And maybe Hitchcock wasn't the only one who warned us. Damn you Howie Mandel!
In closing, I am very interested in seeing how this film will do in the box office on opening weekend. I am going to predict something around 15 million the first weekend. And then a drop off by only a few million the following week. I think the PG-13 rating is really doing this movie a disservice, but come September 9th we will see how painful our future plague will really be, entrails or no entrails.
Rating: PG- 13 Grade Prediction: 84%- B
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