If anything the movie is prescient, taking into account the current storylines of the real-world pandemic and expounding upon them in dramatic,īut in some ways believable, ways. Works his connections in an effort to find her an immunity bracelet before she and her grandmother are whisked away to a Q Zone. He's working to build a relationship with Sara (Sofia Carson) who lives with her elderly grandmother Lita (Elpidia Carrillo). Souls is Nico (KJ Apa) who works as a bicycle courier, delivering packages (which are sanitized under UV light in the transfer process) to shut-ins. Those who are symptomatic are taken at gunpoint to a quarantine zone where most are left to rot. Those deemed free of the virus are permitted to Everyone is required to submit to a cell phone medical scan every morning. The future year-to-date death toll in the United States stands at over eight million with many times more that Only those who are "immune" areĪllowed outside of their homes. In the near future, COVID-23 has ravaged the world, a world on lockdown, on edge, and on the brink of collapse. Under 90 minutes and incapable of accomplishing anything with the material other than merely existing for the sake of existing. Its main focus and essential premise isn't half bad, but it's a labor even at With too many tentacles with too few worthwhile plotlines at its fingertips. Here's a movie that's too sprawling and unfocused, reaching It's not particularly successful as a commentary on the COVID-19 pandemic, it falls flat asĪ cautionary tale, and it can't reach the same dramatic interest and emotional resonance and reality as a pandemic Thriller in the same light as Contagion or Outbreak. Reviewed by Martin Liebman, March 31, 2021
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