Review of Quarantine 2: Terminal (2011) by Britt G — 03 Sep 2012

It's a sloppy retread of the same concept- a rabies like virus that affects humans and turns them into speedy blood hungry zombies. I'm glad they didn't have the whole movie take place on the plane(which would have been a very short movie, anyway) and took it to an abandoned airport in Nevada. the style changes from the handheld found footage style in the first quarantine, to narrative based more professional looking camerawork. I much preferred this although it could have certainly worked the previous style too, and maybe creepier at a dark airport. I suppose the violence and gore keeps you entertained, but it becomes expected and its shock effect, lessens.

The characters were just as underwritten as they were in the first, but I guess we're more concerned in how they'll serve as zombie food than actual living, breathing humans. The two lead girls were annoying, I can't believe as a stewardess they were thinking about sex already before the flight even took off. Typical sleazy hollywood.

Also the level of suspense and mystery was like at its most basic form. If you've seen the first movie, you quickly pick up on the fact that this guy is carrying suspicious animals that are "carrying" the virus. Then there's a twist later in the movie that the same guy is harboring a plan to bring about the next epidemic, so he can control overpopulation. lol It's hardly a spoiler because you literally suspect the guy from the moment he steps foot on the plane with the totally unsuspicious looking hamster cage.

It's a very loose connection to the first, but this guy owned the infected apartment in the L.A. townhouse where the first quarantine movie took place.

There's quite a few holes in the story and the characters are uninteresting- it's weird that the screenwriter/director felt like keeping the idiotic and annoying characters alive, and the brave and useful people, dead. The most laugh out loud moment is near the end when our lead character stewardess becomes infected and the young boy swears he won't leave her alone, even though he had no qualms with disposing of anyone else who was infected prior!! Melodrama we can do without.