Review of Quarantine 2: Terminal (2011) by Jonny P — 10 Mar 2012

"Quarantine 2: Terminal" is a terrible follow-up to its imaginative and bone-chilling predecessor. This is great evidence that less is more. Abandoning the intrigue of the first film where seeing is NOT believing, this installment of the Quarantine series shows all; unfortunately, these images are not nearly as terrifying as the images created by our imaginations during the original and the end result is a lot of blood and a minimal amount of terror.

Even more disappointing is the extensive use of "thermal vision." You can tell that this is the point where they decided to stop investing money into the film and went with some of the poorest CGI I've seen in a long time.

The use of nightvision in the first film strongly related to the storyline and was seemlessly incorporated into this plot whereas the thermal vision is just a gag that tries to provide variation but just makes the film awful.

You can tell that the acting is going to be bad from the first 2 minutes and this large cast hinders the ability of the film to scare, merely providing more meaningless personalities to be turned into rabid zombies.

I am upset that they tried to connect this film to the first through that brief newsfeed and even more upset that this film bears the same title. The first "Quarantine" is a terrifying piece of art while this abhorrant sequel's sparse scares beg for a label of mediocrity.