I went online and read a lot of synopsis' and reviews and they all say something a bit different, and none mention my big issues.
Good opening scene, although misleading. A woman trying to get her son out of an infected area with what blatantly looks like a bite on her wrist. So, I think, ok we have another zombie movie. Nope. It's just a deadly cure-resistant infection passed via? Not air. Touch? Yet we see non-infected touching infected, including major amounts of blood, and only some of them get infected.
Now the main problem. There are actually two planes in this movie trying to evacuate non-infected people. When the planes land the infected attempt to hijack them. WHY?? Why. I was trying to figure this out the whole time. Why? What would've been the point of them getting on a plane and flying anywhere else in the world. They are infected, everyone around them is infected. If they go somewhere not infected they will just infect the new people. The few infected people on the plane at no point get violent, try to eat anyone, attempt to do anything negative until extremely provoked. There was no indication of madness or deterioration of rational thinking. There would be food and water where they are, especially as people die off. If there was a cure, which there is not per a radio broadcast stating this, it would be brought to them. Again, Where are they going that every plane needs to be hijacked by the infected?
If they had made a valid point, or even attempted to address this I could suspend belief a bit. When movies leave such major plot holes as these, I just can't. Give me something more, a reason. Don't short change your audience.
One thing that I did like about The Carrier is that you can identify with the "villain" at some times. He's a very mean and violent man. He's rude to everyone. Treats them all like trash. BUT he is not wrong when he says they shouldn't be flying the infected on the plane to non-infected areas. I hated him, but agreed with him on his major struggle.
Good opening scene, although misleading. A woman trying to get her son out of an infected area with what blatantly looks like a bite on her wrist. So, I think, ok we have another zombie movie. Nope. It's just a deadly cure-resistant infection passed via? Not air. Touch? Yet we see non-infected touching infected, including major amounts of blood, and only some of them get infected.
Now the main problem. There are actually two planes in this movie trying to evacuate non-infected people. When the planes land the infected attempt to hijack them. WHY?? Why. I was trying to figure this out the whole time. Why? What would've been the point of them getting on a plane and flying anywhere else in the world. They are infected, everyone around them is infected. If they go somewhere not infected they will just infect the new people. The few infected people on the plane at no point get violent, try to eat anyone, attempt to do anything negative until extremely provoked. There was no indication of madness or deterioration of rational thinking. There would be food and water where they are, especially as people die off. If there was a cure, which there is not per a radio broadcast stating this, it would be brought to them. Again, Where are they going that every plane needs to be hijacked by the infected?
If they had made a valid point, or even attempted to address this I could suspend belief a bit. When movies leave such major plot holes as these, I just can't. Give me something more, a reason. Don't short change your audience.
One thing that I did like about The Carrier is that you can identify with the "villain" at some times. He's a very mean and violent man. He's rude to everyone. Treats them all like trash. BUT he is not wrong when he says they shouldn't be flying the infected on the plane to non-infected areas. I hated him, but agreed with him on his major struggle.