Carriers (2009) Movie Review, Trailer, Film Still and Poster

USA 2008
Director: Àlex Pastor & David Pastor
Cast: Chris Pine, Lou Taylor Pucci, Piper Perabo, Emily VanCamp, Christopher Meloni, Kiernan Shipka
Rating: PG-13
Release Date: 4 September 2009
Running Time: 1 hour 25 minutes

The Movie Review

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Everyone once had it and everyone once experienced it, everyone got sick once. I think everyone knows what a virus is, and man do they have prominent roles in horror movie realm. Besides, these recent years the horror of virus in the real world were very frightening, so it's not something surprising if we got some virus-related horror films. Released in September 2009, Carriers was directed by relatively new directors and it stars Piper Perabo of Coyote Ugly (2000), The Cave (2005) and Chris Pine of Blind Dating (2006), and Star Trek (2009).

The premise is very simple, Four friends with two of them brothers are on the road trip to reach a place safe and uncontaminated. Brian (Chris Pine), with his dominating personality, is the leader of the small group. He goes with his brother Danny (Lou Taylor Pucci), Brian's girlfriend Bobby (Piper Perabo) and Danny's friend, Kate (Emily VanCamp). The world is in the state of destruction because of unknown virus that has become a pandemic killing almost every living human. The virus is highly contagious and doesn't have any cure, so once you've got it, then it's bye-bye for you. While driving along the road with their car that they nicknamed 'Road Warrior', the party bumps into a father and daughter. They agree to go together, but it seems that even with being uninfected, the harsh reality has brought up their darker side of personality and what Brian, Danny, Bobby and Kate are really capable of.

Carriers is a simple but creative movie, it could deliver something thrilling even with budget seemingly low. This horror film could be categorized also as a road movie, they rarely visit a town, and the roads are empty with no big town whatsoever, which means minimum actors. And the tension or the horror it presents us are no longer new. The truth is, Carriers feels more like a drama movie. It has got many dramatic scenes and the writers used full use of people' characters and how they would change into different people (or the real them) when being cornered or when their life are at stake. To cast Piper Perabo was a good choice, she delivers the most dramatic performance in the most tragic scene. The blood is kept very minimum, with cheap shock showing bloody corpse in one of the lead's dream. I still think some moviegoers would enjoy how the drama being played with their relatively normal but desperate-theme dialogue, but I still think the movie is not for moviegoers looking for some memorable viewing experience. You would probably already forget it not long after you've seen it. But for a cheap rent, it's worth a look once.

>Stay away from virus, but get close to these thrilling virus movies: 28 Days Later (2002),
28 Weeks Later (2007) and Quarantine (2008)