Wednesday, March 6, 2013

REVIEW: THE CRAZIES(2010)

                                                           VIA fuenf-filmfreunde.de

WOW. IT DID LIVE UP TO ITS NAME. IT WAS A CRAZY RIDE TO HELL AND BACK WHICH TESTED MY TEMPERAMENT TO THE HILT. AND THE FACT THAT I HAD WATCHED THE WOMAN SOME HOURS AGO ONLY COMPOUNDED THE MATTER. THIS DEFINITELY SHAKES YOU UP N MAKES YOU FEEL AS IF THE ONSCREEN VIRUS HAS BEGUN TO AFFLICT YOU. PHEW....

SYNOPSIS: A HUSBAND AND WIFE WHO ARE INCIDENTALLY THE SHERIFF N THE DOCTOR RESPECTIVELY,HAVE TO SURVIVE THE NIGHT AS A VIRUS HAS SPREAD IN THEIR ONCE HAPPY TOWN AND TRANSFORMED EVERYBODY INTO A BUNCH OF PISSED OF ZOMBIES.

NOW THE PREMISE IS PRETTY CLEAR. A ZOMBIE SURVIVAL MOVIE. YEAH. BUT THE POINT IS THE STORY ISNT ABOUT A GROUP OF RAGTAG BUNCH IN A MALL BUT ON A LARGER SCALE OF A TOWN. AND IT SPEAKS SCARILY ABOUT HOW ANGER IS THE CATALYST TO ARMAGEDDON. A BUNCH OF PISSED OF GOVERNMENTS STARTED THE WORLD WARS. N THEY WOULD DO SO AGAIN. WHEN ANGERS TAKES OVER IT CLOUDS YOUR SENSES TO THE POINT THAT YOU JUSTIFY EVERY WRONG YOU ABHORRED. AND ITS REALITY.

AND THIS POINT GETS THROUGH BECAUSE THE ACTING BY THE CAST IS TREMENDOUS. RADHA MITCHELL,TIMOTHY OLYPHANT ARE THE TWO LEADS WHO HAVE TO DO THE THINGS THEY WOULDNT HAVE IMAGINED TO SURVIVE THE NIGHT. AND THEIR REALISTIC NO NONSENSE PROTRAYAL FUCKS WITH YOUR BRAINS. AND TO SUPPORT THEM DANIELLE PANABAKER N JOE ANDERSON DO A DECENT JOB AS THE ASSISTANT TO THE DOCTOR N DEPUTY SHERIFF RESPECTIVELY. WELL DONE CAST.

THE DIRECTOR BRECK EISNER HAS CREATED A MOVIE SO CREEPY THAT YOU'LL BARELY GET TO CATCH YOUR BREATH. IT REEKS OF HEAVY ATMOSPHERE WHICH SCARES THE SHIT OUTTA YOU WHENEVER A JUMP SCARE IS ENCOUNTERED. AND THERE ARE MORE THAN A COUPLE WHICH'LL MAKE YOUR HEARTBEATS AUDIBLE. FOR THIS A SPECIAL THANKS TO THE TWO SCREENWRITERS FOR THEIR FABULOUS WRITING. KEEPS YOU GLUED EXCEPT A BRIEF TIME IN THE MIDDLE WHERE I FELT THINGS WERE GETTING FORCED. ONLY BRIEFLY BUT. SO WELL DONE-SCOTT KOSAR N RAY WRIGHT.

CREDIT ALSO TO THE CINEMATOGRAPHY WHICH HANDLES A CHEERFUL TOWN GOING TO PIECES PERFECTLY. AS ALSO THE DESTRUCTION N THE NIGHTTIME SHOOTING. ESPECIALLY THE LAST SCENE WAS SUPER. CAPTURED BEAUTIFULLY. A SCENE WHICH WOULD WEIGH YOU DOWN WITH SADNESS. AND WITH DECENT BACKGROUND MUSIC N EDITING IT ALL ADDS UP TO A TERRIFYING JOURNEY FROM HEAVEN INTO HELL.

IN THE END A MOVIE WHICH WILL MAKE YOU THINK SERIOUSLY ABOUT WHO IS THE REAL MONSTER? THE RAPIST OR THE GOVERNMENT WHO WILL HANG HIM? GO EXPERIENCE THE CRAZIES.....

HighTension Meter- 8/10.

THXXX FOR THE READ. SHARE/COMMENT.
  

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