Sadly Over-hyped

Let's be realistic.

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

This wasn't terrible, its actually a pretty decent B horror flick. Lots of inventive ideas, and interesting passengers as zombie fare. Its scary in sections and while lacking a budget, any actor you've ever heard of before and going straight to DVD this is better than you'd expect.The story follows an airliner that gets grounded after one of the passengers begins to exhibit symptoms of a virus, vomits all over a stewardess and then goes berserk. (According to news footage an apartment building in LA has also been placed in "Quarantine" which is a nod to the first film.) The situation gets worse when the plane is sent to an abandoned terminal and then quarantined by the CDC.As the "rage virus" lets loose the passengers are getting infected one by one (always fun) and fighting to survive. Most of the movie takes place in the baggage sorting section off the runway, the part of the airport we never see and for the most part follows Jenny, the stewardess and George a young boy travelling without his parents.I loved the set up here with all the assorted passengers; man with ALS in wheelchair, army medic, teacher, young couple, pregnant woman, fat guy, business guy. Its always fun guessing who will live and die. Some decent zombie gore, mostly on the gross out end of the spectrum, snot and drool etc including a severe scene with a needle to the eye. A decent inception story as long as you disregard the fact that assorted animals were allowed to ride in the cabin?? And a clever ending too. 4/12/16

A red-eye flight from Los Angeles is instructed to make an emergency landing at the nearest airport after a sudden outbreak of a deadly rabies-like virus that causes uncontrollable rage and violence. On finding the door to the terminal locked, the crew and passengers make their way to the baggage area, where they discover that all exits have been barred: the airport is under quarantine. Now they must fight for survival as the infected hunt them down and the authorities try to contain the virus using any measures necessary.The bad news is that Quarantine 2 does absolutely nothing new within the infected/zombie genre: the plot is unexceptional, as are the majority of the scares, most of which rely on loud noises to achieve their desired effect (rather predictably, the infected shriek like banshees when they attack!).The good news is that, although you won't be hard-pressed to guess how things will play out, there is still quite a lot of fun to be had with this by-the-numbers sequel, which delivers at least one genuinely effective 'crap your pants' moment, a few solid performances, and a modicum of gore (although the most squeamish scene involves someone injecting themselves in the eye).The REALLY good news is that, for the most part, Q2 does away with the tired found-footage/hand-held video style of the first film, meaning that you can enjoy this film without the annoyance of too much wobbly-cam.

While QUARANTINE was the American remake of the Spanish zombie film REC, QUARANTINE 2: TERMINAL is not a remake of REC's sequel, REC 2. Instead, it's a stand-alone sequel that sees a group of survivors struggling to cope when one of their number is infected during a routine flight from LAX.Sadly, QUARANTINE 2 turns out to be as familiar and by rote as you'd expect from this stagnating genre. The whole zombie thing has truly be done to death (or should that be un-death?) these past few years, and nowhere is that more evident than here. In fact, this isn't even the first zombies-on-a-plane film I've watched; I've already had the misfortune of sitting through FLIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, which was equally poor.Most of the film is set within the bowels of an airport terminal, which just has the normal disused warehouse look to it. The small cast are full of uninteresting characters and the acting is uniformly bland from the entire group. The director has some experience of writing cheesy B-movies but his inexperience behind the camera shows. They also get rid of the whole 'found footage' aspect here, which was a bit disappointing; at least it would have made the attempted scares more immediate.

This sequel picks up on the same night that the original takes place; a plane departing Los Angeles isn't airborne long when the infection breakout happens on the plane. It is forced to land and a group of passengers fight off infected passengers as they are isolated and cut off by the military in a terminal. They quickly understand that help isn't coming and the infected dead try to viciously kill the living. This simple idea is stretched from the first film into this one and sets it in a airport terminal instead of an apartment building. Fortunately we have a group of survivors we can root for and Writer/Director John G. Pogue makes this movie tense and truly scary. The movie also benefits from moving away from the shaky camera style the first film used. Plenty of blood and jump scares pack this surprising sequel that is a worthy follow up to the original.