The Plague
The Plague
R | 05 September 2006 (USA)
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Ten years have passed since the world's children fell into a coma. Tonight they're waking up and all hell is breaking loose. An unholy battle between the generations is being waged, and time is not on the side of adults.

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Derry Herrera

Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

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Kien Navarro

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

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Portia Hilton

Blistering performances.

Bob

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

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Uriah43

All across the world every child under the age of 9 is suddenly hit with a plague that sends them into a coma. They stay comatose for 10 years and then they all wake up at once. And they begin to kill all of the adults they see. Nobody knows the reason that only children under 9 are affected. Neither does anyone know why they have become like murderous zombies. All people know is that the only way to stop them from killing is to kill them first. Anyway, so much for the plot. As far as the movie itself was concerned, it had some good points and it had some bad points. First, I thought it was well directed, the acting was okay and it managed to maintain my interest from start to finish. On the other hand, there were quite a few questions left unanswered which really lowered the film's overall value. For example, it doesn't explain where the plague came from nor why the children suddenly woke up and started killing people. Likewise, the ending was equally puzzling. That said, regardless of whether explanations were deliberately omitted or not, it really caused the film to suffer. In short, this movie could have been much better if it made sense. But parts of it didn't and because of that I only give this film an average rating.

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SnoopyStyle

All the children in the world suddenly convulse and fall into comas. Nobody can have any more kids. Ten years later, all the coma kids suddenly wake up and attack.That's the premise. Lots of possibilities here but each one is somehow squandered. The religious angle of 'Laying of Hands' could be interesting. The ending could definitely be better explained. The act of 'Laying of Hands' is too cheap and where did that little kid come from? The generational angle is done the best. How do you expect the parents to fight against their own kids? Even here, the emotional punch is limited by 2nd rate filmmaking. The most disappointing are the chases. Like '28 Days Later', these guys are fast. That is great but it's shot with such lethargy. None of it is exciting or scary. This has so much potential, but delivers nothing. Letting them fire weapons is giving the coma kids too much power. Also it makes no sense when you consider they're trying to 'Lay Hands' on you.

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JoeB131

The plot is that all the world's children go comatose, and ten years later, they all wake up and start killing the adults. So the movie plays like a wet dream from the Human Extinction Project, but it's really just another lame zombie movie with all the tired zombie movie conventions.Except the zombies are teenagers (read 20 year olds because they never hire actual teenagers to play teenagers).You would have to believe that all these kids would develop normally while being in a coma. And that they would be physically capable of killing adults AND sustaining gunshot wounds after being in vegetative states for a decade.Still, I give the first half of the movie credit for being a slightly more effective than usual zombie movie, using all the zombie clichés ("she's not your daughter anymore!") and throwing in a few twists to boot.At least until the ending, when the hero figures out what they are up to and it turns into kind of an illogical mess where there's no payoff of letting the audience know what we just watched.

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lastliberal

You have all probably seen this before. No, you have seen this before. If you have seen Village/Children of the Damned, there is no difference. A few hours vs. 10 years. Same thing.Once the children come out of their coma, then it is more 30 days of Night as they are zombified (not zombies as they never really died) and they start killing off everyone.The violence escalates as they learn to anticipate and use weapons.I thought James Van Der Beek did a fairly good job, and I also liked Ivana Milicevic. Tom definitely redeemed himself as everyone could certainly empathize with his actions that sent him to prison.

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