"THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS" (review)

WARNING: SPOILER

This is not your average zombie film. The story is very slow-paced, an agonizing hour and forty-five minutes. The thing that makes people inhuman is not virus-propelled, but fungus-propelled. And the main character is basically “a cut above the rest” of the infected patients; subjects of a government program whose mission is to find the cure. I feel quite silly following the advice of a review I saw somewhere, that it was worth watching and it deserved more attention than it had. It’s sort of like “28 Weeks Later” meets “Warm Bodies”.

The idea is very original, though. The fully transformed zombies remain idle, even motionless, unless agitated. They’re not stimulated much by smell alone; they don’t clutter in compressed spaces, just standing (not walking) a few feet apart from each other when undisturbed. A single provocation builds up into a swarm and all hell breaks loose. They run fast and are relentless, voracious attackers. The zombies eventually dry up and become sprawling plants and vines that release spores, which in turn repeats the cycle of infection all over again. But it appears, towards the end of the plot, that the disease is possible to treat.

I almost fell asleep at the first 25 minutes, but I continued on. The first significant dreadful scene actually starts on the 26^th minute. (Imagine, I bothered to notice the time elapsed? HAHAHAHA!!!!) But the thrill pretty much didn’t take off. I gave it a chance to make me love it… until the end. But it just won’t let me. Kinda sounds like a recent chunk of my “(love)life”! HAHAHA!!! AS IF I HAVE ONE! HAHAHA!!!

The movie is generally boring all throughout, and a bit ridiculous in the end. Maybe that’s why it didn’t catch much attention – because it seriously lacked the action and horror sequences which are expected from any motion picture of this genre. Only the science itself impressed me: very original, but sadly unsatisfying. (FEELING FILM CRITIC!) Hehehehe….

So why make a review if it’s useless and totally unnecessary? It was disappointing because I was expecting too much. It just could have been better… But a sequel can still be possible.

Maybe not with the same person/s or circumstances, but generally in life, there is always another chance. And again, double meaning and pun intended. >_< HAHAHA!!!