Starts out fairly well with an oblivious couple as people panic around them, sort of ‘Shaun Of The Dead’-ish. The acting seems pretty decent, too…and for some reason I buy them as a couple pretty quickly.
At first the infection is just annoying to them, but things get slowly more tense, in a way that seems believable.
Then the couple’s neighbor, who happens to be a major survivalist and weirdo, takes an interest in the man for some reason and tries to “mentor” him.
The first really bad thing to happen comes as a BIT of a surprise.
It gets pretty dull after that…and stays at dull until near the end when the writer, apparently unable to think of a decent ending, inserts really dumb lines into the script that take the characters OUT OF character and introduce an ending conflict that makes no sense.
On Netflix Streaming until 7/2/14.
Grade: D-
7/14/18: The Great Grade Update. Grade: D