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[Rec] (2007)
Brilliant!
My partner and I watched this movie over a year ago but I'm commenting today because I have just watched the American remake (Quarantine) which was a great disappointment. REC was a great movie from storyline to acting to production. A simple idea, camera crew joining the local firefighters during one of their call outs. The building is in the middle of the city but because it's quarantined by the authorities the people locked inside are helpless against a rapidly spreading infection which turns people into scary violent cannibals. The end is probably the scariest part which just adds to the brilliance of this movie. The subtitles bit was a bit annoying especially if you'd seen this movie in theatre but there isn't much dialogue anyway so we coped well. Awesome movie and worth the time, effort, and money.
Quarantine (2008)
What a great disappointment!
I am so glad I watched the original (REC) first. Had I seen this version first I would have dismissed the whole idea and may not have watched REC. REC was a superb movie with a great storyline, brilliant acting, production, and cinemagraphy. Quarantine, on the other hand, was a cheap remake that failed to impress. I was looking forward to watching a good scary movie over the long weekend but this movie did nothing for me. I think the worst part of this movie was the acting and a few parts of the storyline. Don't waste time/money on this movie. If you want to treat yourself then watch REC and enjoy perhaps one of the scariest movies you'll ever see.
House of the Dead 2 (2005)
Utterly ridiculous!
I am furious! It has been a while since the last zombie movie I've watched so I was really looking forward to watching a good ol' gory zombie movie. HoTD2 was a major disappointment. A reasonable story but awful acting, filming, dialogue, and nauseating clichés and punch lines. I didn't even see the first one which is supposedly worse than this one...now I am curious about how bad could that one have been! The film is full of mistakes and goofs. Who on earth analyses DNA using a blood sample!? Why are these "special forces" who "have been to hell and back" fight like spoiled 6 year old girls? We see ferocious zombies who would take a bite at any chance they get then hundreds of them that wave their arms at our two "heroes", take them down to the ground, then let them go without even a scratch. I could go on and on about this but life is too short and I have already wasted a couple of hours watching this pathetic movie which is an insult to the movie industry.
11:11 (2004)
Not worth it!
Good lord! This movie needs to have a new classification on its cover "watch only if you have absolutely nothing else to do!". I am disappointed. I was looking forward to a good horror movie over the weekend...needed an adrenalin rush and that awesome tingling sensation going down my spine. But this movie didn't do it. A reasonably good story but pretty awful acting, dialogue, and filming. It was disjointed and sometimes outright silly. We had actors looking at the wrong direction of the camera, people talking out loud (by themselves) and narrating what they feel and what is going to happen, shadows of equipment in some shots, silly clichés like "I just need you to hold me" in the totally wrong places and situations. Thank you for allowing me to offload and sorry if I'd offended anybody but it was a waste of time and money.