Recently, I watched the movie Quarantine 2: Terminal hoping to later do a review of it. However, I then read of it having a limited theatrical release so it may not apply to my Direct to DVD guidelines (of which there is one rule: No extended theatrical release with a set amount of theaters that I will determine on a case by hypocritical case basis).
Anyway, the decision made was to not do it so instead I've included the notes I took in Notepad while I watched. Hope you can find some enjoyment. A summary is at the end if you don't want it.
Absolute Spoilers from Beginning to End between the ~~~ things.
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QUARANTINE 2: TERMINAL
Open with a POV of a flight. They're coming in for a landing.
Cut to a cab and a woman buttoning her blouse. She's a stewardess
dressing for work as they rush not to be late. Why are they late?
The one snuck backstage at a concert and got her friend a signed
CD. That's nice.
Gate 42. I bet it holds the answers. Exposition dialogue shows
that backstage girl is getting married. Other girl is maid of honor
Then there is a phone call to show Other Girl's dad is a pilot.
The pilot seems sick. "Head cold." He mentions that dogs in his
neighborhood are sick. Ooo Eee...cut to the captain of the flight
talking to Jenny, aka Maid of Honor AKA other girl. She then
goes to meet George. Some kid travelling by himself. He 'knows
the drill' of being the alone-in-flight kid. "I can take care of
myself." Sure, kid.
Cut to an older man in a wheelchair being brought onboard. with
his wife. "He can hear you, but he can't speak...Parkinson."
Awww.
Hello Cliche Fat Guy cracking jokes about the weight of the
plane now that he has entered. "What's a fella gotta do to get a
beer around here?"
Captain notices other pilot's headcold. We randomly meet TBGal by
complimenting her nails. Then some teacher with hampsters. They
try to push the animals into an overhead compartments. One of them
bites the fat guy...please be Zombie Hamsters. Teacher is
apparently attractive because the two stewardesses share a line
about him. Hello Token Black Guy. We just cut around showing
other passengers who should probably be named "Fodder"
Take-off. Fatty has to turn off his cell. TBGuy sneezes. So...
Who will turn first? I'm going pilot. Anyway, a couple passengers
are nervous. Flying and all. Kid yawns cause it's 2nd nature to
him. Random Guy rubs his Random Gal's belly to confirm a Random
Baby that's most likely not going to make it to the world.
"You are now free to move about the cabin..." And everyone pops
out electronics. The kid has a PSP. Says he's going to be picked
up by his "Smother. Step Mother."
Later. Night. Nervous TBGal is Nervous. Hasn't seen her husband in
over a year. Random Guy is ripping someone over the phone and gets
confronted for using the thing. Teacher helps the Stewardess and
then flirts with her. She doesn't really appreciate it, but then
starts acting sweet. I guess cause he's attractive. I don't get it
There's another Random Couple. I'll call them Horny Fodder. Guess
what they're doing? No, they aren't in the bathroom going for Mile
High yet. It's most likely coming, though...
Cut to an old woman with a cat that "never leaves the apartment
building." I enjoy that they're building all these red herrings...
unless they all work, which would be hilarious, too.
Stewardess discuss teacger, again. Fat Guy asks for water.
Breathing heavy. Looks at his hampster bite. HAMSTER
ZOMBIES YES
"I Can Take Care of Myself" kid gets a pop. They write off Fatty
as just drunk. The Teacher is watching a news report on the place
from the first movie. Fatty is getting worse.
Jenny goes to check on him. Then throws up on her. "Stop the plane
and let me off!" We get reaction shots from the other passengers.
Backstage Girl is helping Fatty as the old lady's cat licks up his
vomit. Jenny cleans up real quick. Lets her hair down...
Fatty rages. Rushes to the cockpit."I Can Handle Myself" Kid goes
for a rear naked choke. That fails. Seeing this, a few other
passengers jump up to help. One Jerk is told to help but won't so
that later we'll be happy at the death he has.
Dude, did someone just curb stomp Fatty?...AWESOME.
In the cockpit, head cold kept the captain alert to what was
happening. Nervous TBGal is apparently a medic and checks on the
kid, who may have a concussion. Teacher volunteers to help, but
we know it's his evil hampsters that caused this...hey, where's
that cat?
Jenny and her friend have a private chat. Jenny freaking out about
how she didn't do anything right. Captain interrupts this to alert
them of an emergency landing. It's bumpy. Where's the daggone cat?
In the Horror Closet?
Bumpy, bumpy. Fatty slides and hits his head. Ha? The stewardesses
work to strap him in. Backstage girl gets bit. Uh-oh. Big guy is
roaring like a shark out for revenge. Couple guys force him into
the bathroom. They land.
Horny Couple's Guy is recording this on a camcorder. Control is
telling them to hold position on the ground. Captain is an old
guard guy, so he barks back and takes a spot.
When they open the door, a worker is yelling at them for being
in the work place. Like they care. Sadly, no one is helping the
old paralyzed man so his wife stays behind with him. They go to a
door but it's locked. So worker takes them a different path. Jenny
goes to see how the pilots are. They're hold Fatty at bay, tell
her to go on. So...she does. Uh...okay?
"I can handle myself" kid takes a look at the video game style
platforming location that we'll probably see taken advantage of
later on. Bit girl hasn't talked since. Worker is leading them to
"Tarmac" level. I don't know airplane lingo. More looking around.
Worker gets to the door...Locked. "This has never been locked
before." He starts looking around at other doors. Metal lifts.
Nothing opens. No codes working. They're on Lock Down.
"You ever hear of terrorism?" They're not going anywhere. "This is
not okay." Good dialogue Ms Obvious. So everyone yells at each
other under Medic quiets them down...by shouting "Quiet." Okay?
Sirens. The Kid starts platforming. Cops, Cops, Cops, Fire engines
fire engines, helicopters. "Attention...Do Not Attempt to Leave.
Help is on the way...You are now under Quarantine." And the window
they're looking out gets blocked off.
Everyone gets on their cell phones. Jenny calls her pilot daddy
and leaves a message begging him to call her back and tell her
what to do. Worker called 911. They haven't heard about this.
Another noise. They're lighting up the area. Everyone starts
harassing Jenny as if she knows what is going on. "Just go fetch
the captain, honey." So she asks the Worker for help getting
back to the plane.
He alerts us that he has a 3year old daughter ensuring a death in
his future. Other people say they'll go...mainly for selfish
reasoning. Daggone it. Where is the cat?
Power gets shut off. Oh good, it looks like they want the non-
infected people to have absolutely no chance whatsoever. Again,
no one trust the teacher with the demented Zombie Hamsters.
Some emergency lights on. They make it back to the plane. More
locked doors. Inside...the plane appears empty. Why are my cat
senses tingling? Jenny is scared. Red and blue lights running down
the cabin to build tension. Worker walks in with a flashlight.
Jerk who didn't help barges in. "This is a mess man!" She opens
the bathroom and...there's blood but nothing else. TBGuy wants his
laptop. They look around and pick up some flares. The Parkinson's
guy is still around. Looks down to try and give warning to
something. Maybe the cat took everyone down.
They search. There are 5 of them (minus the man who can't move).
Worker drops into the baggage hold to find the medic's bags. Jerk
comes as well...to find his own bag. The teacher comes down to and
we see a mutant hampster running about. Oh noez. They find the
empty container for the hampsters but teacher isn't concerned.
Jerk's suitcase had a gun in it. A hamster rage attacks the worker
who takes a golf club to it...who brought a golf club?!
Jenny climbs back up first. Sees a bloody laptop. Oh no. Token
Black Guy?! She looks down the aisle and we see headcold crawling
around and snarling. She turns and Infected Captain grabs her.
Worker hops up and battles the infected guy until Jerk shoots him.
The infected guy that is. Bullet doesn't go through thankfully.
We hear a voice over outside alerting people there is a gun inside
the building. They find Token Black Guy. Guess what. He's dead.
They help the paralyzed man into a wheelchair and push him away.
Jenny finds the old woman. "He-l-l-l-l-l-lp me!" And then she rage
charges. So they lock her in a room and try to retreat back to the
others. Which they do.
Hey, the cat lady has the cat. We hear that Jerk got blood on his
face. Nice way to get infected. Medic works on Backstage Girl.Jerk
reveals that he doesn't just have a gun but extra ammo.
Jenny's dad called and said to "Take the stick..." and then all
the cell phones died. She reveals he taught her to fly but she was
too afraid to do it herself...so one day he just let go and told
her to "Take the stick." Sounds like a jerk to me.
So she walks around inspecting weird noises alone like a genius
and finds some blood. Doesn't immediately turn and run. Anyway,
Worker and Teacher have barricaded the woman. Jenny goes to talk
to the crowd and they rabble until Medic tells them to shut up.
She has the power.
"You ask me it looked like some sort of ****ed up rabies." Thanks
worker.
Oh no. Poor wheelchair guy sees a Zombie Hampster and tries to
get attention. Awww. They argue as he stares and tries to groan.
The kid sees the giant rat just as it jumps and bites the poor
man. Daggone it.
For their safety, they load him into a place and lock it. Turns
out the rat is a labrat. The kid points out the teacher brought
the animals onto the plane. They're not Zombie Hampster. They're
Zombie Rats. The teacher tries to explain to Jenny.
"You can't bring labrats...I never would've made it through
security." She instantly buys that. Oh, Jenny...he hugs her just
in time for Fatty to reappear with a rage charge. Where the heck
have you been?!
So they wrap a cord around his neck and group hang him. That works
I suppose. Worker gets a call telling him the CDC is coming in.
The kid goes to Jenny and tells her the teacher is lying.
"You believe him cause you like him." Smart kid.
Enter the CDC with blinding white light...and guns. The one guy
who has been recording stuff is told to turn it off. They take
the Jerk's gun. Because they're too dumb to calmly ask the others
what is happening, they instead order the bitten people to be
unlocked and taken out. I'm sure this will end well.
"You've been exposed, but we don't know if you're infected."
"EVERYTHING. WILL. BE. EXPLAINED!" ~ Repeated line. They're told
to "take the protocol." Cat Lady agrees. IS HOLDING THE CAT!
AWWWWWWWWWWWWW YES! CAT BIT HER!
"THE CAT IS INFECTED!"
They unleash a hail of gunfire at the cat, which somehow causes the
paralyzed man to realize "Dude, I can walk now!" and attack.
He gets filled with bullets afterwards. The CDC guys try to leave,
but are locked in. They have automatic weapons so they shoot the
door open. Camera Guy (Alias Horny Guy) rushes out with them and
they're all gunned down. Bummer dude.
They pull in a wounded CDC guy. A wail is heard in the darkness.
Also, Jerk is infected (blood to face earlier) so we get a quick
cut to black. Everyone non-infected locked in a truck. Okay. 3rd
Act, here we go.
"Each cartridge had it's own color!"
CBDT. Chemical Biological Domestic Terrorism. So the wounded guy
gives us backstory and recaps the first movie. "Rats are the
carrier." Uh-oh, Teach. Anyway, CBDT guy tells them they won't be
leaving, then steals a gun and blows his head off.
So people start breaking down. Worker recalls that there is a
flood tunnel they might be able to use. Nice time to remember that.
Are you related to a forgetful landlord by chance? As he goes to tell them
directions he is conviently attacked by HeadCold Infected. So they
are slightly delayed while killing that guy.
Afterwards, everyone leaves the big container and Worker starts to
lead them to the tunnel. Seriously, HeadCold was just a filler
jumpscare before the next logical step.
As they go, they realize is Henry is missing, then one of the
fodder characters gets got. We cut to Henry (Teacher) locking and
loading. Meanwhile, the group is moving forward and run into
Backstage Infected. Jenny and her have a brief confrontation
before Infected is knocked off a scaffold to the ground, dead on
impact. Awww...I guess.
Worker continues to lead the way and this reminds me of the
fireman from the first movie meaning this guy probably dies just
before they get where they're going. I could be wrong, but I'm
filling time while they look for maps or junk.
Kid stole Teacher's bags and shows that he intentionally brought
the infected rats on board. This isn't really much of a shocker.
I'm guessing most viewers were waiting for the nice guy who 'made
a mistake' to be revealed as the villain.
Worker explains their route, thus making him useless. Infected
people swarm but Teacher arrives and shoots Jerk Infected and
Fodder Infected. Not sure about Cat Infected, but I heard a meow.
Not Teacher tells Kid to give him a box. Kid opens it and looks at
a bottle. "That's the antidote, right?"
Worker charges NotTeacher and gets a bullet. Yeah...there you go.
So, NotTeacher takes the antidote. "How'd you get that through
security?" "The same way I got my rats through...friends."
What a nice non-answer that is.
He's heading to Kansas City and continues to talk about spreading
the plague for the good of humanity. He explains what he's doing
as he does it.
Kid: "What is that?"
Not Teacher: "You're a smart kid."
Huh?!
So, NotTeacher gets to dialogue on how gov't is bad. "Earth could
use a good plague." He then injects himself in the eye with the
antidote while Medic, Kid, and Jenny (The only ones left) just stand
there and watch.
NotTeacher takes the kid as a hostage. The girls split up.
Token Black Infected arrives and chases after Jenny. They run
around for a bit until she gets him into a position to drop
something heavy on him a couple times. Thanks for getting rid of
that plot hole, movie.
So, Jenny continues on and finds another Fodder Infected who bends
over backwards for no legit reason. Medic jump scares Jenny to
show that she found a special seeing device. Thermal vision. So
Jenny puts it on and we see that Medic got bit off screen.
With that, Medic goes to die heroically or something. It's not like
she just saw a guy who had an antidote AND used it in front of her so
she'd know how to give it. Oh well, the script is out of lines for her.
So she calls out to the infected and gets swarmed by 4 immediately.
Great plan you idiot. Didn't even try and run. With those four now
in the general area of Jenny, she decides to leave and chase after
NotTeacher & Kid.
Seriously, why did Medic give up when she KNEW there was an
antidote with the person she was chasing? Anyway, as Jenny moves
forward, she finds mice. "Just mice." She continues following a path.
Really though, what kind of plan is shouting "COME AND GET ME!"
and then standing there until they do? Daggone it, climb some
steps, yell, and run away.
Anyway, Jenny finds Kid. "It didn't work! Don't come down here!"
He begs her not to come down, but she does. She gets attacked by
NotTeacher Infected and her Thermal thing is knocked off so we
can get shots of the struggle in Thermal vision. The Kid throws
on the vision, finds a gun, and shoots NotTeacher in the chest
Nice shot.
"DID YOU GET HIM!?!" Poor Jenny. He gives her the vision so she
can see him. He's still moving, so she grabs something heavy and
bashes him up. They check and neither were bitten.
The Kid goes to explain what happened, but suddenly, the Terminal
is exploding. They really don't want people getting out, huh?
"We're not going to get out of here...I just want to go home!" Uh,
Kid, it's not time to be an idiot. She gives the kid the vision
thing and puts him in a tunnel that she had to break open. She
follows behind him. So we get the vision in the tunnel. Sounds of
more explosions. And they crawl...they crawl and crawl and crawl.
They just crawl...and Jenny gets tired. And breathing heavily.
Then the kid looks back and sees that she was bit on the stomach.
Uh...oh... She starts showing the signs, "I'm infected. Keep
going." The Kid decides to start being stupid and instead of
trying to run stays behind to shout "I'm not leaving you! You
won't hurt me!" Movie, this is taking too long to get to a now
ridiculously obvious end.
So they crawl..and crawl and crawl and craaaaaaaaaaaaawl. And they
get to a way out. Gee, I wonder what happens now? "Jenny! We made
it!" He squeezes out of a...I don't even know. Shouts back for
Jenny to follow. "I'm not leaving without you!" And Jenny attacks.
DUH.
She grabs his hoodie but that's it. Thus the kid walks away, looks back
at an offscreen smoldering terminal, and continues walking.
Then, we cut to Thermal Vision and show that the Cat made it.
YAY, CAT! Wait...
THE END.
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This movie is a lot like the people who get infected during its runtime. Fine for about 30 minutes, starts to show signs of problems, and completely falls apart into a mess at the end. The 3rd act doesn't feel like a finish as much as a patch job. As if the writers went
"Wait, the one guy was shown dead, but never seen again. Someone will totally mention that on IMDB. We got to have him randomly attack her."
"Great idea. That'll fill another 45 seconds at least."
And then they went "Heck with it, just have an explosion. That'll answer their stupid questions."
The best part of this film was the beginning as they built to the actual introduction of the infection. People sneezing. A pilot taking medicine for a sudden "headcold." An older man suffering from a disease (Let's be honest, it could be the old woman infecting the man who couldn't tell anyone. If it can be the teacher, it can be anyone). A fat man who has had "one too many." A doctor with hamsters. So many possible options that the suspense building to the inevitable was rather fun.
I guess I'm saying is that the actual plot hurt the movie. Oh well.
Grade: C-. Worth a watch if you enjoyed the remake (which, in admission...I didn't.). The beginning is really well done but everything after that is sloppy cliche with an ending that tries to twist things up, but mostly recreates the 1st movie (No, really. You suddenly remember a hidden/forgotten tunnel under the area you're locked in?) before throwing out a sequel tease.
So until next time...Can we get a movie with some ZOMBIE HAMSTERS!?
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