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How sad is this?

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Porter (Sean Astin) is patient zero in quarantine at a CDC facility on some tropical island. He has a natural immunity to the virus. He is there against his will and will do anything to go back to the Shire. Meanwhile Marcus (Mitch Ryan) is going to marry into money with Kate (Claudette Lali). Marcus' wild brother Josh (Brando Eaton) has devised a "bachelor party" which consists of those two, a friend (Ryan Donowho) and Josh's girlfriend Penny (Jillian Murray), a former conquest of Marcus unknown to Josh. They are to take a large boat and go to a deserted island to drink, smoke, and snorkel.It isn't rocket science to figure out that they make it to the quarantined island and have virus issues.Sean Astin took his role seriously. The overall plot was unfortunate. There were gross containment rule violations that didn't make sense. The overall plot was weak as were the characters. The highlight of the film comes at the end with the ugliest cat fight in the history of cinema.Worth a rental.Parental Guide: F-bombs, sex, brief nudity (Jillian Murray and not supermodel Lydia Hearst)

Traveling to an isolated island, a group of friends looking for a bachelor's party in the Caribbean find that a deadly flesh-eating virus being studied on the island has broken free and must find a way of stopping it from spreading before they're all contaminated.This one here wasn't all that bad and had some decent elements to it. Much like the other films in the series, there's more than enough to like here with how this one really showcases the effects of the virus infecting everyone which really has a lot to this one. From the innocent way in which it's contracted, swimming in a lagoon while snorkeling and seeing the remains of the fish completely decomposed and rotting away gives this a solid origin point while the first scenes at the campsite where they come across their affliction are quite chilling with the discovery of the splotchy skin-marks and the excessive bleeding found makes for a wholly impressive start to this one. Likewise, once they finally understand the true nature of what's happening to them this one really picks up with the enhanced and ultra-violent gore effects that leads into the battles in the lab showcasing the infected corpses rotting away while dealing with the aftermath of the experiments of the doctor leftover here in the various tunnels and control rooms that gives this one quite a great deal of action-packed fun. Even the way it manages to go for the big final battles where this one gets involved with the race to keep the infected quarantined away with gun-play that keeps breaking down in a series of brawling and escapes showing their effects of the disease while getting to the chasing and escapes that occur at the beach which makes for a bloody, thrilling series of scenes throughout here. Combined along with the truly graphic and brutal bloodletting which really goes overboard showcasing some rather bloody outcomes, these here make for quite an enjoyable time here. There's a few things that do hold this one down, specifically the scenes with the infected in the quarantine zone against his will which are just quite bland and serve very little purpose for the film. They devolve into the same general scene of him simply yelling at the glass wall about his revenge and illegal capture while not really generating anything for the storyline which just really makes them seem pointless and unnecessary. Likewise, the other real flaw here is the fact that the group's sheer stupidity and inability to recognize danger here gives the first half here quite a bland build-up as it's hard to really care about them when they knowingly stay in the location with their friends getting sick and succumbing to the virus that's escalating out of hand. There's very little about them that makes for an enjoyable time, and gives this one some trouble getting started which hold this one back.Rated R: Extreme Graphic Violence, Extreme Graphic Language and Brief Nudity.

Zero: This has to be by far the worst film I have ever seen, it completely lacks any plot or merit and I cannot say a good word about it. The effects are something out of Hammer House of horror all the gore is shown at night because its poor. There script is like they took two unfinished Horror films and cobbled them together. Please do your self a favour and do not watch it.Acting is on the amateur level, and the Dialogue is repetitive, starts poor ends poor and characters are shoehorned in during the middle of the film for padding.You have to wait till the end credits till there is very little closure to the movie.utter Garbage

Horror and gore: Decent acting. Good cinematography. Decent surroundings and sets. Script as can be expected from its genre, which means run of the mill "surprises", shock, and screaming, peppered with gore and ickyness.This one starts as a slow-paced guys' excursion to a tropical island, and, via some nasty flesh-eating virus infection, ends up as an unintentionally comic splatter movie, which at points reminded me of Braindead, though it is nowhere up that the standards of that classic. Not much more to be said without spoiling the experience. It's still good entertainment, though. Worth watching on a night with the guys, though at all not memorable.