Quarantine starts with a local news reporter Angela Vidal, played by Jennifer Carpenter, as she embeds with a fire department. The first ten minutes or so are fun and games, and things don’t get dark until the department gets a late night call.
An old woman has been screaming from inside her apartment, and the police have called fire rescue to help get through the door.
Quarantine from here on in is a fairly formulaic story. There is biting, and chaos as the infection spreads and when the survivors try to fly, they find the city has turned on them. Nobody is coming to help.
Quarantine Scoring
I won’t spoil the ending, but what I will do is tell you I gave Quarantine a 67/100, making it perfect for a Rainy Day. It is at the high end of the Rainy Day scale however, so its got that going for it.
Why?
For me the shaky camera style of filming makes me motion sick, so it lost points for that. It also lost points for the repetitive mistakes. Once you know the infection spreads by bites and fluids, stop getting close to those people. The other thing that cost Quarantine points is that there were no horde scenes, and the combat scenes were all jump scares and relatively jerky and quick.
On the plus side the acting and special effects are top notch and if you are a fan of Jennifer Carpenter, which I am, you will enjoy just watching her work.
If you are in the mood for more, you should also check out Quarantine 2.
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