QUARANTINE is hit and miss as a film. It takes the same film style that has been seen in BLAIR WITCH PROJECT and CLOVERFIELD. The second did the best with the video camera format as the audience watcheds the events that were filmed by film stuck in the thick of it. CLOVERFIELD's one flaw was the cardboard characters that I just wanted to slap (the only thing I could get behind was the guy going back for the girl that loved him). QUARANTINE has a leg up on CLOVERFIELD with more likeable characters. It's plot made me expect more. A news reporter (Jennifer Carpenter) and her camera man follow fire fighters on a call to an apartment building that is sealed off by the CDC. This zombie film starts out good, but the screenplay suffers from the flaws of so many films that start witha great story. The characters get stupidier to serve the plot as the film goes on and the build-up to the ending (which is spoiled in the trailer) fails to live up to something great. QUARANTINE ends on a whimper.

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