Guzman plays Good Scientist to Ricarte's Bad Scientist: Guzman's patient while Ricarte's eye is always on the clock. Still, this introductory scene does establish an interesting parallel between the first film's no-nonsense cops and scientists like Dr. It's a jolting start to the film, though it's filmed in a graceless, run-and-gun style that makes the film's opening feel crassly cynical when it should feel unnervingly sudden. They cite "rules" and then unsentimentally shoot each other. These men know what's expected of them if they get infected, and are prepared to kill each other if anyone in their group is bitten. At the start of the film, we're shown a perfunctory, but tantalizing flashback to the end of "." We follow a SWAT team as they fend off zombies in a dark apartment.
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Then there's the movie that " 4: Apocalypse" should have been. Balaguero and co-writer Manu Diez never set emotional stakes that are so deep that they can't just pull them up on a scene-by-scene basis. There's nothing wrong with the film's formula-based storytelling, but rather its creators bland execution. Explosions, blood, and gore fly around them, and then you go home. She spends a lot of the movie figuring out what's going, then capably dispatches monsters with the help of capable military men like Lucas (Cripulo Cabezas). Even Angela, a heroine that's set up to be the "" series's answer to Sigourney Weaver's Ripley in the " Alien" movies, isn't especially compelling.
In fact, the film quickly devolves into a collection of pointless confrontations featuring bland characters who are only interesting when their lives are in danger. While " 3: Genesis" was the first to ditch the franchises's lame found-footage conceit, "Apocalypse" still features pointlessly nauseating hand-held, dimly lit cinematography. " 4: Apocalypse" is easily the laziest in the film series. But inevitably, one of the scientists' other test subjects-a zombie-monkey-gets loose, and Angela and the ship's crew must fight for their lives. Ricarte are trying to make a retrovirus to stop the zombie outbreak.
Angela wakes up after the events of "" and discovers she's been pre-emptivley quarantined on a ship by a group of army scientists. " 4: Apocalypse" is, by and large, a predictable, and needlessly ugly-looking horror film. The rest of the film is a bland survival horror film that pits a bunch of forgettable human protagonists, including Angela ( Manuela Velasco), a news reporter and the sole survivor of the first "" movie, against a horde of equally disposable flesh-eaters.įirst, let's deal with the movie that " 4: Apocalypse" is, then double-back to the movie it promises to be. Instead, director Jaume Balaguero, the co-helmer of the first two "" films, sets up an interesting villain, and then shifts gears completely. Sadly, that weirdly paranoid characterization of clinical scientists isn't developed beyond a point. Ricarte (Hector Colome), a strictly-by-the-book scientist who blithely experiments on humans and monkeys without considering his reluctant test subjects' needs. The New York Times.The film's creators are fundamentally mistrustful of scientists like Dr.
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Quarantine 2: Terminal takes the series in a completely different direction with its own rules and mythology different from those of the Rec series. Although the sequel's plot picks up directly from where Quarantine leaves off, it is not a remake of Rec 2. Quarantine 2: Terminal was released in 2011. The first film was remade in the United States as the 2008 film Quarantine. Īctor Javier Botet portrays Tristana Medeiros, the series main antagonist. The series lead protagonist, Ángela Vidal, is portrayed by actress Manuela Velasco in all the films except Rec 3: Genesis. Spanish company Filmax is responsible for the production of the REC franchise and released all four installments. Rec was followed by three sequels Rec 2 in 2009, Rec 3: Genesis in 2012, and Rec 4: Apocalypse in 2014 as the final installment in the franchise. The original 2007 film was shot in Barcelona, Catalonia and the title is an abbreviation of the word "record", as it appears on a video camera. Rec (stylized as ) is a Spanish supernatural zombie horror film franchise.
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