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Brad and Lexi are an unremarkable couple, no different from anyone else. Brad is an out of work musician, while Lexi, his spouse and the sole breadwinner, must face the daily drudge of commuting to her office job each day. The two have just moved into a modest bungalow in suburban Los Angeles, leaving Brad with the task of unpacking their things while Lexi is off at work.

Thus begins the banality of everyday life that is the backdrop for director/screenwriter Chris Gorak's thriller "Right at Your Door". In slowly escalating, turn-of-the-screw fashion, Brad and Lexi's lives, along with those of the entire city of LA, are thrown into panic when, shortly after Lexi departs for work, terrorists detonate truck bombs at various points throughout the city, releasing unknown and potentially lethal contaminants into the air.

Most of us can remember where we were, and the confusion took hold during the Sept. 11 attack on the World Trade Center, and it's precisely this state that Gorak taps into with Right at Your Door. His masterstroke comes from the decision to leave the audience as much in the dark as Brad, as he struggles to glean more info from his radio and whatever phone calls he can make as the networks become overloaded.

His panic and subsequent survival decisions are motivated as much by self preservation as they are for concern about his wife, about whose welfare he knows nothing.

As the city descends into the grip of martial law, Brad faces the task of sealing himself inside the house with duct tape and plastic, only to find himself confronted by the dilemma of what to do about his wife when she manages to make her way home, gravely ill, though the toxic wasteland that LA has become.

The first half of Right at Your Door is as gripping as any movie you're likely to see, however Gorak's screenplay becomes bogged down in chatter between Brad and Lexi that allows the tension to evaporate and only serves to slow the film to a crawl. By the time the story arrives at its climax, it's almost a relief from the stagnation and boredom that nearly kills this initially promising film.

In the end, the movie relies on a twist to bring about its conclusion, and does manage to leave the viewer pondering several "what ifs", which, I suppose, was Gorak's intention. The sad part is, one of those "what ifs" is how much better this movie would have been with a tighter third act.

Unemployed musician Brad is at home when terrorists set off a dirty bomb in LA, where wife Lexi works. Brad manages to seal up the house against the clouds of toxic dust: Lexi manages to struggle home through the chaos and Brad, following instructions, won't let her in.

This small scale movie is quietly horrifying on both personal and impersonal levels as Brad and Lexi start to come to terms with what has happened and its likely consequences. There is a twist which is, frankly, both unbelievable and unnecessary but, putting that to one side, there is an air of credibility surrounding this claustrophobic drama.

It is quite well written, well performed and directed, and moderately gripping. But it is not likely to leave you with warm fuzzy feelings afterwards.

How do you make a modern day disaster movie? The main rule is play on the public fear and what is more frightening than the current climate of terror? So here we have Right At Your Door. A loving couple (or are they?) living together, working apart, he a struggling musician and she a city girl. It's a simple enough story, she leaves for work while he stays home and someone (for it is never said who) sets off a series of bombs across Los Angeles. Panicky husband try's everything to reach his wife before being told to go home. As more information comes through it turns out they were dirty bombs, toxic and lethal. With the aid of a neighbour's handyman, who has nowhere else to go, they reluctantly seal themselves in the house and wait. Filmed in a low-fi, hand held manner adds to the air of confusion and panic that besets the first half of the film. When his wife arrives back at the house in the now grey covered suburb it turns into a strange love/survival story. He's inside and she's out. What transpires next is a series of teary conversations through glass and plastic and via mobiles that could mirror any frantic calls made on 9/11 or 7/7. The film uses fade to blacks a lot to give the impression of passing time because in the hour and a half we go through three days with the separated couple. Help is seemingly not a lot of help at all and a bizarre twist wraps the whole thing up. One of the films most niggling questions is that of is she having an affair? Her reluctance to have sex with her husband, her throw away comment about ignoring the voice mails she has left on his phone and a random male work college turning up at the house to take her to hospital. None of these are explored or answered in the course of the film. Bleak and punctuated with loose ends the film is an uneasy and fictitious look at something that could all too easily be a reality. It's watchable and interesting if slightly flawed and poses questions of love and morality in an uncertain world. Watch right at your door and pray it never is.

This is a movie of two halves. This movie has been seriously over-rated by some critics. It's not a bad idea but there's not enough here to justify a 90+ minute movie. At best, it would make a fair, maybe hour-long episode of "The Twilight Zone" or "The Outer Limits". The tension and confusion at the start well conveys the panic and ignorance of those affected but once action is confined to the house and most of what is going on has been exposed, there is little left to keep the drama going. The over-reactions of characters at times leaves us feeling like we are looking at children rather than adults. In fact, the child in the movie is the only one not to over-react. The twist, when it does come, comes too late. I already hated everyone in the movie and was just waiting and waiting for the death to happen. The fact that the husband rather than the wife initially died really didn't move me. The fact that the wife probably won't die did leave me feeling cheated. She had been close to ground zero and exposed for days so if anyone should die, then she should. For me, there are just too many occurrences that I find implausible.

This is another movie that I will be happy to never watch again.

A basic plot summary follows so you never have to go through the pain of actually watching this movie.

The first half of the story is a tense, feral journey through one man's experiences as bombs, which later turn out to be dirty bombs, explode on the morning commuter crowds streaming into Los Angeles. One of those commuters is his wife and his confusion and panic is increased due to the fact that they are new to the city, that radio reports are patchy and that vital services such as electricity and telecommunications are not working as they should. We follow him around as he desperately tries to track down where his wife is and as he prepares for the worst. Shortly afterward, both he and the Hispanic handyman from next door, who has pleaded to be be given shelter in this man's home as his own is too far away to safely get to safely, finally finish sealing the house, his wife arrives home. She is dusty and bloody and has a bad cough, which is put down to the toxins and microbial pathogens in the dust from the dirty bombs. She is naturally somewhat upset at being locked out but she is not let back into the house despite the difficult emotions and basic instincts involved.

So now comes the awful second half. She then she breaks one of the glass panes with her mobile phone that lands on the floor covered in toxic dust thus breaking the protective seal of the house. The man of the house merely covers this threat with a blanket - implausible act number 1 (and possibly implausible act #2 if you accept that no wife would risk her husband's health in such a way but we'll write that off as panic). Rory Cochrane then repeats his "bug shower" scene from "A Scanner Darkly", but this time with a bottle of bleach, in order to cleanse himself from the toxic dust contact (in fact most of his darting paranoid looks seem to work equally well in both movies). He still leaves the phone and dust covered with a blanket though!! The handyman from next door decides that he has to get home, no matter what the risk, despite his earlier stoicism in the face of this episode - implausible. The wife then finds a child that has come out of a car with its alarm turned on, i.e. the child exits a car in the street, it's alarm goes off - how did he get into it without alarm going off? Who put the alarm on after he got in? - implausible. The wife avoids police, army and helicopter patrols to get to and return from hospital, where the authorities take the kid she's found for treatment but turn her away and let her go. Why then were we shown, in earlier scenes, cops taking people off streets by handcuffing them and bundling them into vans, but now find out that they're ignoring everyone gathered outside the hospitals? - implausible. In the meantime, a specialist group of army technicians and possibly doctors (it's not clear) come to the house, question the sole occupant and take away a sample, for analysis, of the dust that is still just sitting there under the blanket. Wow, it almost sounds action-packed when I type it out. Believe me, it is not. So, we now know there has been widespread contamination outside, we know that the wife was very close to the initial explosions when they happened downtown, we know that she has been exposed to this dust for days and we expect that she must now die. We wait, and wait, and wait for this to happen. Numerous attempts at "moments of emotion" later, the guys in the chem-suits are back. They grab the wife and then .... tell the husband that his non-air-conditioned house has incubated the bomb's organisms and the sealed environment has meant that his house now has a deadly concentration of same. How they can tell the concentration of a virus in the air from a sample of dust on the ground is anyone's guess - implausible! They board up the house, with him still inside, and gas it inside a chemical control tent. The wife is told that she'll probably survive (despite having just coughed up a nice little lump of semi-congealed blood) - implausible. The End!

THIS REVIEW DOES CONTAIN SPOILERS

From the moment that I heard about this film by seeing the trailer, I knew, somehow, that it would be different from any other thriller. And I thought this primarily based on the distributor of the film. Lionsgate Films has now become famous all across the world for licensing forthright, hard-hitting, emotional, and generally controversial films, that hardly any other studio would take on (such as the Saw franchise, Hostel, The Descent, Hard Candy, Crash, and the remake of the British horror classic The Wicker Man). You could pretty much say, that Lionsgate Films have developed a highly thought of position in the film industry, and come across as a distribution company with 'no holes barred'.

Also, the plot line showed a large amount of interest to me. In the time of 'Post 9/11 Paranoia', any film with a terrorism link has developed a huge amount of hype with the media, and this is no exception. Sure, it isn't shrouded in limelight like United 93 and World Trade Centre, but they have reason to be. Any film with terrorism as a theme is bound to generate a fair amount of interest, and if anything, a reasonable amount of tension, and at the start of the film, it does, more than any other film I've seen.

In a way, it is unfair to compare United 93 and World Trade Centre to this, because they are not related storyline wise (well, not as much for United 93. World Trade Centre, maybe). The basic plot line of this film is the main character (Brad), who sends his wife off to work as normal, but the whole situation is rocked by the fact that multiple Dirty Bombs were detonated in Los Angeles. Brad becomes panicked, and is worried sick about his wife. And as the situation worsens, his tensions get higher.

The Film opens with the word of numerous explosions rocking LA. And word comes in that the explosions were from the downtown area and the Beverly Hills area. You can hear explosions in the background noise; you see buildings burning, flames in the sky, and huge clouds of black dominating the LA skyline. You then hear that a bomb has been detonated at Los Angeles International Airport. We see Brad becoming more and more anxious about his wife not being home, her not answering any of his calls, and as the situation becomes more deadly (because we finally hear that toxic chemicals were released in the explosions, and are now traveling in the clouds), then you really begin to feel upset and angry for Brad, because the fact that neither he, nor the viewers, know if his wife is alive or not.

However, from the moment that you find out his wife is alive, and has been exposed quite badly to the toxic cloud, the film dramatically looses nearly all of the tension that had developed in the beginning of the film. The wife (Lexi) plays hell at him for not letting him in after he has sealed the house so none of the toxins can get into the house. In frustration, she throws her cell phone through the window. Which, from a love and humanity point of view, was purely ridiculous, but you will find out why, later on, it was the right thing to do.

So, after loosing most of the tension about wondering whether she was alive or not, the tension now shifts to what happens to her. After he has been isolated from her own husband, and is trapped outside the house. After spending what seemed like an hour to-ing and fro-ing from character to character, we finally have some army guys showing up to find out if people are OK or not. They declare the house as a "Red Flag", then bugger off again somewhere. And then, we're back to the fact that his wife is STILL alive, coughing and stuff after being exposed to the clouds for 3 days.

Then, the army guys come back at the end of the film, take the wife away, and seals the house down with Brad still inside it. It turns out that the house had become a breeding ground to the toxins, and it was growing at a massive rate because of the fact that some of the toxin got into the house when Lexi threw her phone through the window, and when he sealed the house up, the temperature in the house went up, the toxin began to multiply. So, the army boarded up the house, and gassed the house, with Brad still inside.

Now, the major problem i have with that is, If the house had become a breeding ground for the toxin, why was his wife showing far more severe symptoms for longer than he was? I think it was because she was exposed to the cloud sooner, but Brad didn't even start to show symptoms. Meh, i guess a film will have it's plot holes...

Well, aside from the lame-ass ending and the fact we find his wife alive about 20 minutes into the film sort of ruined it for me. The first 20 - 30 minutes of it were amazing. From a cinematographic point of view, it was just amazing, The writing and directing skills of Chris Gorak were just stunning for a first time writer and director, although the ending could have been a lot better

So, i would say 7/10 for this movie.

****SPOILER ALERT**** Let me start off by saying that I have never written a review for a movie: this one was so far flung from reality that I couldn't keep from doing so. In this day and age of terrorism, many seem to feel that this is both a realistic and plausible storyline. Many in this day and age are naïve. For those, this movie rates above 5 stars; for those with any clue, this movie doesn't even rate.

A high yield explosion that is considered "dirty" would contain radiological material, though a layman (or the media) may reference, albeit mistakenly, a contaminated explosive as a "dirty bomb." If a bomb is "dirty" due to a chemical or biological agent, the chemical or biological agent would be quickly eliminated as a result of the heat and blast of the explosion, especially explosions of the magnitude indicated in this movie. Case in point, the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, which comprised 15,000 pounds of explosive, was laced with cyanide (a chemical agent). The reason this was of little concern is that the cyanide was destroyed upon detonation. At ABSOLUTE best, there may be some residual contamination in the immediate area (as seen with chlorine laced IEDs in Iraq), but that would be highly limited in effect.

Furthermore, the ash created from these explosions seems equitable to that of a volcano, not several explosions. As little Timmy is watching at the fence, it's hard to imagine how so much ash could blanket the city and the surrounding communities. Mount St. Helens, yes; several large explosions in LA, not so much. Before you throw out, "what about the WTC in 2001?" That was primarily dust and debris not ash from fire. Oh, btw, the ash is contaminated? This isn't nuclear fallout, after-all. Although, that is probably the only WMD not bounced around in this movie. Speaking of the ash, it's contaminated with a biological toxin, or was it a chemical neuro-something or other? I think by the end it's some sort of toxin, but wait, toxins take less than a day to take effect when inhaled. Considering Lexi was at ground zero (remember the arm on her lap?) when she was exposed and that the concentration would have been at its greatest, Lexi wouldn't have even come close to seeing her house again, let alone hang out on the porch for 2 or 3 days. On that note, luckily they shipped the meds USPS Priority. USPS? Really? I'll leave the ending alone.

For those that know better, yet still feel this movie will at least prove entertaining, please don't.

A lot of people were giving this movie 1 stars. I think that is totally unfair. The movie operates on a very simple premise.

I recommend this movie as an entertaining little rental. It brings out some of the emotions of fear, paranoia, and confusion that people felt after 9/11 using a small budget and set. I commend the film makers.

SPOILERS What if 9/11 occurred, not in NYC... but as a germ warfare attack with dirty bombs? This movie follows one man as he deals with fear, paranoia, potential loss of a loved one, etc.

People have been criticizing the movie for plot holes. They are not plot holes. The character did things differently than they would. That's not a plot hole.

People have also said that the government said (SPOILER!!!) that the house was filled with a deadly variant of the virus and that this doesn't make sense, "how could they know what the air in the house was like". What they're missing is that the government was totally confused all along. I think this helped underscore how our government was giving such mixed messages after 9/11.

I gotta say, I think many of the comments about this movie are unfair. This movie does not deserve one star reviews. Those reviewers have obviously never seen a Uwe Boll movie or Dracula 3000.

Yes, this movie is actually retarded.

The idea is good, I will give them credit for that. But the execution is just a boring movie with horrible editing.

First of all, why do we have to watch a minute of 2 people taping up a house??? 10 seconds is fine, we get the point!!! There are more holes in this movie than in a brick of swiss cheese. The dumbest one is the whole "twist". Supposedly some sort of bomb is spreading an illness to anybody who can't seal their home. The symptoms are severe coughing, and at the end the female main character (who's name I don't care about) looks as pale as a ghost. So the twist is the girl who was outside almost the whole movie, who was coughing, turning white and throwing up, was able to be saved. While the guy who sealed his home, and showed absolutely no symptoms (This guy didn't even sneeze!!), was infected beyond saving. Um... What?! If the guy was so infected, why didn't he show even one sign of it? And why was his wife, who was coughing up a lung, able to be rescued and presumably cured. (I say presumably because you never really know if she was cured or not, you just see her getting medical attention and being told she can be saved)

Then there's the hole that the main character taped up his entire house, and won't even let his wife in. But when she throws a cell phone through a window, he just leaves the ash that comes in his home and does nothing about it. This guy is paranoid as hell and willing to let his own wife die, but he somehow doesn't mind a pile of ash sitting in his kitchen? Then we have to believe that this small pile of ash mutates in 3 days, and becomes what they call "airborne".

If the original "ash disease" wasn't airborne, then why was the whole city getting sick? Why was his wife coughing up blood if she wasn't exposed to the "airborne ash"? We have to buy this BS about the ashes magically becoming airborne. It was snowing ash like it was winter in LA, and all of that ash falling down didn't become airborne. But the little pile of ash inside the main character's house mutated for absolutely no reason. (Don't expect them to explain it, like everything else in this movie)

Every character in the movie (other than the 2 main ones) jump in and out of the movie for no reason. This Mexican guy was working next door, but he somehow decides to move in with the main character. Why didn't he stay in the house he was working in? Then, all of a sudden he has to leave to be with his wife, who no one in his family has seen since the explosion. Then there's the little boy Timmy. He's in the movie at the start, and the main character sends him home. Then halfway through, he comes back, and still he has no purpose. Thankfully, the wife takes him to the hospital, and we don't have to see him anymore. Again, that little boy serves absolutely no purpose in the movie. Then there's the wife's friend. He suddenly shows up at their back door (after a "scary" flashlight scene), and the next thing you know, him and the guy's wife leave to go to the hospital. When the wife returns, she says her friend shot a bunch of people and then drove off. What the? What was the point of him being in the movie?

Then there's the 2 main characters. The movie spends way too much time on pointless dialog between them. The wife is completely annoying. Apparently Mary McCormack (the actress who plays the wife) thinks screaming and being a nut is considered acting. Maybe that's why all she can get are low budget movies. The male main character was flat, boring and irrational. He tapes himself and a Mexican stranger inside his house, but lets his wife in and the Mexican guy out. Then when a bunch of ash gets thrown in (cell phone scene), he just leaves it there. He doesn't even seal off that part of his house. And no, he doesn't avoid that room.

And we can't forget the fact that at the beginning of the movie, the male desperately tries to find his wife (who was downtown). But police sealed off all roads leading to the city core. Somehow his wife gets back home. This is never explained, because you can't explain it. If the male can't get into downtown, how can she get out? If the creator of this movie is retarded, then I forgive him. Otherwise there's no excuse for a bad script and plot. Sure this is a low budget movie. But these types of movies are supposed to make up for their lack of funds with stellar dialog & plot. This movie has nothing. No money, bad dialog, and a slow, boring, pointless plot.

If you like dumb movies, this Right At Your Door is for YOU!!!

The basic premise of this film is one that intrigued me in its simplicity. The story takes place in Los Angeles where a series of "dirty bombs" (germ warfare) have been detonated all over the city. All residents are told to seal up their houses and not allow people who may be contaminated indoors. This puts our hero Brad (Rory Cochrane) in the awkward position of having to tell his wife Lexi (Mary McCormack) who he loves more than anything in the world that she must remain outside in the chaos.

The film moves quickly and while you might wonder how such a premise can be stretched to 90 minutes, it succeeds very well. It captures the frustration, panic and desperation perfectly and shows the wide range of emotions the characters go through.

The longer the characters are isolated from each other, the more paranoid the film becomes. They can't trust the police, they can't trust the media. They have no idea whether or not they are being told the truth and don't know where to go for help. All they have been told is to stay where they are until help comes.

This paranoia is heightened by the fact that the film shows events only from Brad's point of view. The audience knows as little as he does and can only guess alongside him about what is to become of them.

The major failing of this film is in its ending. Throughout the film, I had a nagging feeling that they wouldn't know how to end it and create some big twist to remedy this. I was correct. While the twist was logical and not altogether awful, I just felt that a simpler ending would have been more poignant. For a film that invests so much of itself in the emotions of the characters, it suffers from detracting from intimacy at the end.

Unfortunately, a weak ending is something a film can't quite recover from. Having said that, however, it is still certainly worth a look for the great lead performances and the hugely captivating story.

Starts off quickly and the first 1/3 feels very realistic. Just like what you might do even when sealing off the house with anything you can find. Second third is a little slow as the dynamics between the characters works out. Last third moves faster as you're not sure exactly what is going to happen and the ending wasn't what I expected.

Some people have complained that this isn't what happens if a dirt bomb goes off but that isn't the point. They created an external threat to show us how relations between a couple and between the population and the government occur under pressure. Maybe a little bit too much yelling and then reminiscing. But I found it overall engaging if slow in parts.

Major Spoiler: I found the main male character weak as we are supposed to. He went from loving spouse, stressed out into a blank state by his missing wife to someone protecting his life at all costs and letting his wife die alone. We are told a number of times that he has no family but his wife. He says she is what makes him get up in the morning. So he has no one to leave behind and loves only her.

*But he doesn't let her in and his first excuse was the other person in the house. *When that person leaves to go find his wife, that excuse is gone but he still doesn't let his wife in. *When a child gets involved, he still doesn't let her and the child in. *He lets her run off to the hospital with a neighbour/coworker even though he's hearing on the radio to not go. *When they take her away at the end, he could have been out that door in seconds. It's just locked with plastic duct taped around it. One good pull and it would all open. Instead he pounds the door, but not enough to break the plastic or glass. He lets her get taken away.

So after being weak the whole movie and locking himself in inside, the plot turns against him.

Last minor thing and common in movies, is that sealing the door and windows as happens at the end, always seems to stop the person from escaping. That might if it was a break house. But in any wooden house, you can rip off the gyprock in seconds, pull out the insulation and fairly easily rip out a 2x4 stud. Then you just kick at the outside sheeting until it comes off. Use the 2x4 as a prybar. Even just to punch an initial hole for fresh air. Easier than trying to kick down a barrier over the door. At least this time we can give him an excuse as he was panicking.

The plot twist surprised me. It shouldn't have. The cowardice of the musician husband was appalling. In most movies, karmic justice is swift and stern. Calling the government hotline was not an obviously stupid thing to do. They would have information, and possibly some help; right? But the ending was foreshadowed when the cops shot that guy who stepped out of his car. The guy was confused; but innocent. So, we see the government is not our friend. And don't call the police.

So, the story begins with an average couple, the unemployed musician husband, Brad(Rory Cochrane), is already up, making coffee and running a shower for his wife, Lexi(Mary McCormack). Soon after she leaves for work he hears reports on the radio of multiple explosions in Downtown LA. He tries calling his wife, no answer. So after a bit of walking about the house frantically,causing me to have a headache as the camera was all over the place, he gets in his car to attempt to reach her. He gets a burst tyre and turns into a garage, when he returns to his car the reports now say a dirty bomb was detonated. So he goes back in the garage and gets duct tape to ceil(sp?) the house, then returns home...giving up rather easily on the woman he supposedly loves.

Once home an older Mexican man intrudes on the house and persuades Brad to let him stay. They Ciel the house after waiting a bit to see if Lexi will come home, but, oh dear! She comes home little after they've ceiled the house. Now, again, the woman Brad loves so much, comes home, coughing up blood, covered in smoke etc. Would you not let her in? even if it meant u maybe becoming infected? Considering you want to live and die with this person.

Selfishly she breaks a window, he quickly covers it back up. Later the old Mexican man leaves, to be with his wife..Still Brad isolates his. Lexi goes wandering and sees a small boy, Timmy, who was earlier in the film.

Lexi goes to the hospital with the kid, soldiers in contamination suits come to the house when she's gone and take a sample of ash from when Lexi broke the window. She returns, turned away from the hospitals, and then the two sit there, for a good ten/twenty minutes, talking. The men return and take Lexi away from the house...By this point i couldn't give a damn what happened to the characters, as the acting, story and general presentation of the film has failed to keep me interested or feel for the characters.

The twist. The twist is something that wasn't really a twist, it was in all honesty, as the whole idea of the dirty bomb is to intoxicate all those who encounter it, which the bomb hasn't done. I won't say the twist, but by the time it happens, you won't even care.

Bad story, good initial idea. Mediocre acting, uneventful script, and the camera work was just plain, amateur. I spent £7 to see this film, me and my two friends with whom I saw it with, were very disappointed.

This may have been the worst film I have ever seen, it's certainly in the top 10 worst films. Horrendously poor.

"Right at your door" was a movie conceived on the current terrorism format. From the get go, one settles into believing that this will be man against a more sinister toxic annihilation. We open with a relationship in the bedroom, (Brad & Lexi), that oozes devotion. Brad has doted on Lexi, with candle light dinner. Coffee in bed, He even warms the shower up for her. The affection continues until Lexi leaves for her downtown office & working day. When the explosion is announced, Brad is slowly dragged out of his morning torpor with the horrific realization that Lexi is in the middle of it. He is frantic. Numerous attempts to get to her, with no regard to his own safety, fail. An aging Handyman caught out working on a neighbors house frantically seeks refuge & Brad lets him in. The Handyman has to sit through Brads soul destroying anguish at the realization that Lexi was probably a victim of the explosion. We get 20 minutes of grief, anger, frustration, then mental exhaustion, before he is finally convinced to seal the house against the impending toxic pollution. Then out of the blue, Lexi turns up, & Brad says "You can't come in, you might infect me" SAY WHAT!!! Even when the Handyman explains that it's worth the risk that he be with his wife & leaves, Brad is adamant his skin comes first, but concedes to sealing off a room so Lexi can come in out of the cold. How freaking compassionate!!!! The end comes when the disease police gas the self-centered Brad, who finished up infected anyway, in his own "fort", & Lexi gets a 5 minute paramedic treatment & is told she'll survive. Hooray says everyone,, Now the writers can get back to their crayons. I've seen better plots in a 30 second Ad.

Well what can i say, i sat down in the cinema not knowing what to expect i'd never heard of the movie and had been convinced by a friend to watch it. as the movie started a terrible boredom set in, the script was unappealing, the camera work at times appalling, and the acting that of some 60's b-movie. now i've got to admit i saw lionsgate and thought oh thats the b-movie company, and i was surprised that they had made a non-horror movie for the cinema. but i gave them the benefit of the doubt. There was one moment throughout the whole movie when it evoked some emotion other then boredom and disgust, and that was when Lexi put her had through the back door and dropped the phone and contaminated ash in the house, i felt anger that she would do that to her husband who she supposedly loved (allthough i got no sense of any connection between her and her husband) i feel bad for the actors it was not there fault they got the parts, in fact i admire that they made the appalling script come to life, its not there fault it was badly written. but they need work, the characters were flat and 1 dimensional, i felt myself wanting to leave the cinema in disgust and demand my money back, but i felt myself thinking they could have an amazing ending and that would make up for hours of painful viewing, but i was wrong. the ending was woefully inadequate. the idea behind the movie was great, but it was pulled off in a amateur way. i've seen £100 budget movies that were better then this. if it had not been for the big screen i might have been able to cut it some slack but alas they even chose the format of release wrong. all in all i would recommend that no one watch this unless you are bored out of your mind and have too much money and not enough sense.