Really Surprised!

Good start, but then it gets ruined

Excellent, a Must See

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Carriers is nothing special but it would make a reasonable addition to the apocalypse shelf of your collection. It fits in the psychological/drama side of the genre and explores how two young couples deal with losing everything in the world they know.I found the premise and plot progression basic and fairly realistic. I don't know if people who have been exposed to the horrors of a pandemic would be as stable as these 4 acted, but the young are nothing if not resilient.Possibly the hardest thing to believe was Brian ditching Bobby almost on the spur of the moment when they find out she is infected. I felt it could have been portrayed differently. I get that they are all adjusting to abnormal societal expectations and responses, but to heartlessly ditch someone who you've shared your mind and body with would be very difficult.Overall it's a pretty good, honest movie with just enough action to keep it moving. Be warned though, it is very slow.

This was a missed opportunity to write, what could have been an intriguing movie. The opening scene clearly delineates the tempo, which crawls rather than moves, of the movie and also the future occurrences. The predictability is bothersome and transparent. The characters are shallowly presented and highly unlikable, and and in my opinion, frankly deserved whatever happened to them. An adequate synopsis of the title would be: Beer swilling protagonist imbecile drives around the desert, drinks, drinks more, acts like an imbecile some more and then expires. As far as the ending it appears more likely the money for the project ended, once they saw what had been printed.

This movie sit on my shelf for a really long time since I finally decided to check it out.The result: Well made flick when it comes to technicalities. It's clear that director(s) know their staff, camera work is pretty solid for the first time directors. There wasn't nothing outstanding here, but again, movie wasn't hard to look at. It had descent camera work, nice photography for it's budget (unfortunately, it doesn't look much different then any other modern movie) and acting is rather good, especially from Christopher Meloni who plays Frank and Chris Pine as Brian.but then comes the script... Altho, not really bad itself, but it could have been so much better if this movie was made as R rated movie, mixed with some intense scenes (I am not saying gory, just intense!) and bit more of action. Instead, screenplay wanted to be character drama, which raises few of the movies problem.First, we are given rather bad opening scene. Group of four people are driving and shortly after start of the movie we are given moralistic scene. One of the characters yells "She's got it! She's infected!" Infected from WHAT exactly? Then the panic and moral scenes start to roll whatever should characters do with those two other characters have met. Now, this would be OK scene (since it's well acted) if it was moved further into the movie. At this point, we don't know who are the character we are watching and what their dilemma is. There's also no introduction (even slightest in form of narration) what the infection really is or why is it so dangerous (one of the main problem of the movie actually).After that, movie completely goes into character driven story, with little to no action. I don't mean action scenes in sense of car chasing and gun shooting, but in terms of "something interesting is going on". Here we have just driving and more driving. I usually prefer character driven stories (more or less, which depends on type of a movie or genre), but the problem with this movie is that while it's characters are strong and easily identifiable - all four characters (five including the father of little girl) are unique personality - they are not very interesting or likable (but I'll give it a credit, there is a character growth in three of the main character). First half of the movie is well paced, and it's easy to watch it without losing interest, but second half drives more into character drama and slows down movie immensely... which ties with one of the major problems in this movie - all of the characters just keep talking how dangerous the infection is, yet we never see or feel it in the movie. As my title say, SHOW, DON'T TELL. Movie is a primarily a visual medium, and you should show us exactly why infection is THAT dangerous. If it's just said by characters, we will never get the same impact as visually showing it might. In that regard, we cannot relate to character's drama or moral panic. Second, characters yet again keep telling about isolation since most of the world's population is dead, yet again, much like with the infection, we don't see or feel that, and since most of the time characters are just driving in their car, we might as well think they are on just a road trip, not trying to survive the apocalypse.Some other movies have done the same concept way better this exact same promise (look up "28 Days Later", where when one of the characters screams "Wolf!" you really believe there's a wolf and danger that comes with it). Watching this movie I had a strange feeling that writers\directors of CARRIERS draw their inspiration from "28 Days Later" (similar themes, also both containing scenes with military guys that are equal danger to main characters as much as infected), so why they didn't go for the same vibe???Also, CARRIERS lacks any atmosphere, tension or vibe, and it lacks any gore scenes that will make up for it since it's PG-13. On the movie's defense, it's well structured, but it's suffers from not being too horrific for a horror, and not being not enough dramatic for drama. And what's up with ditching two of the characters that we spend at least half the movie's time, then never hearing anything about them again???and yet, after all the criticism I am going to defend writers\directors, because it's clear that they have talents, but they just missed "IT" factor with this movie. Hopefully there will be more of their movies and they will improve their craft.OK movie to watch, it won't hurt, but if you're fan of gory, fast paced or action oriented horror, it probably won't suit your taste.

This is a gem in Germany, they even offer extreme limited editions over there. For other countries it's an almost overlooked flick. That's sad because it do offer a few things.I can't really say that this is a horror flick, this is more a thriller because it's about 4 friends having to survive the virus attack that turns you into a zombie in stead of being attacked by zombies. Slowly the friends run into trouble and when one of them is being infected the characters become the most important thing here. It's not bad at all but being a horror geek I thought that it would offer more towards the infected but it doesn't. No problem, you can see the trouble coming once they pull over for a car in need.It never becomes rather gory or bloody. The only thing that is rather messy and even that's a bit low is when they ran again against a car with two elderly women in it. It's a nice entry in the post apocalyptic genre with believable acting. It never bored me because the ran into different situations every time. Gore 0/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 3/5 Story 3/5 Comedy 0/5