the leading man is my tpye

ridiculous rating

Far from Perfect, Far from Terrible

Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

Ten years after a weird plague, a recently-released ex-con and his ex-wife find that the formerly comatose children afflicted with a strange plague have suddenly awakened and gone on a vicious killing streak across town, forcing them to find a way to survive.While it did have some problems, there were some good points with it. One of the best ones is that this one really gets a lot out of the initial stages of the plague and the reactions here, from their comatose appearance and the daily grind of their preparations for the seizures, carries quite an impactful tone here as at times, it's pretty suspenseful. When the plague is wearing off and all the chaos starts, this is golden as there's plenty to like about those scenes with the abandoned high-school trying to overcome the massive influx of kids running around the hallways and into the different rooms here with the fantastic action encounters in the laundry room and out in the hallways leading to the first escape attempt. They're creepy, unnerving and quite unpredictable whenever they'll appear out of nowhere as it does manage to provide some nice gore while the film has a really impressive body count. There's a large number of kills in here, including a fantastic-looking broken leg that comes out of nowhere and the after-effects of many victims are often found with missing flesh and blood splattering the location very heavily, making them all entertaining. These, though, are the only good factors about it while this here did have a few pretty major problems. The film's biggest problem is that the film makes no sense at all as there's nothing at all offered here as to why the plague started or what the intent was. The consequences that apply are brought up in this, but none of them are officially given as to why this was going on, as well as why that particular target was affected by this plague. None of these areas or issues are ever explained in here, and they make the film seem like a slapdash effort with nothing important about it and not really that well thought-out. There's also a big explanation problem with the ending as this one simply ends with one of the most confusing moves possible. There's no way this is taken any way other than confusion, and this is one of the most upsetting aspects of the film. There are several other areas in here that don't work. The fact that this is simply a zombie movie without the fact that they're actually called zombies in the film. This has all the trappings of a zombie film through and through, with the same type of clichés that these films offer, as giving this as a zombie threat and made more sense. The last big problem was that the plot line about the two teens being mistaken for the children doesn't really come off that well. As it's a major plot-point, this really needed some big payoff to make it work and instead, it's a really weak one that doesn't serve the film any purpose other than to add to the body count. This here really had some big problems with it.Rated R: Graphic Violence and Graphic Language.

In response to mentalcritic's statement: "No explanation is ever offered for why these now-adolescent characters have the urge to eat the living things around them, leave alone how they would have sufficient muscle to stand under their own power after having been comatose and convulsive for ten years."An explanation for how they would have sufficient muscle is offered in a deleted scene, actually an expanded version of the scene where David feeds his comatose son Eric and talks to his brother Tom. David explains how twice a day the children's bodies go into convulsions. Far from weakening them, he explains, this strengthens and builds up their muscles.Rarely does deleted material give me the feeling it really shouldn't have been deleted, but this is one example.

This movie had potential - a great plot...but there where so many things wrong with it. There was TERRIBLE acting especially in the scene where the children started to have seizures. The setting for this movie was boring I mean why choose a simple small town when you could have it in a big city like Paris, New York, Las Vegas etc. The intro was uncreative and long, it almost looked as if they had made it on windows movie maker! This movie could have been better...a lot better! It seems the producers spent more money on the movie cover than they did on the actual movie. The synopsis fooled me but please don't bother,this movie is truly dull and boring.

You have all probably seen this before. No, you have seen this before. If you have seen Village/Children of the Damned, there is no difference. A few hours vs. 10 years. Same thing.Once the children come out of their coma, then it is more 30 days of Night as they are zombified (not zombies as they never really died) and they start killing off everyone.The violence escalates as they learn to anticipate and use weapons.I thought James Van Der Beek did a fairly good job, and I also liked Ivana Milicevic. Tom definitely redeemed himself as everyone could certainly empathize with his actions that sent him to prison.