Eradication

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Marco L @decatur555 Nov 23 (CASTELLANO) A veces, lo peor que le puede pasar a una película no es ser un desastre absoluto, sino quedarse en tierra de nadie. Eso es justo lo que le ocurre a Eradication. La premisa suena bien: una pandemia, un protagonista aislado y la idea de que en su sangre puede estar la clave para salvar al mundo. Sobre el papel, podría haber dado para un thriller tenso, claustrofóbico y lleno de suspense. El problema es que la ejecución nunca está a la altura. El bajo presupuesto pesa demasiado, y lo que en otros títulos se convierte en creatividad aquí se siente como limitación. El guion alarga situaciones sin aportar nada nuevo, y el ritmo cae en bucles que resultan tediosos. Muy pronto el espectador intuye por dónde van los tiros y pierde la paciencia antes de que llegue el desenlace. La fotografía tiene algún destello interesante —como el contraste del traje amarillo en medio del bosque— y se nota cierto esfuerzo en intentar levantar la propuesta visualmente. Pero cuando lo que falla es el guion, poco se puede hacer para salvar la experiencia. Los personajes tampoco ayudan: son planos, poco desarrollados y, en el caso del protagonista, incapaces de sostener el peso de la historia. En un género saturado como el de los infectados y pandemias, Eradication no consigue aportar nada nuevo ni sostener lo poco que plantea. Se queda a medio camino de todo: no es lo bastante intensa, ni lo bastante emocionante, ni lo bastante coherente como para enganchar. Una propuesta fallida que, más allá de algún detalle técnico, se olvida tan rápido como termina. (ENGLISH) Sometimes the worst thing that can happen to a film isn’t being a total disaster, but ending up stuck in the middle of nowhere. That’s exactly what happens with Eradication. The premise sounds promising: a deadly pandemic, a protagonist isolated in the mountains, and the idea that his blood might hold the key to saving humanity. On paper, it could have worked as a tense, claustrophobic thriller full of suspense. The problem is that the execution never lives up to the concept. The low budget weighs heavily, and what in other films becomes creativity here feels like limitation. The script drags scenes without adding anything new, and the pacing falls into tedious loops. Very quickly the viewer guesses where things are heading and loses interest before the ending arrives. The cinematography offers some interesting touches —like the striking image of the yellow containment suit in the forest— and there’s a clear effort to elevate the visuals. But when the script is weak, there’s little that can truly save the experience. The characters don’t help either: flat, underdeveloped, and with a protagonist who simply cannot carry the weight of the story. In a genre as saturated as pandemic and infection movies, Eradication doesn’t bring anything new or manage to hold up what little it proposes. It ends up halfway in everything: not intense enough, not exciting enough, and not coherent enough to hook you in. A failed attempt that, aside from a few technical details, is as forgettable as it is fleeting. See more Nov 15 I'll save you two hours. Slow movie about a dumb man who is one of the last people left on Earth who hasn't been infected by a zombie/vampire virus. He is being kept alive to be used as a blood bank by his infected wife and the remaining infected members of a US government extermination program. By the end the moron managed to get his wife and himself dead, find another uninfected survivor, and lure him in to replace him as their blood bank. There is no cure. The only thing keeping any of the infected from turning completely into mindless monsters is uninfected blood which ironically is the only thing that made him special. See more Jeffrey P Sep 20 Starts okay in the post-apocalyptic remains of a world devastated by a global pandemic. The mystery it sets up is decent at first but it just ends up going in a different direction that ends up nowhere. See more andrea c Sep 1 Sci-fi horror che cerca di sfruttare il grandissimo hype per il genere ma che, nonostante qualche buona idea, si perde in troppi vistosi errori di noncuranza. Se la trama porta con sè un'idea interessante che teoricamente potrebbe tenere con il fiato sospeso fino alla fine, lo svolgimento lascia parecchio a desiderare. Tanti, troppi sono gli errori visibili che pongono punti di domanda a cui non c'è risposta, proprio perchè si tratta solo di sviste marchiane. Basti pensare alle sequenze di azione, con grandi difetti di progettazione e di esecuzione, ma anche alle dinamiche di tempo e soprattutto di spazio, totalmente confusionarie. Una casa in mezzo al nulla da cui in realtà si giunge facilmente a zone con infetti e che viene facilmente raggiunta da persone random che ascoltano la radio. Anche gli attori non aiutano particolarmente, non riuscendo a creare grande enfasi. See more @emill_santos Feb 3 Sayang oras. Di mo malaman kung anu o sino ba ang tunay na kalaban: virus, zombie, bampira o drone ba. See more Mad M 11/03/2024 It's a weird one this film. This review pretty much summed it up. See below after my review. It's trying to be a new age deep movie I think with some hidden meaning. It's actually a pointless movie with zero story. It has some good set up, ambiance, music is good with some good effects and cinematography. Other than that there is nothing and it's completely naff. See this guys review below for those that won't claw anything at all out of it which will be the majority of people. It's a shame because it's such a wasted opportunity. It's like being thirsty for a drink and instead of pouring a glass of water you set a sponge into a bowl and wring it out across multiple bowels just for a small mouthful. Pointless..... utterly pointless and a waste. The other guys review which will be accurate for the majority of people watching this: "You get to listen to an egg timer for an hour and a half Thats it". "A man in a house in a forest". "Something about a virus". "Then just an egg timer for the rest of the film going off every minute or two". "Atrociously bad". "Stay away at all costs". "The only way it could be worse if it was a baby crying for the rest of the film instead of the egg timer". "If it was any slower paced it would have been dead on arrival. If it was any more pointless it would be a beach ball". "Someone should have slapped the director/writer in the face early on". "Who would want to listen to an egg timer go off every minute for an hour and a half?" "Its incredible. So bad its unbelievable, might go down in history as the next 'The Room' - but far far more annoying." See more Read all reviews

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