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Boring viral outbreak movie is given some gravitas by the presence of Danny Glover as scientist working to find a vaccine against the deadly outbreak, but Glover is little more than a glorified supporting character who's scenes were shot almost entirely on one set and probably over the course of a day or two. Yep, that's the low budget nature of this cheaply made film. Vinnie Jones is the other name actor in the film. If you want a cool low budget viral outbreak movie, check out "Carriers" with Chris Pine before he became famous as the new Captain Kirk instead. Or check out the bigger budgeted Spanish language film "Last Days" by the same writer/director brother team who made "Carriers.
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Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars
01/31/23
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What a complete load of rubbish! The acting was awful and as soon as the annoying teenagers came on screen, I completely lost interest. All I remember was this stupid virus that was killing everyone but apart from that, I haven't got a clue about the plot. Danny Glover, who was playing a doctor who was making the virus, has really gone downhill lately and Vinnie Jones plays the usual cockney hard man who is working for the baddies. My expectations for this film were pretty low from the get go, so I'm not surprised that it turned out to be so awful. I won't go on about the film anymore because it just not worth the time or effort. Rubbish!
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This awful movie was written and directed by Jason Dudek, who brought you Open Mic in 2001 and Legacy in 2008. Its not really surprising that his movies are unheard of, because if there anything like this one, I doubt that they will ever get an audience. Maybe he should just stick to watching films except for making them? Same goes for Vinnie Jones!Â
I recommend this movie to people who are into their drama/sci-fi/horrors starring Taylor Handley, Danny Glover, Vinnie Jones, Margo Harshman, Beverley Mitchell and C.S. Lee. 1/10
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01/18/23
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A movie that's destined to be played at 2 AM on the Syfy channel. So this is about a pharmaceutical company, working to develop a vaccine. Of course, the only way to perfect this is to treat people with the disease, so they infect an isolated house full of people in the middle of nowhere. This is one of the cheapest made films I've seen in some time. While it can be admirable to make a movie with a bare bones budget, you have to realize the limitations of trying to do more with less. You shouldn't try to have special effects if you can't afford it, you should write your way around it. For example, if you can't afford to go to an airport to film a plane landing, you shouldn't settle for the cheapest CGI plane out there, you should just cut to the character getting into a car. The two big names tied to this are Vinnie Jones and Danny Glover. Neither of them have a whole lot to do, nor do they do anything that would require much more than a weekend's worth of filming. It's really all of these kids in the house that you spend all of your time with, and they are all green actors that don't really show any promise, and I don't suspect we will hear from any of them ever again. Nobody in here gives a committed performance, and as a result, it never completely holds your attention, as you never get to the point where you care what happens next. The symptoms for this made up disease are incredibly inconsistent, so much that the effects vary to differing degrees within the same scene, i.e. killing one person, while another walks away with no ill side effects with the same exact exposure while standing right next to the dying person. It really is on par with Syfy original features, but you could probably deduce that from the plot description alone. Any budget that they had was clearly spent on paying Glover and Jones. It's hilariously inexpensive for what it attempts to do, and for that, I suppose that you could watch this ironically if you really wanted to appeal to your hipster sensibilities. I would love to give this a "watch with friends and beer" recommendation... but I can't. There's really nothing here that makes this worthwhile, and laughing at poorly conceived special effects can only take you so far. It feels overly long even for an 80-minute runtime, and while it didn't make me mad or anything, there's just so little to say about it other than the low production values, which is already a negative.
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars
02/26/23
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Vinnie Jones and Danny Glover reunite to prove that technology has not yet reached a stage where effects-driven B-movies can have CGI that is realistic, or even un-laughable.
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars
01/22/23
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Toxin adds bland but forced amateur hour acting and long, boring drama to a (for a change) PG-13 "teen horror zombie movie".
With stock footage of CGI "viruses" and absolutely awful special effects (yellow-green virus particles badly floating mid air, pink blood) and a movie framerate that resembles a handheld, Toxin feels like a first-year student's passion project rather than something primed for release, well, anywhere. Just look at this gif: https://plus.google.com/104771776404197897488/posts/dExSbXVFEkW . A person being introduced to special effects for the first time in their life would have done better.
The movie feels unfinished with beginning party scenes missing music (or maybe that was intentional?) and extremely pointless scenes of the lead hanging out with his hoarder grandmother, discussing random irrelevant objects (hopefully meant to be cut at release time). A basic glossary of biology terms would have been useful to the moviemakers, too - bacteria vs virus vs vaccine vs serum vs antiserum - all this seems to confuse them greatly.
Danny Glover and Vinnie Jones are at the rock bottom of their careers - even Vinnie's role in Gotham, the series, was better developed than this - and while it's nice to see that Beverley Mitchell can still find a job, this is not the comeback she needed.
It's like those responsible tried to replicate the most boring parts of The Walking Dead, and failed. Avoid unless you appreciate a good laugh.
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars
02/24/23
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