semielco For the frightened characters this film is a harrowing plane journey away from disease and death, for the viewer it is an enjoyable flight from superstar blockbusters. In a world where computer effects replace stories and superstar names replace actors, this film attempts to tell a story with honesty and consideration. No overuse of cartoonish CGI, no wisecracking superhero, in fact most scenes don't even have loud music pumping through them because there is actually proper dialogue to listen too instead. What music there is is always well-placed and appropriate, especially the gentler compositions. Certainly, some scenes and situations have been done before, but thats because such scenes are realistic and at any rate, that 'criticism' applies to all movies. Indeed, to all art. This absorbing movie does try to take a couple of unexpected decisions that work well. The Carrier also manages to give the impression of being just one story in a whole complex world of other stories. That in itself is a rare and highly commendable thing.The ending is the perfect consequence of what has gone before. In summary, this a a good take on the pandemic setting; a more than acceptable script is complemented by good performances all round and good use is made of the limited setting.The fact that Billy Clarke isn't an acting superstar is a sure sign that mainstream cinema is in a deep crisis of quality. I'd take The Carrier over SuperDuperMegaHeroPowerMan6 any day, purely on the basis that it is much, much better.

Brian Sohn This film is definitely good thriller. The characters are acting reasonably, the main dilemmas are actually answered in the movie: 1) why main characters try to stay in a plane: because they believe they can land in non infected city. 2) why infected characters want to board the plane: because they believe somewhere else could be a cure. One note: the movie starts so quick into the plot, kudos to the screenwriter here. SPOILER here: I kinda liked the ending. Basicaly, such kind of story cannot have too good ending anyways. The story quite lags in the middle, because the intentions of some characters are not clear: for instance, what they intended to do with infected on-board, how would they know the amputation even slow down infection etc. The cast is good too, definitely for the genre. The movie is overall better than you would expect and fun to watch (beside the depressing subject), try it out.

thekarmicnomad The world is going to hell in an antibiotic-resistant- plague powered hand cart. Soldiers are shooting people dead on the street and the suburban houses of the infected are set a blaze.A bunch of people manage to get aboard a plane and make a dash for it. Locked in to a confided environment, with the potential of infection aboard and the world burning below, this is dynamite.Production, acting and writing are sufficient to carry all this off and is very tense and moving in places.Happy days?No. The problem with this film is the plot. To unfold the way it does the characters have to make one shockingly ill-thought out choice after another. You know in horror films when the guy goes down in to the cellar on his own just to find out what that scrapping noise is? Well every single character in this film does this, about every six minutes.This sounds nit-picky for what is essentially a sci-fi film; but it is so annoying it distracts from the film."Hey Gary I'm just going to pop out and have a chat with this guy who has been trying to kill us for the last twenty minutes.""Right-oh Fred, want to take this gun with you mate?""No I'm sure it will be fine. Just sneeze into my mouth for good luck"The ending reaches an appropriate climax but I was left wondering what was the point in it all.Good acting and production hung on a distorted framework.

vengeance20 Saw this on the shelf in a supermarket for £7 & thought to buy it as I was intrigued by it's synopsis. Though I had different thoughts after watching this film. The Carrier, global incurable virus which is swarming the United Kingdom. A 747 Plane full of 8 survivours is in the sky avoiding the chaos which is unfolding 40,000ft below them. But a few of the survivours are infected & things begin to spiral out of control!The film itself was lacking in kills & dramatic action which I was expecting from looking at the DVD cover & the trailer which looked promising! I mean something along the lines of 2010 remake, The Crazies which not only had a fast paced & great story-line, but had loads of mad things going on in it! It never gets old & is watchable over & over again! If that had been combined with this film it would've been so epic!But this is not the case with this film, which was slow to begin with & kind of messed up with what one of the protagonist's was doing which made little to no sense! Though the beginning & opening credits were pretty cool it did have me wondering how this film was going to play out!The effects which a little bit cheap & but somewhat better than other CGI films with far worse effects & editing! The ending was by far the worst I'd ever seen! It just ended on a cliff hanger (Which I hate!), it literally made me feel abit cheated!I overall would give this film an average rating of 6/10. The film could've done with way more chaotic action & kills. Not to mention the biggest killer in films today with boring drag on story-line! Which could have been cut dramatically!