An agent named Elsa (Sonya Walger)with a degenerative disease tracks a young woman calles Jess (Hayley Erin) fleeing inexplicable symptoms in this science fiction thriller. As their chase narrows to the mountains of the Pacific Northwest, holes in Elsa's investigation start to fill with fresh bodies.
A thriller full of suspense, chases, intrigue, terror, and also human drama about illness in the modern world. The film features two interesting stories focusing on the two main characters: a mysterious, deeply desperate woman who is relentlessly on the run, and an older woman, an agent tasked with pursuing her, who suffers from a known degenerative disease. Their two stories intertwine inextricably throughout the film, culminating in suspenseful conclusions. The sad and twisted stories converge as the stakes in the relentless pursuit reach apocalyptic proportions. Interpretations are pretty well, such as Hayley Erin playing a woman on the run, desperate to cross the Canadian border to escape her past. A resourceful agent whose recent life-altering diagnosis leaves her one step behind. The casting is fine, giving adequate interpretations from the main actresses, Haley Erin, Sonya Walger (Lost) who, along with Tony Amendola (Once Upon a Time, The Chosen), are all eminently television actors. More popular main and supporting actors are missed, but we are really looking at a low-budget film.
It belongs to a genre that in recent decades has produced several films about viruses, bacteria, and other microbes that cause apocalyptic situations, among which the following can be included: ¨Outbreak¨by Wolfgang Petersen, ¨Carriers¨ by Alex Pastor, ¨28 days later¨ by Danny Boyle, ¨28 weel weeks later¨ by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, ¨Contagion¨ by Steven Soderbergh. This ¨New Life¨ can be compared in quality to the previous ones but has a lower budget, to which must be added a chase theme in the style of ¨The Fugitive¨ by Andrew Davis.
The film features a spiritual, strange, supernatural musical score by Mondo Boys, whose peculiar sounds have also accompanied films such as The Inheritance, The Right Hand, Fatman, uin Hide Fight, She Dies Tomorrow, among others. The motion picture was well written and directed by John Rosman, this is his debut film. However, until almost halfway through, hardly anything interesting happens, just a simple presentation of the main characters and minor incidents. It is from minute 45 onwards that the film rises to high levels of tension, intrigue, and movement, thoroughly captivating the viewer who until then was somewhat bored and asking many unanswered questions. ¨New Life¨ rating: 6/10.
