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And heartbreakingly so. I understand this film is near impossible to get a physical copy due to the company tanking and only a small release done, with no English subtitles, leaving nothing but a file floating around with perfect English subs. But i'll cherish it. The prequel was amazing to me, I find the reviews here mostly pedestrian dribble, though a few see the glory this film has to offer. I was stunned by how the backstory of Gunnar moved me, which can sometimes be a downer when you make a killer worthy of a little empathy. But it worked well in this one. I love the way all 3 films followed a different trope and path. Pretty much giving a trilogy of 3 different slasher subgenres yet perfectly connected in one story arc. Razzies to the haters, you've become too jaded to find the fun in films IMO, or you could be that dreaded sad creature known as a "Critic" which pretty much equals your opinions irrelevant to a real audience. Personally I love this film and it gave me everything I needed in a fantastic slasher and a prequel to a storyline. Now to just find a physical copy somehow.

Not being a snob against low budget and indie films, I had no issue giving this a chance, it seemed slow at first, but I feel into it within about 15 minutes, my curiosity then turned to anxiety, and then to some nice nervous energy. The last 45 minutes really earned it a nice 7 from me. This almost seemed like a low budget prequel to 28 Days Later, and personally the "Sick" look of the infected in this movie looked more scary to me than the aforementioned film. It really was a decent little effort IMO and I enjoyed it a great deal. I've seen much much worse. I've actually decided to hunt this down to add to my collection, managed to find a DVD on the Big E to purchase. If you're into indie horror give this one am honest chance.

I'm often amused at the jaded and self absorbed state of the average IMDB user. It's so often clear that they have allowed themselves to devolve (Sadly so) into near automatons that USE to be film lovers only now to be wanna be "critics", whom like that sad profession, have lost the ability to find satisfaction outside of a very limited scope of their own "Prefect drug". Almost as though once they've seen a masterpiece they cannot appreciate any other painting that cannot smile the same smile as the Mona Lisa they beheld. Or cannot find the same rush from that perfect HIT of whatever their drug of choice may have been.

This movie is perfectly fine, it is a low, but adequate, budget thriller with sci-fi elements about an assassin in the vein of the Manchurian Candidate where mind control is in question. Meyers and Gigandet are fine, as is the rest of the cast. The story is played and told well, with adequate doses of action, tension and wonderment as our protagonist begins to break his brainwash and seeks to discover who and what he is, who has created him and why. Not to mention what to do about it once he begins to break their holds on him and his own mental bonds., Gigandet makes nice eye candy and does a good job in his role, and Meyers does well in a role of his usual flavor...that being charming and deceptive, manipulative and usually on the wrong side of the villain fence.

In the end it s satisfying ride, a good time and nice little movie. It's not a masterpiece, and only a fool would go into thinking it was or even should be, it's not Citizen Kane. It's an action thriller. Get over yourselves and try to get some of your ability to have fun with film back.