Pandemic (2009)

Where's the pandemic? That's what you'll be asking yourself after watching this story that has been better told via other outlets.

Jason Connery (The Devil's Tomb) directs this straight to video, para military bio-scare film starring Alesha Rucci as Sydney Stevens, a small town Veterinarian who is called to investigate strange, seemingly viral infections that are killing horses at a extremely fast rate from symptoms to death. A call to the CDC prompts the U.S. Army, under the command of General Matthews (Ray Wise, Reaper), to quarantine the entire county and all of it's occupants. Sydney, along with an eccentric, seriously quacked rancher named Spencer (Peter Holden), they try to outrun the Generals henchmen and get the truth out beyond the quarantine before it's too late.

I seriously wasted good offshore sleep time for this? Excellent plot, horrible execution. Lots of bad acting, no easier way to say it. And whoever thinks that the leads eye-candy helps save the film should be shot. You'd figure after the director made that crap flick with Cuba Gooding Jr (The Devil's Tomb), he'd have learned a few tricks in how not to suck the next time. Even my favorite TV Satan from Reaper, Ray Wise, was uncharacteristically disappointing. However, whoever did the digital effects on the blood vessels really had to have used all the films budget, it was good work. Makeup was on par with better movies as well.

4.5/10

Rated: R
90 mins