Taking Earth |
South Africa • 2017 • 100m •
  • Directed by: Grant Humphreys. • Starring: Ronan Quarmby, Brad Richards, Barbara Harrison, Marco Torlage, Richard Sorensen. • Music by: Josh Cruddas.      An unexplainable event that has thrust the world into chaos brings two survivors together as a portion of the worlds population presumably infected by a strange outbreak, hunt them. These Infected Ones (IO's) seem motivated by an obsession to rein chaos with a need for tasting blood. The two survivors; David (Ronan Quarmby) and a teenager named Cameron (Marco Torlage) form a bond as they try to find their lost loved ones, but the young man has a secret about the outbreak -' all is not as it seems.
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Growing up in an era of men in rubber masks and pans on a string, I find all CG looking kinda good. However the soundtrack had a faux made-for-TV element to it and the acting were kids who got kicked out of high school drama. The dialogue, except for maybe that one F-word, was all for children. Alien Garabon (Brad Richards) had a fancy for Porsche and caffeine. I always believed in my heart that Starbucks and German automotive engineering would be our contribution to the Federation Galaxy...if not, then Internet porn.
And PLOT SPOILER- maybe. A character "dies" at the end and has one of the worst dragged out death scenes I have ever seen, making spoof death scenes look real...you know the ones where the actor grabs their chest and staggers across the set knocking over furniture, making a second pass, finally going to the ground, kicking their legs up in the air a few times, and then has some final remarks before they do it all one more time. Okay, maybe not quite that bad, but I was screaming, "Die already!" The script was dreadful.
Review by Michael Ledo from the Internet Movie Database.
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