First Hit: I liked the style in which it was shot, one camera from a news crew caught inside the quarantined apartment building provided for some interesting shots. However, it was unrealistic in the premise that the people quarantined inside the building would be treated the way they were by the people on the outside.
I really liked the beginning of the film because it starts off with no credits. It just jumped right in with a special news crew doing a piece on “night work”. Everything is shot from this single camera and it worked well in this film.
The news team was made up of Angela Vidal (played by Jennifer Carpenter) as the reporter and Steve Harris playing Scott Percival her cameraman. They become quick friends with a couple of firemen and are having fun at the fire station but then the station gets a call to go to an apartment building. There is no fire but there is a woman in distress because she is foaming at the mouth and there is blood on the front of her dress. Very quickly everyone in the building becomes quarantined by the outside authorities and anyone attempting to escape is shot and killed.
The film quickly digresses from here and what started out as interesting becomes uninteresting. However I did like the ending as it wasn’t typical.
Jennifer Carpenter was effective at the beginning but as it moved along her acting seemed pressed. Harris, with limited screen time, showed his character by his camera shots and one very intense scene when he kills a person with the lens of the camera is not easy to watch.
Overall: There were a couple scary moments, but otherwise it was predictable.