★ 5 / 10
I'll save you two hours. Slow movie about
Aaron T
I'll save you two hours. Slow movie about a dumb man who is one of the last people left on Earth who hasn't been infected by a zombie/vampire virus. He is…
I'll save you two hours. Slow movie about a dumb man who is one of the last people left on Earth who hasn't been infected by a zombie/vampire virus. He is being kept alive to be used as a blood bank by his infected wife and the remaining infected members of a US government extermination program. By the end the moron managed to get his wife and himself dead, find another uninfected survivor, and lure him in to replace him as their blood bank. There is no cure. The only thing keeping any of the infected from turning completely into mindless monsters is uninfected blood which ironically is the only thing that made him special.
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★ 3 / 10
(CASTELLANO) A veces, lo peor que le puede
Marco L
(CASTELLANO) A veces, lo peor que le puede pasar a una película no es ser un desastre absoluto, sino quedarse en tierra de nadie. Eso es justo lo que le ocurre…
(CASTELLANO) A veces, lo peor que le puede pasar a una película no es ser un desastre absoluto, sino quedarse en tierra de nadie. Eso es justo lo que le ocurre a Eradication. La premisa suena bien: una pandemia, un protagonista aislado y la idea de que en su sangre puede estar la clave para salvar al mundo. Sobre el papel, podría haber dado para un thriller tenso, claustrofóbico y lleno de suspense.
El problema es que la ejecución nunca está a la altura. El bajo presupuesto pesa demasiado, y lo que en otros títulos se convierte en creatividad aquí se siente como limitación. El guion alarga situaciones sin aportar nada nuevo, y el ritmo cae en bucles que resultan tediosos. Muy pronto el espectador intuye por dónde van los tiros y pierde la paciencia antes de que llegue el desenlace.
La fotografía tiene algún destello interesante —como el contraste del traje amarillo en medio del bosque— y se nota cierto esfuerzo en intentar levantar la propuesta visualmente. Pero cuando lo que falla es el guion, poco se puede hacer para salvar la experiencia. Los personajes tampoco ayudan: son planos, poco desarrollados y, en el caso del protagonista, incapaces de sostener el peso de la historia.
En un género saturado como el de los infectados y pandemias, Eradication no consigue aportar nada nuevo ni sostener lo poco que plantea. Se queda a medio camino de todo: no es lo bastante intensa, ni lo bastante emocionante, ni lo bastante coherente como para enganchar. Una propuesta fallida que, más allá de algún detalle técnico, se olvida tan rápido como termina.
(ENGLISH) Sometimes the worst thing that can happen to a film isn’t being a total disaster, but ending up stuck in the middle of nowhere. That’s exactly what happens with Eradication. The premise sounds promising: a deadly pandemic, a protagonist isolated in the mountains, and the idea that his blood might hold the key to saving humanity. On paper, it could have worked as a tense, claustrophobic thriller full of suspense.
The problem is that the execution never lives up to the concept. The low budget weighs heavily, and what in other films becomes creativity here feels like limitation. The script drags scenes without adding anything new, and the pacing falls into tedious loops. Very quickly the viewer guesses where things are heading and loses interest before the ending arrives.
The cinematography offers some interesting touches —like the striking image of the yellow containment suit in the forest— and there’s a clear effort to elevate the visuals. But when the script is weak, there’s little that can truly save the experience. The characters don’t help either: flat, underdeveloped, and with a protagonist who simply cannot carry the weight of the story.
In a genre as saturated as pandemic and infection movies, Eradication doesn’t bring anything new or manage to hold up what little it proposes. It ends up halfway in everything: not intense enough, not exciting enough, and not coherent enough to hook you in. A failed attempt that, aside from a few technical details, is as forgettable as it is fleeting.
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★ 8 / 10
A little confusing to start but it picks
Dean S.
A little confusing to start but it picks up the pace and has a good ending.
A little confusing to start but it picks up the pace and has a good ending.
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antivaxxers sold too much of their own 'pure' blood and now their brain doesnt function but no one can tell the difference based on their posts here