The Crazies (1973)
3/10
I don't care who directed it, or how socially conscious it is, this stinks!
1 April 2014
Warning: Spoilers
Poorly acted, poorly filmed, no production value, and very, very, very BORING! I've definitely had my fill of people running around in whites and gas masks for another millennium! Nothing actually happens in this film! It's all just a bunch of bureaucrats sitting around at a command post and talking about things happening elsewhere!

Plot: A guy with "brains" and only one eyebrow is caught in an epidemic of insanity, which mainly causes a bunch of non-paid extras to lolly-gag around trying to decide whether they are drunk or just happy to be part of a movie. The film is a bunch of really bad actors following a really bad script while being filmed as cheaply as possible.

Some relevant observations:

Antibiotics are not prescribed to treat viruses!

People do not always hit someone every time they fire a weapon!

Cheap sets and fx are not a virtue!

People have no peripheral vision while wearing a gas mask!

While they had the chance, the producers of this film would have served humanity better by dropping a real nuclear bomb on Pittsburg, Pa.!

This is one of the worst films I have ever watched from beginning to end.

The only reason I watched it all was because I thought something interesting might actually happen before it ended; boy was I wrong!

George Romero is not a genius, he's a one-hit-wonder!

Even "Dawn" was better as a remake. Only "Night" was better in the original.

This film is hard to find for a good reason—it stinks! If you haven't been able to watch it, be thankful for the wisdom and kindness of divine providence!
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