10.9.11

Somewhere in the production ladder of Quarantine 2, there was a coward.


I can't say if it was writer/director John G. Pogue, or one of the myriad producers or investors, but a mistake was made during the film's climax that compromises the effect they're going for. While not a found-footage film like the first one, Quarantine 2 elects to go first person for a theoretically tense sequence in the last act.

Obtaining a set of heat-vision goggles, the main character uses them to find her way through the theoretically pitch-black tunnel system.



I say theoretically because although, from a narrative standpoint, the tunnels are supposed to be completely black for a good reason - they're ten feet underground and have no power or lighting - this is how things actually look when the film cuts back from the goggles to a third-person perspective.



That right there is more visible than the daylight scenes of AVP2R.

Why the fear, filmmakers? Did you really believe that the audience for your movie wouldn't accept five minutes shot from a first-person perspective? That the action would get confusing for them?

If that's the case, I feel like they're forgetting something - that the (theoretically successful, explaining the existence of this movie) first film was told entirely from a first-person perspective, and that all 80 minutes of its action were confusing.

Also, it looks ridiculous to have a person that we can clearly see-



Flailing around like she's in absolute darkness.

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