Gerry and Karin have two daughters; they are stuck in traffic when they start noticing something strange is going on. A bomb goes off, there’s total chaos, people running, and Gerry can see that strange-looking people are attacking other people, biting them, and in twelve seconds those victims become attackers too. He escapes with his family and head toward a supermarket or something, because they need a medicine for one of the girls’ asthma and like many others they took all that they might need. Gerry learns from his old contact Thierry that the plan to contain ‘the situation’ has failed, whatever it was and he must join them because they need him to go back working for them.
In Newark, Jerry sees a lot of ‘zombies’, or ‘infected’, run after other people and yet they pass a homeless man sitting down at the side of the road without even noticing him.
They find a bit of rest inside the house of little Tomas’ family. When it’s time to leave, Gerry tells them to go with him, that ‘movement is life’, and nothing more. Of course they refuse, who would risk their family’s life leaving a locked house to go wandering with a stranger, outside where all the monsters are? Now, here is detail n. 1. We don’t see Gerry explaining that they ‘simply’ needs to reach the roof, is it possible that he said that off-scene? It doesn’t seem like that at the moment, and it kinda felt that maybe had he explained that to the man, maybe he would have thought about it more, whilst ‘movement is life’ made one feel like walking and walking across streets full of monsters...
Anyway, Gerry’s family goes but find monsters while trying to go upstairs. Meanwhile Tomas’ house has been attacked and he’s escaped running to join Gerry. Karin and the girls are out but Gerry has to fight a zombie and some of its blood falls on his face and mouth. As soon as he frees himself and steps on the roof he immediately runs to the border, ready to jump if he felt he was turning I suppose. It’s a very good scene, I liked it. He counts, then explains that he drank their blood, but for some reason that’s not enough and he’s fine, he doesn’t turn a zombie. A helicopter brings them aboard a ship; the US President is dead, many are missing, and since Gerry was once a war investigator they ask for his help now in escorting a young brilliant doctor to try and find out a cure or something.
Gerry doesn’t want to go, he wants to stay with his family, so he’s told in plain words that if he doesn’t agree they won’t be allowed to stay on the ship. To guarantee his family the safety that ship can give them, Gerry agrees and leaves for South Korea. The first case they know of was from there, so the doctor is sent to investigate this ‘infection’. As the plane lands they go out and it’s not long before the first zombies appear, and the doctor panics and turns to run inside, but he slips and falls down and accidentally shoots himself... yes, he didn’t even land properly and he was already dead. Now, they sent Gerry and other soldiers because they knew he couldn’t make it on his own, so who the hell had the brilliant idea to give him a loaded gun?
Gerry starts his investigation: the base doctors had looked at a dead soldier, obviously not noticing when his eyes rotated in a funny way (aaargh) or his fingers started itching, and finally attacked him.
They tell him of one of them, a soldier walking with a limp who was in the room with infected people and yet they never touched him.
They have there a CIA man who seems a bit crazy, locked up because he sold weapons to North Korea, and he says that in Jerusalem they knew it before it happened, that they contained the situation with big big walls keeping the infected out. That’s why Gerry’s next stop is Jerusalem.
They need to refill the plane and use bicycles to move silently because zombies are attracted by noise (screech screech screech is not exactly silent but anyway) . They are halfway when Karin calls... so the zombies wake up and attack. The captain is turned and shot down :-(
Once in Jerusalem, he asks how could they know it. They had intercepted an Indian message talking about zombies, and investigated.. anyway they build big big walls and accept inside new people everyday because one more person saved means one less zombie to fight. Outside the walls there are many many zombies, but inside the walls people feel secure and they sing and shout and anyway make a lot of noise :-/ and Gerry doesn’t say anything until it’s too late. There’s so much noise that the zombies are irresistibly drawn to them and they start piling up along the wall outside, until some manage to get to the other side and it’s total chaos. Gerry is escorted away but some soldiers; he notices an old man and a very very thin boy being completely ignored, with lots of zombies running past them.
They must fight their way out: a soldier, infected, blows himself up, another one is with Gerry and when she’s hurt he quickly cuts off her hand trying to save her and yes, she doesn’t turn.
Running away together, they see a plane who was supposed to land there but seeing the situation was starting to fly away and the two of them board it.
Gerry thinks about all the things he saw and reaches the conclusion that the monsters don’t attack the sick. He calls Thierry and asks where he can find vaccines and stuff like that and his new destination is now the World Health Organization. They all thought they were safe but it turns out that somehow, who knows how, there was a zombie in a closet and when it comes out the infection starts spreading. Gerry and Segen the soldier try their best to fight them off, but there’s too many, basically everyone on the plane but the two of them and the two pilots, so Gerry uses Segen’s grenade and when it goes off the monsters are all sucked out of the plane. Of course now the plane crashes down. Gerry wakes up badly hurt because something got stabbed in his side, through and through, but Segen helps him walk until they finally reach the W.H.O.
They cure him there, but he remains unconscious for three days. After 48 hours had passed without him calling, someone ordered Thierry to send Karin and the kids away... wow that was quick :-/
After three days Gerry wakes up to two suspicious faces, the doctors want to know who he is and why he is there, so he has Favino-doctor make the call and Thierry explains that he is with the UN, and of course Thierry has also to explain that he answered the phone because Karin has been sent to Nova Scotia. Gerry explains why he’s there: at first they misunderstand and say that they thought of that but there is no chance to infect the monsters, but he explains that he’s reached the conclusion that they don’t attack the ill, so they need lethal diseases that can be cured. Of course it’s not a cure, but merely a disguise, but still it’s the only hope they have at the moment.
The problem is that all the samples are in another room, and there are 80 zombies between them.
Gerry goes with Segen, and the Favino-doctor goes with them to show them the way or he might get lost in there. They try to keep as quiet as possible, but in a big empty place it’s easy sooner or later to make a noise, and the zombie attack. Gerry tries to distract the monsters so that they can get to room 139, but when they are almost there there are so many zombies between them and the door that they have to run away, and they run back to safety, with the others opening the door just the time to let them through. Gerry now makes it to the room, and he starts taking all sorts of stuff into a box intending to take it to the doctors and they’ll know what all that is. Problem is, outside the door there is now a zombie, he has no weapons and no other way to go, so all that remains is to test his theory himself hoping he gets lucky, because he doesn’t know what he’s injecting himself with. Still, he does that, injecting one at random in his arm, and then he waits a while, who knows how long, basically until the zombie makes a noise waking him up... and then he opens the door.. and the zombie doesn’t want him, doesn’t bite him, and he can simply walk his way back. There’s still a lot of them at the door where Segen and the doctor escaped, so Gerry makes some loud noise to get them away from there. All the zombies run towards the noise, running past him completely ignoring his presence.
As soon as he reaches them he is injected with some antidote to whatever he had used and then Gerry and Segen leave. I must say, whatever it was he didn’t look ill at all.
Gerry goes to Nova Scotia to reunite with his family of course, but his voice narrates the ending, saying that this is not the end, that entire cities have been lost but now they have a chance. The cold slows them down so they’re still fighting them in Moscow, and there are survivors here and there all around the world, and with this new discovery they can all rise and fight them and destroy them all, and this is actually the beginning of the war to take the world back. It’s been ‘almost’ the end of mankind, but not quite, and people can now fight back and burn them all.
Karin-Mireille Enos
Thierry-Fana Mokoena
Segen-Daniella Kertesz
W.H.O. (o centro di ricerca dell’OMS) doctor: Peter Capaldi e PierFrancesco Favino
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