If you're looking for a smart, engaging, thought-provoking movie about a pandemic skip this movie. It is slow, pointless, confusing and annoyingly vague about what's going on here. So the girl gets sent on a plane to stay with her boyfriend's family, but oh, she's from there too? Why is her dad such a crazy a-hole? Why are they forming a militia and shooting soldiers? She's attacked and stabs the guy, but then she's injured too? How? Is she sick at the end or just injured? Why did I spend an hour and a half waiting for this movie to get interesting and it never does? This seems like such a vanity project as the writer also starred in the movie, but is it a star turn if it bores the hell out of the audience? I've seen council meetings on C-SPAN that were more interesting than this waste of time. Too bad because the set up was good and it's incredibly timely, but then it goes down the toilet fast. Watch Contagion or the documentary 76 Days if you want a good pandemic movie. Hell, even Outbreak with Dustin Hoffman and Cuba Gooding Jr, whose better than Ben Affleck, is more entertaining than this drivel.
Review of Before the Fire
