I have become aware of the need to drink bottled water from exotic locations after watching this small town apocalyptic horror/suspense/thriller about a "town-gone-bananas" from a contaminated water source. Fiji water from now on for me. You MAY be thinking, "Hey, isn't that the same storyline as Cabin Fever 1 and Cabin Fever 2?" I will tell you now, "Yes, yes it is fellow movie watcher." However, there is a noticeably different feel to the movie and plot which allows this film, The Crazies, to have its own position in the "contaminated water" film genre that we all know and love. A true suspense film to the very last, I really was entertained by the film. No awards by any committees on this one, but an exciting, fun movie nonetheless.
After an unknown water contamination reaches a small rural farm town in Iowa, it is only a matter of a couple days when all HECK breaks loose. Sicknesses causing men and women to turn psychopathic erupt as an outbreak and the next thing you know, the government is quarantining the town in hopes to stop this horrid illness. As you may have guessed, the quarantine did NOT go as planned (or the movie would literally be 20 minutes long) and a series of chases, gore, and "edge of your seat" moments lead you along as a husband cop (Timothy Olyphant) and wife doctor (Rhada Mitchell) do there best to evade the whack jobs in the government and the whack jobs who are literally whack jobs.
My Elementary Grading Scale: Progressing Satisfactorily
1-10: 7.5
The direction is impressive with much attention to detail taken from behind the camera. It's especially comforting that the director didn't depend solely on violence.
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