Antiviral

2013 "What If You Could Feel Like They Do... We Can Help."
5.7| 1h50m| NR| en
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Syd March is an employee at a clinic that sells injections of live viruses harvested from sick celebrities to obsessed fans. When he becomes infected with the disease that kills super sensation Hannah Geist, Syd becomes a target for collectors and rabid fans. He must unravel the mystery surrounding her death before he suffers the same fate.

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Glucedee It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.
Ketrivie It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.
Marva-nova Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.
Cassandra Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.
The Couchpotatoes The only thing that I can applaud about Antiviral is that it is a story that you never saw before. So for the innovating concept the movie can get some credits. But the actual outcome isn't by far any good as the idea of the movie. They could have done so much more and better with that story. The movie is way too slow and sometimes repetitive. I had to fight against falling asleep more than once during Antiviral and it was not because I was tired. The main character played by Caleb Landry Jones didn't do any good to the movie either. I thought his acting was very monotone and boring to watch. So with the potential of the script I can only be disappointed with the outcome.
seraphin01 Well am not gonna write an essay on this movie, it's just not worth it everything up to the idea behind the movie is way too messed up to sound even close to plausible..Celebrities illness sold to hardcore fans by the thousands, cloned celebrities meat (yeah meat) sold for some fancy disgusting looking restaurant or whatever.. really? so in middle of that kind of messed up ideas you have that guy, he looks as messed up as the story he's stuck in, always speaking as if he's on heavy sedation, whispering horribly (hard to catch everything he says even)..no matter what happen to him you can't feel any sympathy for him, or anyone in the movie for that matter.. you just look at them and hope for the movie to finish soon, there is no fancy twist in the plot or anything on the technical level the movie isn't all that bad even if it does look cheap (probably is a cheap budget anyway it doesn't really matter), but that's not the issue here...really just save yourself some time, skip this movie, and while am at it, the ending is terrible, doesn't make much sense, the way the hero recovers magically and whatever.. gah there is no end to this badness!
SnoopyStyle Syd March (Caleb Landry Jones) works for Lucas Clinic which buys viruses from celebrities to be injected into obsessed fans who are willing to pay. They have exclusive rights to celebrity Hannah Geist (Sarah Gadon) which is very popular. Then he harvests and injects the Geist sample into himself. Others like celebrity butcher Arvid replicates celebrity cells and sells them as meat. Hannah Geist dies and Syd starts to get sicker.This is a great idea for an original indie. The script needs a few more passes to elevate the tension and add some thrills. The idea seems to be all there is in this movie. It's not particularly exciting. It also needs a section at the beginning to do an exposition on what the products are about, the science behind it and the legal ramifications. Brandon Cronenberg should have made a fake TV ad for the product. It's also probably important to bring in the law early to explain the legal world these products exist in. I love the machine that he gets hooked up to. It's definitely has the Cronenberg style. However the movie lacks any energy. It's creepy but not much more than that. I like the weird creepiness. I'm just waiting for Brandon to take it to the next level.
Sci-FiHorrorFan This Film was Boring and i'm surprised i was even able to sit through all of it. The movie doesn't have much of a story and none of the characters are likable or memorable. The Movie actually starts up with a young man Sitting on a bench staring into the distance.(What a Dumb way to start your movie.) The actor who plays this main character is Caleb Landry Jones and quite frankly this guy did nothing for me. His acting wasn't bad but it wasn't good either and his character is rather flat and Boring not to mention weird. I'm sure people have established by this point that this Movie was not my cup of tea. I Like science fiction films but this Story was just unappealing to me. The story is a bunch of people work in this weird clinic its a company that purchases Viruses and other pathogens from celebrities that get sick and for some reason the people in this film want to buy the viruses and inject them into their bodies. These weird people apparently inject themselves with viruses because they want a "connection" with their Favourite Celebrity's. I'm sorry but this idea is simply STUPID and pointless. There is no point to anything in this film and all the characters act like weirdos and frankly i didn't care what happened to any of them not after they had been so stupid. For some reason everyone obsesses over this Girl called Hannah Geist shes a famous celebrity and when Hannah gets sick everyone wants to buy her pathogens,they all get harvested at the clinic and everyone wants some so they can inject themselves!!. I'm sorry but i have to say again this idea is Very stupid. so all these people are willing to make themselves Sick just to have a "connection" with Hannah Geist?.I have a solution that would be much easier than making yourself sick you can simply go out and get a GIRLFRIEND!.Doesn't that option seem much better than making yourself SICK!.of course it does because that's NORMAL which none of the characters are.I understand that this is a science fiction film, i Get that its not supposed to be realistic i GET that! but the characters were just plain stupid and demented that it made me wonder what the writer of this movie was thinking when he wrote the Script.I just didn't care for the script or the directing and as for the main character Syd all he does is spend the entire film walking around like an Old Man!,and i had no sympathy for him because i thought he was an idiot.I'm sorry but anyone who is stupid enough to inject themselves with a virus or pathogens deserves everything that happens to them.I don't feel sympathy for dumb people. I'm surprised that people even think this film is clever. there was nothing Clever about this film, it was different but that doesn't make it clever or good,I thought it was a Boring Mess of a film and as for Hannah Geist i didn't give a flying crap about her,i thought she had No personality and all she did in the film was lay in bed and cry or we'd see her face show up on a monitor a couple of times. she's a good looking Girl but i just found it Sad that everyone was so OBSESSED with her and i found it very weird. there is even a scene where people are at a restaurant eating meat which was grown from the cells of celebrities. this movie just has so many dumb and weird scenes that it becomes laughable at times.there is another scene where Syd is talking with this Fat man about Viruses and the two of them ending up fighting over a VIRUS! which is so STUPID!,and predictably what happens? Syd gets beaten up by the Fat man which i thought looked so LAUGHABLE.There is another scene later in the film where we see Syd yet again walking around like an OLD MAN!.I should probably mention this happens during the WHOLE MOVIE! we just see this pale guy walking around getting sicker and sicker and i'm thinking,why don't you GO Home AND GO TO BED! YOU MORON!.he's then approached by two men in suits and they tell Syd that he's coming with them and Syd didn't want to go but they "insisted" and said he had No Choice and Syd just walks outside with them!.he doesn't try to call for help he doesn't TRY to RUN or Try to FIGHT he just does as the men ask and gets into their car with them!!. what the hell did he do that for??. Is this supposed to be a science fiction Film or just a DUMB Soap Opera?. This film even feels like a Soap at times because most of the time you just have people walking around!. I hate Soaps! And i Hated this Film! it was Boring and it made no sense at times. two men are basically kidnapping the main Character and he does NOTHING And for some Reason There's (Nobody else around) Just like a Stupid Soap WOW how "conviniant". Give me a BREAK! this is a (MOVIE) not a SOAP,so the writer should write stuff that makes sense!. If i was being forced into a car by two men i'd call out for HELP or i'd try and RUN i wouldn't just willingly Go with my kidnappers! That's Stupid!. Then again even if he did call for help no one else would be around to help him.(No one being around) seems to be the new cliché now a days whenever something bad happens. This film was Lame and Stupid and forgettable so skip this BORING film and do yourselves a favour and watch a better film Like Gravity or Oblivion those are better science fiction films and they have better characters in them than anyone in this Laughable Film.