Inclubabu Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

Twilightfa Watch something else. There are very few redeeming qualities to this film.

Ella-May O'Brien Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Skyler Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

jak8836 I don't want viewers to walk into this movie expecting a cheap horror flick because this is not that. The Returned is a very serious drama taking the zombie virus into an entirely new setting.As the plot is summarized, this movie is a world in which the zombie virus exists and is controlled within the infected by a special protein; these people are "The Returned." They live just as regular human beings and function normally, but must inject their cure once every day to maintain this. However, supply is running desperately low. Now, it is highly easy to assume that, because of this, the plot would decide to take a horror-esque route with the infected turning into reanimated corpses and wreak havoc. That doesn't happen. The film stays very close knit to a serious drama and does it brilliantly.Very seldom is there gore, in order to keep the infectious setting believable. These moments, as well as other scenes, are shot using horror techniques, but in no way build horror movie tension. The tension is built strictly through the story and there is a lot of it. The first two acts find it lightly sprinkled, while the third act roller coaster's the viewer to the end.The characters felt very genuine to the world they were in. I, personally, felt so much compassion for the cast within the film that whenever something terrible did happen, I was horrified and hoped for a positive outcome. I won't spoil the details of these plot elements. The story writer(s) was incredibly good at weaving in these minor story elements in the first two acts that foreshadowed events that would conclude in the third. Most of these were very subtle moments that would have been otherwise overlooked, but tied all of the loose ends of the film so neatly.Overall, The Returned is one of the best films that I have seen in a long while and I am very happy that I didn't pass it up. Of course, I wasn't expecting it to be anything but a horror movie. It's well written, has some great character development and does carry a lot of tension. My only complaint is that the movie advertised itself as a horror movie and mislead an entire audience.

chrismackey1972 This was a very unexpected take on the zombie storyline. I thought it was going to be a Direct-to-Video garbage movie. Instead, we got an original, well thought out movie that had a good storyline and good characters in the two leads. The acting was very good, as was the flow of the movie. I highly recommend the movie. I will say that the end when Kate finds out the synthesized version works, I kinda guessed that would happen. I loved that she was hunting Jacob and...whoever his girlfriend was. I would say it seems like a sequel might be in the works, but I doubt it, unless they called it something like The Hunt, with Kate hunting them down. Did Kate remind anyone else of Kate Mara? Anyway, good movie, and I was pleasantly surprised by the originality of it.I gave it an 8-star rating for the reasons posted above. I will say, this is not exactly a zombie movie, but more of what happens post-zombie outbreak.

Liam Blackburn Just why?....why is a movie like this even made....The plot is so predictable, the characters are one dimensional, why.....oh why. THe only good things about this movie are the soundtrack and the cinematography. These aspects are done very well. So if this is a movie made to showcase someone's camera work and musicianship then it is a success. But clearly, we all know that isn't the case. No.....some human, actually wrote this screenplay and got behind the camera to direct this movie. I don't want to know who this person/people is/are. But whom ever they are....they should choose another career, because they are not good at it. This movie and others like it get made all the time....most likely by people who inherited large sums of money and fancy themselves arteeests....BUt no....no they are not. Just another example of the proliferation of humans, we need a zombie apocalypse to weed out these redundant minds, please zombies awake.

catfanatic888 For the record, I will start out by saying I LOVE zombie shows, movies, etc. so I didn't have much hope for this film since it only received a 5.8 on IMDb. HOWEVER...I was pleasantly surprised as it is as dramatic as it is suspenseful and the leads are both quite good. It is a new twist on the zombie premise but a fascinating one. It really makes you think about how far YOU would go to help a loved one in a dire situation despite the laws and professional ethics. That really put a new element of emotion in this film. I'll be honest...I prefer a zombie show like The Walking Dead but I still enjoyed this effort and the really great cast also. It was filmed in beautiful Canada which added richness and beauty to the outdoor scenes which was also delightful. In conclusion, I watched it on Netflix and think you might like it, too. Give it a chance and you may very well be pleasantly surprised, too.