We follow a group of survivors as they desperately try to find a cure for the disease and watch as they are slowly torn apart by the new highly intelligent and ravenous creatures. Obviously aiming for sequels that might explain the plot of this movie, but it's a commercial failure so it won't get any. He is welcomed inside, taken to Mr. Church, sees Rudy with a gun to his head, and is forced to agree to join the DMS in their fight on terror. When it finally does swing into macabre matters, the switch feels like a sudden shock even though the movie quietly conditions us for horror all along. Joe questions Skip Tyler and Oliver Brown about them going missing under suspicious causes as there is a mole in the DMS. When they capture the intelligent The Professor (Stanley Tucci), they learn that the infected breed is also seeking out their patient zero and Morgan is the one. I’m often unforgiving when it comes to inconsiderate cellphones illuminating a darkened multiplex mid-movie. Church returns to the DMS base called the Hanger in Floyd Bennett Field, and leaves Joe and Grace in charge of the Warehouse in Baltimore. With the majority of the global population infected by a super-strain of rabies dubbed “Mad Dog Disease,” the few remaining medical and military personnel bunker with refugees in a hidden subterranean silo. A super-strain of rabies jumped species to infect humans, turning anyone afflicted into a “28 Days Later”-type maniac hellbent on tearing flesh with teeth and bare hands. Jerry Spencer, a former Baltimore Police Crime Scene Inspector that worked with Joe in the past, to join the DMS and learn what he can from the horrible scene at the crab plant; He is the best at what ae does. And that a pharmaceutical company, or something in the industry, must be behind this terrorist group, in it for the money. Immortal, able to keep his consciousness and higher brain functions. Well, it also describes 2018 thriller “Patient Zero,” a movie mimeographed so heavily from George A. Romero’s zombie classic, it could almost be considered a remake. 7. I probably would have leaned over for a look myself, since odds favor that a quick check of current weather conditions would reveal a more meaningful mystery than this movie has. But that’s like saying drowning is better than immolation or strangulation when asked to choose between three ways of dying. Morgan is surprised to discover that Michael does not become enraged when music plays like other infected do. Sebastian and his assistant Toys destroy El Mujahids’ bunker in Afghanistan where the disease was being developed and kill Amirah who has also taken generation 12 of the pathogen. Gina and Morgan bring their findings to Knox’s superior Colonel Pierce. “Patient Zero” ridiculously races to its credit scroll too, hoping the rush can hide the fact that a proper ending isn’t included. Top battles with Skip, who turned out to be the traitor, while Joe takes down El Mujahid in an intense close-quarters fight that ends with Joe taking off Mujahids’ head with the blade of a table top paper cutter. Many scientists and officials do not like the term and they try to avoid the term all together. Joe has a hunch on an impending attack, a possibility from the intel they’ve found. The drama is explained away by their dire situation, and Rudy joins up with the DMS as well. A modern update of Day of the Dead, Patient Zero is a frightening horror-thriller. … Expand Rudy then vanishes, taken by the DMS to the warehouse, and Joe heads out to rescue him. Has no real ending. Not only does that make Morgan’s blood unique for administering temporary inoculations, it makes Morgan the only person capable of communicating with the infected. “Patient Zero” can’t come up with any inspired scenes, effects, performances, or pieces to sustain its setup. When you have to kill the same terrorists twice in one week, there is either something wrong with your world or something wrong with your skills... and there's nothing wrong with Joe Ledger's skills. Another infected captive, oddly more sentient than the rest, could hold the key to finally uncovering a cure. “Songbird” is something of a cinematic cousin to that celebrity cover of ‘Imagine,’ i.e. The three of them recover Gina’s research samples and escape into the bunker’s ventilation system. The best thing I can say about “Castle Freak” 2020 is that it feels like a “lost” Full Moon feature from the 1990s, and I mostly mean that as a compliment. Joe is returned to his car and advised not to try and look for any information on Church or the DMS, because he won’t find any. 6. - As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. https://theledgerfiles.fandom.com/wiki/Patient_Zero?oldid=4097. Bunny, Gus, Grace, and Rudy saved as many lives as they could at the main event, many were lost and turned, but the entire outbreak was contained. A group of doctors, guards and violent prisoners on St. Leonards Island unite when a rampant disease threatens the high security units. Patient Zero is the first novel in the Joe Ledger series written by American author Jonathan Maberry. Gina discovers she is pregnant with Morgan’s baby. Patient Zero, with two point blank shots from his glock .45. In turn, I can’t come up with any more creative adjectives for describing it besides “average” at best and “derivative” at worst. Patient Zero est un film réalisé par Stefan Ruzowitzky avec Matt Smith (XI), Natalie Dormer. Gwyneth Paltrow’s character Beth Imhoff is patient zero. Try waking up a…, Blu-ray/DVD New Releases - March/April 2021. At the crab plant, Echo team is on a look-and-see mission only, with Alpha and Bravo on back-up. 3. A Seattle detective and a biologist are on the run from a dangerous invisible assassin gone rogue. Movie: Contagion Critical Thinking Assignment 1. Who is patient zero? Meanwhile, an infected captive breaks loose to bite an attendant’s arm, forcing an emergency amputation. Suddenly, the zombies being held for study by the DMS get out of the lab and attack the staff. Patient zero is an on-the-edge family man imprisoned like a lab rat while scientists endeavor to discover why he exhibits no symptoms despite carrying the virus. Morgan realizes that Pete and Michael allowed themselves to be captured so that they could find and broadcast the survivors’ location. You think a down website is inconvenient? Joe is then put into a room with five other candidates to decide who the leader of the new team will be, big and tough looking guys from Marines, Force Recon, and the like. In that regard, “Patient Zero” may be a more tolerable watch than any of the “official” “Day of the Dead” sequels/prequels/reboots. Under normal circumstances, playing two actors of their collective caliber off of as well as against one another would singlehandedly justify the price of admission. Gina regularly clashes with Colonel Knox, whose Army Rangers are assigned to facilitate the science team’s needs. Chewing on an indeterminate American accent seemingly meant to sound vaguely like Mark Wahlberg, Smith portrays a typically confident, fast-talking intellectual. They are last seen taking a Red Cross boat away, with fake identities, covered in bandages and burns. This would-be marquee draw never gains ground because the movie contentedly gives up on initial attempts at originality to go forward with half-baked efforts on virtually every front. Sensing Gina is pregnant, Janet sacrifices herself to the infected so that Morgan and Gina can escape to the surface together. Zombies, Joes’ world turns upside down. When a group of friends enjoying a bachelor cruise in the Caribbean stumble upon a research facility on a remote island, a deadly virus is unleashed. Obviously, Matt Smith plays the role of Morgan. It only explained how the virus was able to spread throughout the world so rapidly, affecting specific demographics. Joe picks up his friend and psychiatrist Dr. Rudy Sanchez and explains to him everything that has happened. The disease they have can either be viral or bacterial and it is usually the least mutated form of the illness. “Patient Zero’s” additional deviations from the broad strokes of Romero’s influence feature Morgan, an infected man who curiously hasn’t turned. Patient Zero is an action horror film set against the outbreak of a deadly virus that threatens to wipe out the human race. 5. With inoculations made from Morgan’s blood losing their potency, Gina advises Morgan to let go of Janet before she completely transforms. Had contact with several people even before she started showing symptoms. Although Morgan is now in a romantic relationship with Gina, he regularly visits Janet, who is held as a captive test subject while being administered temporary vaccines engineered from Morgan’s unusual blood. They bring him to see a man named Mr. Church who wants him to audition for a position in his new organization, an ultra-secret counter-terrorism group called the Department of Military Science (DMS). The American, action, horror, drama genre movie casting includes Matt Smith, Natalie Dormer, Clive Standen, Agyness Deyn, Stanley Tucci, and others. In an interview with Morgan, Pete confirms Joe’s earlier assertion that they were infected in Minnesota during October of the previous year. What role did social media play in the outbreak? Because although “Patient Zero” isn’t as abysmally awful as “Day of the Dead 2: Contagium” or “Day of the Dead: Bloodline” (review here), it isn’t a particularly fascinating, full-bodied, or worthwhile film either. The last remaining medical and military personnel struggle to find a cure after a super-strain of rabies infects most of the global population. Infected infiltrate and overrun the bunker. We learn than a man named Porter (Sean Astin) is the title "patient zero," immune to the disgusting disease and held prisoner by a doctor (Currie Graham) desperate to use his blood for a cure. 2. Astin puts a subdued mania into the role that takes exactly the amount needed from pools of emotionally broken family man, frustrated test subject, and potentially dangerous psychopath. Gina, Morgan, and Janet eventually confront Michael. Morgan, who suffers from flashback nightmares of being unable to save his wife Janet, works with Gina. Through his interrogations of forcibly restrained test subjects, Dr. Gina Rose attempts to trace the outbreak’s origins. Patient Zero tells a story of love and politics in a dystopia torn apart by a mysterious illness. When you see Bruce Willis in straight-to-streaming schlock, you know your money would be better spent by donating to a presidential campaign for Foghorn Leghorn. With Morgan matched against Michael, a cagily cunning captive who may know the truth about the titular MacGuffin, “Patient Zero” makes the tête-à-tête between Matt Smith and Stanley Tucci its main attraction. With how terrible things went down, Echo team is called to move out immediately, before they can even start their first bit of training, to hit the newly found site of another cell with potential zombies. Abruptly out of gas, the immaterial flick fades to black with laughably tacked-on narration from Matt Smith, echoing Roger Meyers explaining Poochie’s sudden disappearance with, “I have to go now, my planet needs me.”. How as the disease transmitted during the epidemic? They interview Linden Brierly, regional director of the secret service, and Robert Howell Lee director of special operations for the FBI/Homeland joint command, to get info on the event and the men they sent to the DMS when Church was first building it up, searching for their traitor. What worldwide organization helped monitor and deal with the outbreak? Well, it also describes 2018 thriller “Patient Zero,” a movie mimeographed so heavily from George A. Romero’s zombie classic, it could almost be considered a remake. And Natalie Dormer stars as Dr. Gina Rose. Of course, that opens the door wide for Tucci’s slyer antagonist to boil Morgan’s cooled temperament into frustrated hotheadedness using smug smirks and cryptic conversation. Worst of all, “Cabin Fever: Patient Zero” is a film without enough surprises. There, a scrappy female scientist desperate to engineer a vaccine regularly butts heads with an alpha male soldier who’d rather shoot every dangerous test subject than round them up for research. US cover for Patient Zero - first book in the Joe Ledger series. The disease they have can either be viral or bacterial and it is usually the least mutated form of the illness. Joe, Bunny, and Top respond first on site to put down the threat with minimal losses. Afterwards Joe is introduced to Major Grace Courtland a former SAS member on semi-permanent load to the DMS. With his anger boiling over, Knox suddenly executes Joe out of frustration, creating more animosity between Knox and Gina. Does that summary sound like 1985’s “Day of the Dead” to you? Based on Justin Cronin’s novel trilogy of the same name, The Passage was adapted for the small screen by The Orville producer Liz Heldens. They are forced to rest for few hours first; it’s been a long and traumatizing day. Church starts an investigation with team leaders about the incident. Gus Dietrich and the cavalry save them in their last surviving moments. Because he was bitten but did not turn rabid, Morgan remains in a unique position where he alone can communicate with infected captives. Hundreds of walkers are set loose on the team, communication jammed, explosions kill many of their back-up, Ollie and Skip go missing, and they fight to their last bullet and ounce of energy to stay alive. The director from Homeland, Robert Howell Lee, attempted to kill himself, being a mole for the terrorist group, but was revived and questioned by Church. Gina finds Morgan and Janet. The series is set in a not-too-distant future in which scientists at a secret medical facility known as Project Noah are experimenting with a virus that has the potential to be a cure for all disease. perhaps good intentioned, but not exactly a powerhouse piece of well thought out entertainment. 2009 - Patient Zero Bram Stoker Award, Superior Achievement in a Novel (Nomination). Over Knox’s objections, Pierce agrees with Gina’s proposal to sweep Minnesota for patient zero. Morgan interviews a test subject nicknamed “Joe Cocker” in an attempt to locate patient zero. The film stars Matt Smith, Natalie Dormer, Stanley Tucci, Agyness Deyn, and Clive Standen. Joe knocks them all into submission within seconds, and takes the title of Captain of Echo Team, with the men he just pummeled as his crew. Over the course of his tense confrontation with Morgan, Michael recalls how he transformed before killing his wife and daughter. Information is the most important thing they need now. But after their successful infiltration, they stumble into what turns out to be a huge ambush. Knox shoots Pierce so that the infected swarm him, allowing Knox to escape into an elevator with Gina. Cabin Fever: Patient Zero is a 2014 German-American horror film directed by Kaare Andrews and written by Jake Wade Wall. On a hunch, Morgan reexamines Pete Townshend and discovers a transmitter embedded inside his body. Joe brings in Det. Following a group of scientists hiding in a nuclear silo and looking for the disease’s first infected in order to create a vaccine or cure, it has many of the touches of … Even the police report on the warehouse raid is gone. Gina is forced to shoot Knox when he refuses to let her go back into the bunker to recover her research. Joe and Top Sims chase him down, but he has infected himself with generation 12 of the strain. Unfortunately, as in the case of HIV’s Patient Zero and in Emile’s case, Patient Zero is the first, or one of the first casualties of the disease. He was funding El Mujahid and his wife Amirah to just threaten the USA with this horrible disease so they would make billions developing the cure, but was betrayed when they wanted to actually release the plague to kill the western world. Morgan refuses. Disguised, Mujahid unleashes generation 10 of the pathogen into the crowd, the most virulent of the strain so far. They learn their ambush at the plant was all a set-up to make them think their new information was legit. What were the origins of the virus? It was first published in March 2009 by St. Martins Griffin. Knox executes him. All Rights Reserved. Echo Team witnesses horror at the meatpacking plant, scientists pushing walkers towards screaming children, and in a moment of rage, Echo team runs in guns blazing to take down the enemy and save as many kids as they can. We learn this is generation three of the pathogen. She got sick in Hong Kong, by the time she was on a plane home, she. Monday, 1300 hours: Joe Ledger kills terrorist Javad Mustapha, A.K.A.