Antiviral

What a terrible film. It is dull, long, and a waste of time. Good luck people, you'll need it. This would be a good solution for people who find it difficult to sleep.

I was preparing myself for thriller/horror but found it so slow moving (albeit stylishly slow moving) that I couldn't keep my eyes open. Yes, some scenes made me gag a bit and others were a bit shocking, but there was only one five minute scene that made my heart beat faster.

I waited & was so psyched to rent this after seeing Trailer. I'm a big fan of father David Cronenberg's Early Horror works & thought this would be similar. I didn't get it! Maybe I have never been that big crazed a fan for anyone to take it to an extreme. It was boring & made mo sense to me. I did not care for or like any of the actors. A very disappointment for me.

Antiviral is a grotesque voyeurism into the depravity of the human mind. It takes a futuristic look at the celebrity/beauty & what depths people will go "to be and to feel" close to their idols.

One of the most disgusting films I have ever seen, and I have seen some pretty nasty stuff. The ideas presented in this movie are so vile, so ghastly, but make for a very original movie. Those that did not appreciate the film don't understand the underlying themes being presented here; when idol worship goes too far, we are the only ones that lose. It's a great metaphor for our movie-star obsessed culture. Watch it with an open mind, and with a bottle of Pepto handy.

Look, I understand the metaphor that this movie was offering, but I just think that it was kinda pointless to make a movie about it. Nothing really gets resolved by the end, there was no sense at all (a drug that MAKES you sick, really?), and it was pretty slow throughout. Yes, there's a reason why people are taking the drug to get sick, but it's a stupid reason and I doubt anyone would take it in real life. And the very last scene of this movie… what? But anyway, this movie is very interesting and pretty disturbing for the most part, so it's worth a rent if you enjoy slow-burners with some blood. It's like Contagion and Beyond the Black Rainbow had a baby, but it didn't come out completely functional.

The only positive thing that I can really say about this movie is that the trailer was good enough to get me to rent it. Other than that the premise is very illogical if not unbelievable. If you want to see a slow to develop – never fully realized plot and what I think to be a pretentious “horror” movie that tries very hard to be gross then go ahead and rent this, but don’t say I did not warn you.

It's a safe bet that someone who worked on Antiviral is a BIG fan of the artist Matthew Barney because much of the production design looks like it was lifted from his work. That said I think it is quite a good first outing for Cronenberg the younger. It has a wonderfully creepy tone and strong performances throughout.

I get the metaphors but can we ease up on the gore please? I found this ponderous and gratuitously graphic. The notion of fans queuing up to buy their favorite celebrity pathogen was very clever and is disturbingly not beyond the realm of the possible. This promising idea was slain by the hard-to-watch graphic display of bodily fluids. I give it a thumbs down.

The premis of sharing an illness with a celebrity seems somewhat far fetched when we as a society punish those who only stalk them. I also found the celebrity "meat" they ate also in the land of make believe. Stealing the celebrity virus using ones own body was only medicore entertaining. The final scene, while meant to be shocking...wasn't. I was left with that teenage term when one is trying to convey stupidity...so they ask "REALLY?" Here is my metaphor: Sadly, the story line was like being promised a nice breakfast but toast is all you were given. The acting was dry toast, with the director not sure which jam would improve the taste. Whats worse? I paid for the meal when I rented to movie. Stay away, plenty of other movies offering a buffet of delights using real meat!