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New Order (2012) is a English movie. Marco Rosson has directed this movie. Franco Nero,David Wurawa,James Kelly,Tatiana Luter are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2012. New Order (2012) is considered one of the best Fantasy,Sci-Fi,Thriller movie in India and around the world.
The year is 2033, three years prior an infection, a virus, or a bacteriological attack wiped out almost 90% of the global population. Cities are no longer a safe place to live, rotting corpses are spreading new diseases. A city called New Birth City was set up by what's left of global government and military, a place where humanity could survive and search for a cure. The research was headed by two Oxford professors, two years after the out break one of the professors died leaving Dr Cornelius Van Morgen (Franco Nero), a world renowned biologist to continue the research. Dr Cornelius Van Morgen choose five people from among the survivors and puts them up in an old country house where his deceased colleague had set up a research laboratory. Working with the notes his research partner has left behind and observing the five survivors Dr Cornelius Van Morgen continues his desperate search for a cure or vaccine. The five survivors Thomas James (David Wurawa),Alice Molina (Margherita ...
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New Order (2012) Reviews
It could have been better
New Order is an Italian, English language Sci-Fi/Horror, about the aftermath of a virus that has spread worldwide. It takes place in 2033, 3 years after the virus breakout. It is somewhat a documentary/found footage type format. I have to first say that the story is actually pretty creative. There are many parts of the movie that are eerie and creepy. But for some weird reason, I found myself having a hard time concentrating. I think because sometimes it would get a little confusing, I would lose interest, but then something weird would happen and I'd get pulled right back in. Overall, the movie is kinda blah, but I think the story was on the right track of being a really great movie. Maybe it's the acting or maybe it's the format that made it not scary enough, but I can't help feel like there was something missing. I definitely think it's worth watching, but don't expect too much from it or you will be very disappointed. Please like me on Facebook! We love getting suggestions and warnings on everything horror: http://www.facebook.com/pages/I-Heart-Horror/338327476286206
You can not be told what a cracked brain is. You can only experience a cracked brain.
I am being a little generous in my rating on this movie only because it is a good twisted bunch of crumpled paper that makes complete sense once you get to the end. Really neat twists, I liked this, and it reminded me of Man from Earth just a bit. The acting is all very good. You will need to get used to this very new style of filming, but that does happen quite quickly. You will be disoriented from the start, and only once in a while will you think you have things under control, and have a good grasp on what is going on. Well that is just about where they shake the jar again, and you are dealing with something more like Sphere with all the mental powers, and still things are not going to be that easy to figure out. I say the overall look of the movie is lower grade than I would have liked for cameras in the year 2033, but the over all story is Enjoyable, and more than makes up for it once the three cherries finally come up, and your paid off.
some interesting ideas, but otherwise a bit of a cheaply-made mess
I have to admit I'm a bit biased as I'm still a bit upset about being bamboozled into watching this film's Los Angeles premiere expecting (along with the rest of the audience) to be watching an entirely other movie. Nothing was announced - just the wrong movie starting playing but with the right actor (who was in attendance along with the embarrassed makers) so nobody said anything and just politely watched the movie so as not to be rude. At first I didn't even realize it was the full movie but more likely a trailer or short to pass the time, only to have it gradually dawn on me that nope, you're in it for the long haul. A small group of English speakers are stuck in a secluded Italian villa while some sort of plague ravages the rest of the world. They bicker and fight with each other and eventually lose their minds while a disembodied doctor (Franco Nero) oversees everything like it's some kind of laboratory experiment. As a film, its a bit overambitious considering its quite apparently meager budget. The plot has aspirations of covering how family units can form and then psychologically break apart under the stress of surviving an apocalyptic scenario. Unfortunately it's all quite talky and the cinematography is dire. There is too much shaky camera work, too much reliance on gimmicky stuff like Found Footage (one character just HAD to be an amateur videographer) and too much said without anything meaningful being communicated. The production values are cheap and there's never really a sense that the world is really as over as the movie wants us to think (the cars are clean modern models which still work great, everyone looks clean, well-nourished, has modern conveniences, etc.) and the sets are often obscured by the obtuse cinematography. Franco Nero's presence is welcome but never really gels. Without him this would feel like a student film all the way but he lends the film an extreme amount of gravity and enthusiasm considering all others on the crew must have felt extremely lucky to have had him involved even if for just a day or two. His role feels like the very afterthought that it likely was though, as he never interacts with any other characters and all his dialog is in the form of tape recordings to himself. None of it really makes any sense as we don't even know who he's talking to or why other than to add tacky exposition, and the twist ending is an utter eye-roller rather than the shock I'm sure they were going for. On the plus side, the sound design and musical score is nicely atmospheric and certainly would feel right at home in a bigger and better movie. Also relative newcomers David Wurawa and Margherita Remotti put a lot of heart into their performances and are the standouts of the film.
Could have been so much more
This movie had a cool concept and it was well acted however logistically it fell apart. I for one was able to tell what all of the characters had in common, apparently the only survivors of a world-wide virus catastrophe are Americans (as the movie doesn't specifically say but leads you to believe) with Italian accents. If you want to have a movie portray Americans then shoot it with Americans or at least actors that can speak with an American accent. This is not to say it wasn't well acted because it was, this sticking point just stuck out to me like a sore thumb. Other than that it has some large ideas to grasp which maybe could have been developed more but I like the fact they tried to tackle it and with a nice little twist at the end. See this movie with half your brain tied behind your back but keep your head in the game and you might enjoy it.