![]() It was a year of heroes and zeros, highs and lows, and shocks and fizzles.… Bike courier Nico (KJ Apa), whose immunity to the disease has earned him the epithet “munie” (like “mutie,” from X-Men, just one of the many derivative touches here), has to save his girlfriend Sara (Sofia Carson) from “Department of Sanitation” employees empowered by martial law to clean the streets of those infected by the disease with extreme prejudice. Citizens are required to check in daily for health screenings via smartphone app those who show signs of the disease are sent to Q-zones so as to stop the spread of infection. Rather than a 99.98 percent survival rate, nearly half of those who catch the mutated form of COVID die, and pretty quickly at that. Set in the near future, a COVID-ravaged America has resorted to years of rolling lockdowns after the disease mutates and becomes far deadlier. It’s more Pain & Gain than Transformers, in other words. However, there is the signature choppy editing and a whole coterie of top-tier supporting actors and a slightly dark comic sensibility butting up to a movie that, honestly, kinda-sorta has something to say. ![]() ![]() Sure, there aren’t any massive explosions. Bay, after all, is merely the producer.īut if you say the phrase “Michael Bay COVID Movie” and then think about what that might entail, you might envision something a bit like Songbird. ![]() S ongbird is best-explained as “The Michael Bay COVID Movie.” This is not entirely fair to the actual director, Adam Mason, or the writers, Mason and Simon Boyes. ![]()
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