The Year of the Plague

An unwatchable, amateurishly cheap variation on Invasion of the Body Snatchers, in which humans are duplicated by a virus spread from a mutated eucalyptus from space. There is not a single action scene in the entire film and 95% of the story is devoted to an idiotic conversational soap opera with primitive dialogues. The unsympathetic protagonist and his even less sympathetic ex-girlfriend have nothing in common whatsoever, have nothing to say to each other and there is no reason for them to be together. The romantic triangle remains unused, as well as two thirds of other opened themes. Acting as if they were on TV, the truly weak actors talk about nothing, the directing and script are beyond embarrassing, there are no tricks or masks, the film is terribly boring from beginning to end, because nothing happens at all for a long time (the uninteresting exposition of characters takes up more than half of the film), and when something does start happening, it's pathetic and laughable. This is subjectively a three-hour film that is almost impossible to survive through. (11.10.2018)