Radius
3/10
Oh,
this had the chance to be so damned good! This will have spoilers. I
watched some review show or something and heard about this movie on
Netflix called Radius. I liked the premise. People who get within
fifty feet of this guy just drop dead. Now, with a movie like this I
need for there to be a reason why given. Well I got that reason and
laughed my ass off when it was shown. More on that later. So this guy
wakes up with his head bleeding near a road and flags down someone
for help. The car veers off the road and the driver is dead. He gets
their phone to call 911 and can't remember his name but sees it is
Liam (Diego Klattenhoff) after checking his wallet. He walks into a
diner and everyone is dead. People just dying around this guy! He
locks himself in his house thinking there may be some kinda virus
floating around killing folk. He is not just killing people either.
Birds just drop dead out the sky when they fly over him. He is super
effective. Now he knows he is the reason things are dying.
One
day a lady (Charlotte Sullivan) shows up and he tries to get her to
leave. She gets close to his house and does not die. She says she can
not remember anything after a crash and that he was the driver of the
car. They have no idea who the other is but must work together. She
does not have the same ability as him but they discover that when she
is with him people do not die. By the way, this whole situation was
rushed and felt weird. But with the way the ending was done it makes
sense. It's not good. But it makes sense. They find where the car had
crashed and there is a circular burn on the ground. She tries to leave and a cop
spots them and as the lady walks away the cop dies. Liam is like “Ha!
See?!” News reports are saying he is being looked for and they
wonder if they should get help some way. Not anymore with all these
bodies piling up. The lady finds out her name is Rose and gets in
touch with her husband who seems shady for no reason. There is a
missing poster with a woman that looks like her but turns out she has
a twin. Well here we fucking go. Time to get telenovela on your ass!
Super
spoilers from here on out. This movie becomes a series of instances
where they are not believed by people, get caught, people die,
secrets are revealed, the truth comes out. It is a mess. So while
they are in this cabin and she is starting to like this guy a little
their memories come back. Turns out he is a killer and killed a lot
of women including her sister. He throws up when he remembers he is a
shit bird while she freaks out and threatens to kill him. She
doesn't. Some rednecks show up, beat Liam up, and then they die
because he takes a few extra steps. One of them shoots the lady and
then dies. Liam takes her to the hospital then shoots himself in the
head. As for how they got this weird ability, when he was trying to
drug her for future killing they were hit by some weird space
lightning shit after crashing the truck when she fought him off. That
is the explanation given. If they just had a lash of light it would
have been better looking. They went full on Highlander “There can
be only one!” lightning and it looked silly. This was not a
horrible movie but I couldn't possibly suggest you watch it.
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