Do or Die (2003)
A virus causes people to age rapidly. There is an antidote, but it has to be taken daily and is under control of a single company. A woman who is not infected carries an infected child, and seeks for it to be cured. This quest leads her to the blue lands, where most of the infected live.
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There are a lot of mediocre sci-fi films these days, and this is one of them. It's not awful but there's not much to it. They clearly didn't invest too heavily in a writing staff. It's fairly predictable, even if you aren't a big sci-fi fan. The film just ambles its way along with no real revelations or insight. The only "interesting" piece about it is the special effect used for one of the methods of killing people.
Do or Die was a made-for-TV SciFi original whatchamacallit. It looked like it was originally planned as a miniseries and then chopped. We are shown a post-"blight" world in which those with an incurable (but not contagious) disease form an oppressed underclass. Upon even cursory examination, the premise makes no real sense, and its veneer of meaning is merely that -- all surface and no substance. It acts like it has the intelligence and foreboding of A Handmaid's Tale, but by painting broad villains, a fictionalized disease with no social impact, and extreme circumstances, the movie avoids all the meat and pours on too much gravy. Still, I admire that SciFi is making real science fiction, of the sort that might have appeared in Analog fifty years ago. 6/10
This movie started out good. It had you interested from the start and it got you involved. But in the middle it's gets all messed up. I was dissatified with the way the story went after 40 mins in. But the end was the end and it was something that i didn't like as it was somewhat sad but i did expect it. I'm not going to be a spoiler so watch and find out. But if you are bored and there's nothing on TV. I would give it a shot.
The number of deaths in this movie make it rather sad to watch, but it fits the atmosphere well. It is a bit sad, however, that all the entities in the movie (the police, the company, the punks) are all "reduced" to a single person representing them, which makes everything too easy. This movie would've worked better as a series.