"Pay attention! This shit is real! screams an on-screen warning at the start of this overstuffed horror-comedy-action outing. As much as the deadly fungus it foists on Earth, an outbreak of sardonic attitude runs rampant here. It falls to two bantering storage facility workers, played by Stranger Things' Joe Keery and Barbarian's Georgina Campbell, to contain a potential apocalypse event with intermittent high-grade thespian help from Lesley Manville, Vanessa Redgrave and old faithful Liam Neeson. Somebody clearly called in a few favours here."
"Things kick off as the Skylab space station falls out of orbit in 1979 one of its research containers winds up in the Australian outback. Fast-forward to the early 00s and a team of bioterror operatives, including Robert (Neeson) and Trini (Manville), wipe out the virulent fungus that escapes though not before it turns one of them into a human smoothie. But the Kansas facility where they stow a sample is later decommissioned, and the ground floor converted into storage lockers."
"Screenwriting maestro David Koepp, adapting his own 2019 novel, may have been suffering from a case of brain spores himself; he lets the film feverishly propagate through a discipline-free combination of straightforward pestilence thriller, Kevin Smith-esque wage-slave comedy and gleeful B-movie grossfest. The mutant mildew obeys no discernible rules other than encouraging its hosts to distribute it in the most splatterhouse way possible, from encrusting rat kings to self-skewering cats."
An on-screen warning opens a chaotic horror-comedy-action about a deadly fungus that arrives on Earth after Skylab debris lands in the Australian outback. Bioterror operatives destroy the fungus in the early 2000s but a sample is stored in a decommissioned Kansas facility later converted to storage lockers. Night-shift workers investigate alarms and confront the virulent mildew that spreads with grotesque, rule-breaking gore. David Koepp adapts his 2019 novel into a hybrid of pestilence thriller, wage-slave comedy and B-movie grossfest. Performances from seasoned actors punctuate frequent wisecracks that often fail to consistently land.
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