I know this is nit-picking (and IMO, hardly the film's biggest problem) but the virus depicted in the film wouldn't be able to spark a worldwide pandemic because of its extremely high virulence.
It would kill its hosts faster than they could pass it on and ultimately cause only lethal but small-scale and short-lived local epidemics.
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basically accurate, but this is TV-Movie time we're working on. If you really worked it out for transmission, then you'd have a six hour movie with 4 hours of it people getting on and off of planes.
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huh what ?
time compression is fine, but you do know that you can SKIP a few hours??
this isnt 24 that everything has to happen real time? so your argument is FAIL!
also yes the virus is useless and just 1 of the major plotholes in the film
there must be a million more
like why is FBI doing nothing, why is L on the run ? how can the terrorists use the TV to try and get the girl? where is the law/government in this?
death note explained itself very very well and its a brilliant film, and anime too
the effects of Kira is wide speard, and can be seen,
BUT this film makes L into a john Mclane run from the law, no one believes but saves the day kind of hero, which he isnt!
"Everybody knows you never go full retard" - Kirk Lazarus
doesn't mean it coudlnt' work...
u mean the plan??
they would have been better off if they had something that could poison the water supply...
Just because it has a fast death rate doesn't mean it can't be devastating. Especially if it's highly infectious, all you'd need to do is release in a heavily populated area and it would be an extremely effective terrorist weapon.
Like say, an airport. In fact, the last mission of the 2nd Splinter Cell game (Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow) was to stop a team of terrorists from detonating a smallpox bomb in LAX. So it could work.
Smallpox has an incubation period of 10-12 days though, between exposure and infectious symptoms.
In that time, someone could travel all over the world, and be in a fresh area once they become contagious.
With this, even if it went off in an airport, it couldn't travel because everyone on the plane would die long before the plane could reach another country.
Nobody is entitled to an opinion. Everyone is entitled to an informed opinion.
it would cause damage just like the world trade center bombings i mean not a huge crazy number, but in a highly populated area it does do damage...
shareOP is right, the virus kills too quickly in order to be a successful virus. When they mentioned that it was an influenza-ebola mix (impossible, I know, but going with the movie here). I thought "Oh cool, so it'll be Ebola but have a longer incubation time, so it can be cross-spread a lot quicker and cause a pandemic", but after they showed how quickly a person shows symptoms (again, impossible) I lost all hope.
I've honestly never seen/heard of death note before, and only got it on my Netflix because my brother wanted to see it, but I wasn't all that into it to say the least.
i like death note, but this one really wasn't as much about the death note at all...
as for the virus it depends how you define successful, i mean you can still kill about 100 people taht are in a concentrated area...