Major plot hole.


How can the medicine be man-made but running out?

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It was made from spinal fluud of Zombies

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It was made from spinal fluid of zombies...also man made things can be scarce if the raw ingredients aren't available or it Costa too much to produce

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If the meds where made from the spinal fluid of the returned, then how come there wasn't more medication after they killed the zombies?

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I think the big plot hole is how the family friend suddenly turned out to be infected. How was she not sought after by the police like the man? The man explained that when he was infected he had to go to a military camp to receive treatment and get registered. So how did the woman not get registered? It's difficult to believe that she would be able to acquire medicine daily when the doctor who works at the clinic can barely get extra.

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Well they're pretty wealthy, so who knows what resources they could tap into. Also I'm pretty sure it was their idea to go to the second house, using their 'caring attitude' for their friend as an ulterior motive to go.

I was never one to hold grudges. My father held grudges, I'll always hate him for that

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I just finished watching this movie and for me the biggest plot hole (and someone may already have mentioned it on the board and I just haven't read it yet) is, Kate gets pregnant. Is she now infected, too? Has she been for all these months? The virus was blood-borne...am I wrong in assuming that all other bodily fluids are also problematic...? Wouldn't that be a reasonable assumption? All through the film, in fact, I wondered about the sexual relationship(s) presented, and what sex means now in light of this worldwide virus. Maybe I'm over-thinking things about the nature of the infection but that ending seemed jarring---not the revenge plan, which made perfect sense, but the baby-to-be.





Et quid amabo nisi quod aenigma est...?

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Maybe the movie is just meant to be one big plot hole........

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LOL maybe so. I love the lead actor in just about everything he has done; loved him here, too---but I swear this film began with such, I dunno, nuance and sophistication, only to end with a very different sort of shading.




Et quid amabo nisi quod aenigma est...?

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Early on in the film when the female lead is speaking at the conference on future funding for the synthetic protein she points at a power point slide that says the virus is bloodborne; ie it ONLY transfer through direct contact with infected blood. Similar to HIV/AIDS, the virus is not hereditary and can't be sexually or orally transmitted. It's not a plot hole, just failure to pay attention on your part lol I don't blame you, though. It's a rather long and uneventful movie.

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Wow... you seriously just said you can't get HIV/AIDS from sexual intercourse? Who told you that?!? You should get checked because you probably have it by now...Oh and by the way, while it is not hereditary it IS transmuted through bodily fluids (which a mother shares a great deal of with her child throughout birth and care afterwards) it is extremely likely that if mother has it child will get it......

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Oh, forgive me for being wrong about my example. I had a brain malfunction. boo hoo. how dare I succumb to such human error! I was thinking of a different virus altogether when I wrote that post. Lolol No need to be condescending about it. A simple 'hey, you got your facts wrong' would have sufficed, thank you :)

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In fact, in that conference her slide explicitly states that it is not sexually transmitted. So real-world examples aside, the movie does tell us the "rules" for this particular infection, and is internally consistent with them.

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No government would let the infected run around like that in the first place. It is just insanely dangerous. Just one idiot that forgets his medication or thinks he can use alternative medicine instead and you get a zombie apocalypse for everyone. No way they would take the risk.

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I agree with that. These people would probably be considered a serious threat to others and be quarantined by the government long before any groups forms to hunt them down.

With respect to the question as to how the conceived fetus be free of the zombie virus. It is possible that the virus only enters certain human cell types and that sperm cells and seminal fluids are free of the virus. Leaving the possibility of fetus free of infection.


One thing I want to know is why do the police not go after the woman? She left her phone in a parking lot beside a guy she likely fatally ran over and a case full of broken zombie med vials.

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Dude, the entire premise of the movie is that the protein was NOT man-made but the scientists were trying to find a synthetic version that worked. This fact was repeated over and over and over again.

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