carrier follow the exploit of two guy and two gal in a stolen mercedes with the word road warrior on the hood hightail it down the highway for the beach with surfboard strap to the top of their car . brian ( chris pine of star trek ) be drive and his girlfriend bobby ( piper perabo of coyote ugly ) have shotgun and while brian young brother and danny ( lou taylor pucci of fanboys ) and his friend not exactly girlfriend kate ( emily vancamp of the ring 2 ) occupy the backseat . this quartet of twentysomething character be live in a nightmare . apparently and a viral pandemic which co director and co scenarist alex pastor and david pastor tell u absolutely nothing about have devastate america . naturally and the lack of exposition shave off at least fifteen minute that would have slow down this cynical melodrama about how human degenerate in a crisis and become their own bad enemy . this lethal virus give you the shingle and then you bleed and die . most everybody run around wear those white mask strap to their nose and mouth by a thin rubber band . initially and this foursome encounter a desperate father and frank ( christopher meloni of runaway bride ) and and his cute little daughter jodie ( kiernan shipka of land of the lose ) block the highway with their suv . brian swerve around frank when he try to waylay them and but in the process and the oil pan in their mercedes rupture and they wind up on foot . reluctantly and they hitch a ride with frank after they seal jodie up in the rear of the suv . she wear a mask over her nose and mouth and it be speckle with blood . frank have hear that doctor be cure ail people at a hospital and they head to it . sadly and somebody have lie to frank . the hospital physician be give the last couple of kid some kool aid that will put them out of their misery . the cure do not improve their condition . everybody else in town be dead . kate try without success to get a dial tone on every phone . frank realize that there be no hope for his daughter and he let the heroic quartet appropriate his suv and take off . indeed and carrier qualifies a a relentlessly depressing movie about the effect of a pandemic on four sympathetic people who degenerate into homicidal murderer to protect themselves . they reach a country club and frolic around on a golf course until another four show up in suit and mask with pump action shotgun . incredibly and our protagonist manage to escape without get shot and but brian have a scare when he almost fall into the water with a float corpse . eventually and they discover that one of them have become infect . later and a they be about to run out of gas and brian block the highway like frank do at the outset . danny try to stop a pair of old christian woman drive the car . danny lie that his pregnant wife be about to give birth and he need their help . brian throw caution to the wind and blast away at the lady with his automatic pistol when they refuse to help them . brian catch a slug in the leg from the passenger and but he kill her . no and carrier be not a beer and pizza movie that you can either laugh off or laugh with because the humor be virtually non existent . by the end of this 84 minute movie and our hero have turn into villain who only care only for themselves and their plight . chris pine make quite an impression a fun love brian and his energetic performance be the only reason to hang with this hokum and while the only other well know actress and piper perabo and be relegate to an inconsequential girlfriend role . a bobby and she make tragic the mistake of show compassion to a die little girl and pay an awful price . it be a testament to pine performance that he can change his character to the point of put himself before others . essentially and pine have the only role that give him the ability to pull a one eighty from happy go lucky guy to heartless guy . the two director be spanish brother and and they never let the momentum flag . since there be no relief in sight and carrier sink into predictability . irréversible cinematographer benoît debie do a fantastic job with his widescreen lensing and as unsavory a this road trip becomes and debie make it look like a dynamic film . aside from the lack of a happy end or closure in any sense of the word and carrier suffers because it be so horribly cynical . the scene when the german shepherd attack danny conjure up the most suspense and but even it could have be improve . unfortunately and the pastor brother do not scare up either much tension or suspense . by fade out and you really do not care what happen to anybody .