"The Crazies" is a remake/homage of the 1970's horror/thriller film of the same name. In this updated version, with Timothy Olyphant and Radha Mitchell as David and Judy, a married couple, where David is the sherrif of a small town in/near Iowa, and Judy is the town's doctor, people are becoming rather zombie-like, and homicidal-like, and David and his deputy Russell (Joe Anderson) are on the case investigating what could have cause such a development in this small, sleepy town with a population of 1,260 people.
There are plenty of genre scares and chills, but it's all done rather confidently, and the audience is on-board for most of the ride without a lot of inane and silly trapping of this genre-driven film. It's a rather scary-fun type of film to see with a crowd. It runs a little long, but overall, it knows what kind of film it is, but never loses sight of undercurrent of humanity of the characters as they fight for their lives as this outbreak threatens the entire population of the town as external forces also come into play.
I give it 3 stars, or a grade of B.
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