But I’ll find you!” and “Disobedience is spreading like a… tornado.” (apparently the screenwriters couldn’t think of another destructive force that spreads from person to person, which is a shame) with far more joie de vivre than they deserve. He puts so much energy into his maniacal, monologuing performance that he manages to sell nonsensical threats like “Bag and tag the hag!”, “Roses are red. Only the dependably Slavic Peter Stormare as the head of the ‘DOS’ is able to truly emerge with his dignity intact. Undoubtedly owing to the film’s 3-month pre- production schedule, it is filled with endless, clumsy expositional dialogue (“You’re late, asshole!” “You just hate me because I’m immune”), flaccid, half-attempts at satire (“Stop messing around guys! Rich people need their shit!”) and hilariously over-zealous, unsubtle government officials (“A fever has been detected at your residence. Which is good, because it falls entirely on their shoulders to sell the tasteless, gluten-free, paleo flatbread of a script they were handed. The cast all give committed performances. Alexandria D’addario also shows up as May, a struggling singer/songwriter in a thankless sub-plot with wheelchair-bound, ex-military drone operator Dozer ( Paul Walter Hauser). Meanwhile, Nico’s girlfriend Sara ( Sofia Carson) spends her days quarantined with her grandmother, organising her rapidly diminishing pencil collection and thinking of new ways to gaze adoringly into her phone screen. The audience is first introduced to virus-immune bike courier Nico ( KJ Apa) as he scoots about a desolate Los Angeles, delivering various packages for quarantined rich folk like Piper ( Demi Moore) and William ( Bradley Whitford) Griffin a bickering couple who make money selling highly prized, black- market ‘immunity bracelets’.
Irritatingly good-looking, star-crossed lovers fight for their right to party, i.e.,Ĭonspire to forge an immunity pass so they can escape to the fabled, ‘virus In the midst of the pandemic, a couple of Songbird is set in 2024, a bleak future where our oldįriend Covid-19 has mutated into Covid-23, a more infectious, far moreĭangerous strain of the virus, necessitating a state of perpetual quarantineĪnd civil obedience across the world. Honestly, it’s a bit like waking up to a 9/11 joke on the morning of September 12 th, only less funny. Writer/director Adam Mason’s Michael Bay-produced, Corona-thriller Songbird is spreading menacingly onto streaming platforms this week.
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