Wednesday, January 22, 2020

Radius (2017)

A man wakes up to find himself next to a car wreck.  His face is half-covered in blood.  He walks toward the road and flags down the first car he sees.  He is almost run over as the car drifts off the road and stops.  The driver is dead.  He uses the woman's cell phone to call 911.  When asked for his name, he doesn't know.  At a nearby diner, he finds everyone is dead.  As he stands there, a van crashes and the driver is dead.  Fearing some sort of airborne contagion, he puts cloth over his mouth.  By trial and error, he discovers that anyone or anything that gets too close to him dies.
 
While hiding at his house (he discovered it thanks to his drivers license), a woman arrives.  Though he tries to warn her off, she comes close but doesn't die.  Not only is she immune to his death field, she turns it off.  Moreover, she also suffers amnesia but had no ID to give clues.  She was in his truck during the unremembered accident.
 
The story follows their efforts to find out how they knew each other and what happened.  This is complicated by suspicions that he is a terrorist thanks to all the bodies in his wake.  Sadly, the movie falls apart in the end.  The mystery of their relationship sucks and the Radius is never explained beyond a 'magic' lightning strike.  The conclusion destroys what had been an engaging film.

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