(2 out of 5 stars)

Julianne Moore can see and she’s the only one. Her husband, an eye doctor, becomes infected with what appears to be an airborne disease that makes people blind. The disease travels from person to person and as the government attempts to minimize the impact of this odd phenomenon, they quarantine all blind people into an abandoned mental hospital and let them create their own new society.

Placing people who are newly blind in a place without law creates chaos. The government does not appropriately provide food thus causing all sorts of havoc. Julianne Moore, for whatever reason is not affected, so she attempts to bring order to this new society while helping others and trying to keep her secret that she can see away from all others. This creates an interesting idea, but falls flat with a slow story that seems to focus more on the depression caused by the blindness than the full impact of the blindness with no law.

The movie explains whether or not the blindness was correctly quarantined, but at that point, you start caring less and less about the characters. It does not matter if they can see again or if they will kill each other, and that is where the movie loses. It provides no emotion or character development that makes the viewer want them all to see again.

The ending is one of the worst in recent memory providing little to no resolution and just ending. As the movie provides its resolution, I wondered if I would have been better of being blind myself and skipping this movie instead. 

Suggested similar recommendations: I Am Legend & 28 Days Later