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87% Tomatometer 76 Reviews 67% Audience Score 1,000+ Ratings Stranded in rural Australia in the aftermath of a violent pandemic, an infected father desperately seeks a new home for his infant ...
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- Martin Freeman
- Ben Howling, Yolanda Ramke
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May 18, 2018 · Brian Tallerico May 18, 2018. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. Just when you think the zombie genre has no new stories to tell, along comes the heartbreaking Aussie undead drama “Cargo,” anchored by another wonderfully committed performance from Martin Freeman.
Oct 7, 2017 · Cargo review – the living dead have us spooked, but in a painful way | Movies | The Guardian. Martin Freeman, as Andy in Cargo, has two days to find somebody to take care of his infant...
- An infected Martin Freeman has to save his baby from the zombie apocalypse in a film that's more suspenseful on paper than on the screen.
- Verdict
By William Bibbiani
Posted: May 18, 2018 10:31 pm
It’s hard to come up with a new idea for a zombie story, but the makers of Cargo did it… five years ago. Ben Howling and Yolanda Ramke’s short film told the story of a father trying to find a new home for his baby in the midst of a zombie apocalypse, after being bitten. It’s a stirring, macabre seven-minute motion picture, with a unique image at the center of it all. The short film is, in no uncertain terms, excellent.
Howling and Ramke have expanded that short into a feature length movie, still titled Cargo, and the transition makes a lot of sense. Cargo is a ticking clock story, set in a dying world populated mostly by peril. Martin Freeman (Black Panther) plays the father this time around, named Andy. After he’s bitten by a zombie, he knows he has only 48 hours to solve the problem of what to do with his infant daughter, Rosie, and so he ventures out into the unknown, braving dangers.
Small in scale, but big on suspense, on paper Cargo has a lot going for it. Martin Freeman brings with him a natural likability, in part because he’s an excellent actor, and in part because he carries a fair amount of positive baggage. Playing affable everymen (or everyhobbit) heroes for a lot of his career makes him a natural fit for this kind of empathetic material. We’d want him to succeed no matter what. That his goals are selfless and noble only adds to our investment.
The problem is that Freeman’s affability sometimes undercuts an otherwise intensely focused story. Again, he has 48 hours to save the life of a baby, and hopefully in a way that guarantees his child will grow up safely. He’s trapped in a wasteland, full of cannibal ghouls and human beings who, in many cases, long ago abandoned their humanity. And yet Andy spends so much of Cargo acting like he has all the time in the world, happily playing with his child and casually surveying his surroundings, that the suspense sometimes cools from a steady simmer to unremarkably lukewarm.
Cargo has a great concept, with a powerful undercurrent of suspense and some intriguing new ideas for the zombie genre. But the film’s execution frequently fails to live up to its promise, and Martin Freeman’s charming acting style sometimes downplays the overwhelming intensity of his story. It’s an interesting, sometimes moving post-apocalyptic th...
- William Bibbiani
May 18, 2018 · Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews. 65. User Score Generally Favorable Based on 82 User Ratings. 6.1. My Score. Hover and click to give a rating. Add My Review. Where to Watch. Netflix (Subscription required) View All. Simone Landers. Thoomi. Martin Freeman. Andy. Marlee Jane McPherson-Dobbins. Rosie.
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Cargo Movie Review | Common Sense Media. Parents' Guide to. Cargo. By Renee Schonfeld, Common Sense Media Reviewer. age 17+. Original zombie movie with heart; violence, language. Movie NR 2018 105 minutes. Rate movie. Parents Say: age 15+ 1 reviews. Any Iffy Content? Read more. Talk with Your Kids About… Read more. A Lot or a Little?
May 18, 2018 · Cargo Review: Martin Freeman's Walking Dead is Pretty Good. By Sandy Schaefer. Published May 18, 2018. Cargo is a slow burn zombpocalypse drama that hits some familiar beats, yet there's a rich humanism at its core that makes the journey meaningful.
