If you feel like cooling down a bit in the hot summer weather, a look at the Netflix charts might help. An ice-cold sci-fi horror film that will haunt your wildest nightmares with a terrible virus has currently made itself comfortable in fourth place. We’re talking about Patient Zero.
Patient Zero conquers the Netflix charts: This is what the sci-fi horror thriller is about
In the near future, the world will be overwhelmed by a global pandemic in which people with a mutated form of rabies infected and become brutal zombies, who, however, continue to act with human intelligence. The surviving Morgan (Matt Smith) is immune to the virus and has the ability to communicate with the infected.
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Matt Smith and Natalie Dormer in Patient Zero
Together with virologist Dr. Gina Rose (Natalie Dormer), he sets himself the task of the first infected person ‒ Patient Zero ‒ to find the cause of the disease in order to develop a cure. Morgan not only wants to save his wife, but also humanity.
However, he is thwarted by a professor (Stanley Tucci), who, having just been infected, has made it his mission to destroy the laboratory in which the antidote is being cultivated…
Patient Zero on Netflix boasts concentrated star power – but failed to convince critics
Even though the film is about German genre expert Stefan Ruzowitzky (Anatomy) Stars like Matt Smith (House of the Dragon), Natalie Dormer (Game of Thrones) and Stanley Tucci (The Hunger Games), the film was only partially well received by critics and audiences.
Patient Zero has an average rating of 5 out of 10 pointsOn Rotten Tomatoes, however, the film was punished with a devastating press rating of 11 percent, while the audience here gave it a score of 28 percent.
You can currently see Patient Zero for yourself with a streaming subscription from Netflix. Otherwise, you have the option of renting or buying the film from the usual VoD providers such as Amazon, Sky, Apple TV, Magenta TV or Google Play.
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