魔鬼末日

　　经过与一十一（神木隆之介 饰）的恶战，濑文焚流（加濑亮 饰）身受重伤，命几不保。在此期间，青池里子（栗山千明 饰）随女儿小润（森山树 饰）悄然离开医院；而各国政要的一次关于简单计划的秘密会议上，自称卑弥呼的日本代表抹杀所有人，他代表SPEC持有者正式向普通人类宣战。世态险恶的当下，濑文急急出院，和当麻纱绫（户田惠梨香 饰）一同调查青池母女的行踪。而野野村组长（龙雷太 饰）则独自行动，查找简单计划病毒疫苗的下落。新的SPEC持有者交替登场，残酷的杀戮却从未停止。关于前人类的秘密昭然若揭，惨烈浩大的人种战争即将拉开序幕……
　　本片为SPEC系列完结篇的前篇。

　　精力充沛、自由奔放的年轻人瑞奇（迈克尔·安格拉诺 饰）和已经适应了家庭生活的老友格伦（迈克尔·塞拉 饰）踏上一场即兴公路行，从洛杉矶到萨克拉门托的旅途中，他们的过去成为焦点，也引发对未来的质疑。

　　一个红衣屠夫赫然出现在泰国国内，他全身上下被血红色的雨衣所包裹，手里拖着巨大的红色行李箱。红衣屠夫行踪诡异，手段残忍，专以成年男性为猎杀对象，死者生前无不遭到痛苦折磨，而且全部遭到阉割。在此期间，连政府官员的纨绔公子哥也被杀害。红衣屠夫在全国上下引起轰动，警方更是压力巨大，焦头烂额。
　　阿泰是一名因杀人罪而入狱10年的重刑犯，他童年时的一个玩伴与红衣屠夫有着类似的手段。警方据此线索，开始将突破口锁定在阿泰身上。为了尽快离开监狱，阿泰许诺将抓住凶手，警方也承诺还其自由。阿泰根据屠夫留下的种种线索试图还原真相，不过这却是一场费解而危险的猫鼠游戏……

　　一架从洛杉矶飞往巴黎的747航班上，搭载了几名不速之客。他们是来自美国军方的科学家，现在正计划带着一具尸体逃离美国。此前，他们在CIA的授意下对疟疾病毒进行研究，旨在开发出适合战争需要的生化武器，最终他们一种神奇的病毒应运而生。被该病毒感染的人其生命力、爆发力以及意志都空前增强，与之相对疼痛感和恐惧心理则降至最低，即使身负重伤他们也能勇往直前，决不退缩。科学家们所带的尸体正携带这种恐怖的病毒。
　　飞机在空中遭遇强烈的雷阵雨，剧烈的颠簸将行李舱内的尸体释放出来，并迅速化身为毫无人性、嗜血如命的恐怖僵尸。才从暴风雨的侵袭中舒缓过来的乘客们怎么也没想到，机舱很快将变成充满杀戮的血腥地狱……

　　Fraught with over obvious symbolism, Hartley's early feature is nonetheless a joy to watch. Hal here shows us his uncanny ability to cast his characters perfectly came early in his career.
　　Adrienne Shelley is a near perfect foil to herself, equal parts annoying teen burgeoning in her sexuality (though using sex for several years); obsessed with doom and inspired by idealism gone wrong she is deceptively – and simultaneously – complex and simple. Her Audrey inspires so many levels of symbolism it is almost embarrassingly rich (e.g., her modeling career beginning with photos of her foot – culminating her doing nude (but unseen) work; Manhattan move; Europe trip; her stealing, then sleeping with the mechanics wrench, etc.)
　　As Josh, Robert Burke gives an absolutely masterful performance. A reformed prisoner/penitent he returns to his home town to face down past demons, accept his lot and begin a new life. Dressed in black, and repeatedly mistaken for a priest, he corrects everyone ("I'm a mechanic"), yet the symbolism is rich: he abstains from alcohol, he practices celibacy (is, in fact a virgin), and seemingly has taken on vows of poverty, and humility as well. The humility seems hardest to swallow seeming, at times, almost false, a pretense. Yet, as we learn more of Josh we see genuineness in his modesty, that his humility is indeed earnest and believable. What seems ironic is the character is fairly forthright in his simplicity, yet so richly drawn it becomes the viewer who wants to make him out as more than what he actually is. A fascinatingly written character, perfectly played.
　　The scene between Josh and Jane (a wonderful, young Edie Falco . . . "You need a woman not a girl") is hilarious . . . real. But Hartley can't leave it as such and his trick, having the actors repeat the dialogue over-and-over becomes frustratingly "arty" and annoying . . . until again it becomes hilarious. What a terrific sense of bizarre reality this lends the film (like kids in a perpetual "am not"/"are too" argument).
　　Hartley's weaves all of a small neighborhood's idiosyncrasies into a tapestry of seeming stereotypes but which delves far beneath the surface, the catalyst being that everyone believes they know what the "unbelievable truth" of the title is, yet no two people can agree (including our hero) on what exactly that truth is. A wonderful little movie with some big ideas.