Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
London architect Martin Kennedy
(Cillian Murphy) and his unhappy journalist wife Kate (Thandiwe Newton) often
visit a small, remote, uninhabited island off the west coast of Scotland called
Blackholme Island for their holiday retreats. The only dwelling on the island,
Fairweather Cottage, is seasonally operated by the owner Doug from the mainland
and only reachable by ferry. After previously suffering a miscarriage,
Kate's relationship with Martin has become tense, and in an effort to rekindle
their marriage they decide on a return visit to the island. A few nights into
their stay, the generator in the cottage explodes, injuring Martin's arm and
leaving them without electricity. They use the CB radio, their only source
of communication to the mainland, to call Doug, who ferries out to help them.
Kate spends the next day waiting
at the jetty for Doug to arrive, but to no avail. Later a mysterious man in
green combat fatigues washes up on the island, bloodied and half-conscious.
When he comes round, he identifies himself as a soldier, Private Jack Coleman
(Jamie Bell). He tells Martin and Kate that there has been an outbreak of
an airborne disease, Argromoto Flu, codenamed R1N16, which started in South
America and has spread over the entire world in the time-span of a
few weeks. The disease is incurable and highly contagious, attacking the
respiratory system and causing the victims to choke on blood with a 100%
fatality rate. Jack says that the military have lost control, and are now
advising civilians to seal themselves up in their homes and not allow anybody
access. With only static now coming from the CB radio, Martin decides to play
it safe and help Jack, who aggressively takes command and boards up the door
and windows.
Over the next few days, Jack
becomes increasingly strange and erratic, and his intimidating behaviour begins
to disturb the couple even further. They suspect that the virus may be a lie
and that Jack is insane. When Kate asks him if he is married, he tells her his
wife died of R1N16 and he becomes aggressive and threatening. Martin and Kate
decide to leave the cottage and take their chances outside, but Jack refuses to
let them, forcing them into the bedroom at gunpoint and locking them in. Martin
sneaks outside through a skylight, finding the bodies of Doug and his wife at
the pier, killed by gunshot. Using Doug's hunting shotgun, Martin returns to
the cottage and gets the upper hand on Jack. However, just as Kate begins to
tie Jack's hands behind his back, Martin suddenly begins coughing up blood; it
appears the Argromoto Flu is very real and he is infected. Kate is forced to
shoot her husband dead with the shotgun, to spare him a slow and agonising
death.
Forced at gunpoint, Jack reveals
to Kate that he was experimented on at a military compound and released without
anyone having realized he was a carrier of R1N16. Jack had infected
his wife, killing her, and fled to Blackholme Island to quarantine himself
where the couple found him. Jack reveals that the CB radio worked all along,
and he had just changed the settings so that Kate and Martin would not be able
to reach anyone. Jack fixes the CB radio, and the military broadcast on it
claims that the soldiers have a vaccine against the virus. Jack tells Kate that
the military are lying; there is no vaccine, and the military would kill them
both if they were discovered. Kate does not believe him and, angered by the
possibility that Martin could have been saved, she shoots Jack dead. As she attempts
to leave the island in the boat with Martin's body, a military helicopter flies
over and she is killed by a sniper who shoots her in the head.
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