After being infected in the wake of a violent pandemic and with only 48 hours to live, a father struggles to find a new home for his baby daughter.
8 September 1971, Aldershot, Hampshire, England, UK
1952, Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, Australia
1 July 1953, Maningrida, Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia
21 September 1977, Brisbane, Australia
May 18, 2018
An elevated zombie thriller with a killer hook.May 16, 2018
Co-directors Ben Howling and Yolanda Ramke (the latter of whom wrote the screenplay) sacrifice some tension with their more character-based approach, but the cumulative effect is emotionally powerful.May 14, 2018
The Australian setting brings a fresh, and epic, quality to this now done-to-death genre, and the directors introduce a few nice new kinks to the zombie mythology.May 18, 2018
Perhaps the highest compliment I can pay it is that I think George A. Romero himself would have liked it.May 09, 2018
From Romero's original zombie series to the films it inspired, this type of horror succeeds when it laces its scares with biting social commentary, and Cargo utilizes this formula to great success.May 17, 2018
While Cargo is not quite in the same refined league as those works, this eerily effective hybrid of zombie thriller and apocalyptic odyssey deserves to be seen and appreciated by as wide an audience as possible.May 17, 2018
It tries just a touch too hard to make the point...but Freeman and Landers are so strong and Geoffrey Simpson's cinematography so sumptuous that it hardly matters.May 17, 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.May 17, 2018
Cargo is proof, if it were needed, that Freeman can carry his own movies.May 17, 2018
Plenty to admire in "Cargo," which does a different zombie stomp, finding a fresh approach to a customary story of survival, giving the norm some genuine heart and moments of futility.May 16, 2018
Been there, undead that.April 24, 2018
This familiar saga eschews jolting scares for survival-esque (and dark-heart-of-man) thrills, relying largely on Freeman's compelling lead turn to set it apart from the genre.