Not so crazy for 'The Crazies'

It takes a lot of work to produce an award-winning thriller, one that sends chills down your spine and has you sleeping with one eye open making sure that someone isn’t waiting in your closet to kill you.

For some, it doesn’t take much to get freaked out by a scary movie. But for others, like myself, it takes a lot more to get frightened.

Unfortunately for “The Crazies,” which premiered on Feb. 26, director Breck Eisner and writers Ray Wright and Scott Kosar slightly missed the mark on those thrilling chills.

Although there were a couple of moments throughout the film that made me jump, it wasn’t enough to make the entire product a bone-chilling thriller.

Instead, it was predictable and therefore a little boring.

The film takes place in a quiet town in Iowa where everyone knows everyone.

After a military operation abruptly fails, and a plane with a mysterious toxin crashes into the town’s water supply, anyone exposed to it is overcome with insanity and go on  rampage, killing everyone in the town.

While trying to escape the mindless killers, Sheriff Dutton (Timothy Olyphant), his pregnant wife Judy (Radha Mitchell), Becca (Danielle Panabaker) and Russel (Joe Anderson) find themselves fighting for survival in a town that is no longer familiar to them.

Although there were many near-death obstacles throughout this film, our main characters amazingly survive and get away.

 Beside the fact that the scare factor was definitely absent from the film, and I did nothing but predict what was going to happen, Olyphant, Mitchell, Panabaker and Anderson did an excellent job in the roles they were given.

If you are looking for a thriller that will have you looking over your shoulder to make sure that no one is going to come and kill you, then “The Crazies” is most definitely not for you.

After all, you shouldnt’t pay to be bored when you can be bored in your own home for free.