“Eradication” (*1/2 out of four) was a grindingly inert and routine futuristic melodrama set in the midst of a worldwide pandemic in which an unknown disease has wiped out most of the Earth’s population and a man (Harry Aspinwall) with unique blood has been isolated for study but has to break quarantine to save his wife (Anita Abdinezhad) and finds himself hunted by monstrous beings and (yawn) a shadowy government agency trying to bring him back in for testing. Just a series of derivative ideas borrowed from many other (and more skillful) movies, specifically “28 Days Later.” Stark cinematography from Alexandra Gilwit and Zachary Ludescher is only virtue. It’s about time these post-apocalyptic/futuristic/end-of-the-world thrillers were “eradicated” themselves.

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