After the somewhat odd sidestep (mis-step?) of Genesis - the third film in the [REC] series - this fourth and evidently final episode picks up from the second movie and attempts to pull together all the ideas and story threads whilst at the same time moving forward to a new location - here, a quarantine/research ship - making it a true hybrid, storywise and stylistically, of the preceding films. [REC] 4 is inevitably deeply generic, but there is some inventive direction, sound design is very effective, it hurtles along at a good pace, and new and returning actors are clearly invested in giving the enterprise strength. If this does turn out to be the series' swansong, it is nowhere near as good as the two openers but provides an acceptable conclusion.
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