He thrusts Diaz into a position of having to make an ethical choice in regard to giving in to temptation. I do sort of get why Koepp added this part. I’m sorry, but if I’m traveling to a remote village in search of a deadly pathogen, the last thing that will be on my mind is a romp in the airplane restroom with my married colleague whom I just met 20 minutes prior. Especially those that add an unlikely and oddly placed sexual dynamic between two people in the middle of a potentially planet altering crisis.

I don’t read a lot of suspense thrillers and when I do I tend to do a bit of eye rolling at the typical character tropes and stereotypes. Or so they think.īrief side note about the beginning. They take a sample, nasty fungal you-know-what hits the fan, and the team members nuke the town and save humanity. What killed them is what our heroes are there to find, a deadly fungus from space that had been lying dormant in this sleepy outback town since its arrival on Earth in 1979. We very quickly jump back to the beginning of the expedition where our two prospective heroes go with an impossibly sexy and charming microbiologist with a thirst for married men to a remote town belonging to a tribe of just 26 aboriginal members of the Pintupi tribe, a tribe that ceased to exist all within a matter of hours. Trini is his brash but likeable sidekick. He even has the perfect wife and perfect kid as the cherry on top. A hotshot hero who is a little too handsome and is in possession of superb physical and mental capabilities that ensure that he’s pretty much the most impressive specimen on Earth. Roberto is introduced as the perfect man’s man. While I think it pales in comparison to his fabulous Hollywood work, this is a pretty solid effort.Ĭold Storage begins in 1987 with a specialized team of bioterror experts, Roberto Diaz and Trini Romano, leaving something bad in a cold storage facility tucked into the limestone mines in Atchison Kansas. Basically, the man has an intimate understanding of suspense. These include Jurassic Park, Mission: Impossible, Carlito’s Way, and Panic Room. Koepp is a veteran screenwriter and director in Hollywood with tons of blockbuster credits to his name. While his name might not immediately ring any bells for a lot of readers, odds are every single person who reads this review has encountered the work of David Koepp at some point in the past thirty-plus years.

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