some good visual effects but a threadbare storyline..

Rating: 6/10 (16 May 2007)

the first job of a horror movie is to make you jump, and this film does have several good moments in that department. but the storyline really could have been a lot tighter...
an ultra high security compound that allows 2 kids out to roam the streets. and then we are meant to believe these children would have the guts to go outside in the first place, then enter a creepy deserted pizza joint and take scooter keys from a bony corpse. sorry?
then allow a janitor into a quarantine zone with the first armed troop being a mile away
then a chopper that manages to decapitate dozens of rage victims (nice effect though) without crashing
..the list goes on and on. the film could have gone in exactly the same direction, but would have been more convincing if underpinned by a tighter storyline
and the greatest crime of all? allowing Robert Carlyle, the best actor in the room by a long chalk, to spend 3/4's of the movie running around like a rabid dog!
overall pretty entertaining, but with a quality story and better utilisation of a great actor, this movie could have been outstanding