The shortest 100 minutes ever

Rating: Null/10 (18 January 2008)

Man, this has got to be the shortest 100 minutes movie I've ever seen -- I left the theatre feeling quite unsatisfied. As you contemplate at the conclusion of the film what you've just watched, it suddenly hits you: "Hey, that's it? Where did my 100 minutes go?" Now, allow me to elaborate on this. Basically the film can be broken down into a series of brief flashbacks about events in NYC before the outbreak of a mutant-making virus (turning ordinary humans to scary blood thirsty evil men-mutants) along with the following main sections:
1. Guy and dog shuffling around a deserted NYC hunting deers for food.
2. Dog makes a mistake while chasing a deer and enters a door into a dark apartment building where the savage and seemingly indestructible UV-allergic men-mutants typically live. Guy goes inside, fights evil men-mutants and saves dog. Also, guy ensnares one mutant-lady for mutant-making-virus antidote trials.
3. Guy and dog shuffling around the city again. But this time guy makes a mistake, falls for one of his own planted booby traps, gets strung up upside down on a rope, knocks his head and falls unconscious. Dog barks for hours on end to wake guy up, but to no avail. Guy regains consciousness near sunset, but too late as the bad mutant-men and their mutant-mutts come out to play. At the end, beloved dog is bitten and severely injured by the mutant-mutts. Returning home, dog is turning mutant due to bites and guy reluctantly kills beloved dog.
4. Guy goes on a night suicide mission to avenge death of dog. He gets totally creamed by the men-mutants and almost dies. A mysterious UV-flashing stranger comes to the rescue and drives guy home.
5. Guy meets the UV-flashing lady saviour and her boy companion, have chit-chat etc. Men-mutants track guy, lady and boy to guy's house and ransack the place. Guy, lady and boy get trapped in guy's basement laboratory behind a powerful glass barrier. Mutants slam themselves to glass to break in. All accidentally see that the last trial antidote is working on mutant-lady guinea pig. Guy knows he must sacrifice himself to save lady and boy. Guy takes blood sample from mutant-lady, passes it to the lady, and asks lady and boy to leave via a tunnel/crawl space through the wall.
6. Guy takes grenade, pulls the pin, charges at the mutant-men and KABOOM while lady and boy make it to safety and a human survivor compound with the precious blood sample of mutant lady guinea pig. All is well and the human race is saved. HURRAH. The end.
That's all there is to it. I think there simply wasn't enough plot or story for 100 minutes. Overall, still mildly entertaining, but left me wanting more, a lot more...
Score: 6/10