I am clueless!

Rating: 4/10 (1 February 2008)

Why are most big blockbusters bereft of any substance? Why do they all rely on SFX that more often than not look patently ridiculous? Why do big studios and bigger stars greenlight such projects when it is so obvious that stories with natural running times of 45 minutes are being stretched to 90 minutes & beyond? Apart from a not-easy-to-digest premise, where our hero is ostensibly the last man on earth after a human-engineered cancer cure goes horribly wrong wiping out all mankind and leaving only some hideously deformed light-sensitive mutants who come out at night to prey on whoever/whatever they can find, the film suffers from shockingly low-grade SFX - something just not expected from a studio tentpole release of this magnitude. This is bite-sized category entertainment masquerading as a 4-course meal. Why has it made so much money? Search me...I AM CLUELESS!