Needs more gore!

Rating: 5/10 (14 May 2003)

Could have been better... The premise is pretty good but the film cops out by reducing the amount of gore in order to get an R rating.

For instance, the cool scene showing them getting sliced in the hallway by the lasers, was cropped. I wanted to see big hunks of meat lying on the floor, yet the camera quickly cuts away so we don't get to see much of anything. I think a scene like that should be graphic since it shows everything else, short of what's being piled up on the floor.

In Anderson's previous film, EVENT HORIZON, the implication (of gore) worked pretty well but not here, imo. The result being that the scene looks cut instead of implied because the director shows too much restraint.

Fear of censorship, Mr. Anderson? That's understandable since something like that could have qualified for the UK's "nasties list", so why not have a director's DVD cut for those who want more gore?
And some of the cgi looks sloppy with the torn up faces of the walking dead looking more animated than real. I think if they spent more time on it, they could've made it look better.
There's also an ending that looks like something out of the 70s film THE OMEGA MAN which is kinda cool, too. We don't get to see too many ambiguous things like that anymore.
I hope a future director's cut adds some more blood, guts and gore to it because this EVIL is holding back.
5 out of 10 for being cropped