Tragically stupid attempt for horror, but a nice comedy

Rating: 1/10 (17 July 2006)

This movie is really cheap. Cheap ideas and poor directing skills. The characters are acting so stupid all the time, that it is a good achievement for people with that intelligence to have survived under the circumstances of normal city-live.
I would classify the movie as "comedy" or "parody". It was a good idea to watch it with a bunch of lads (in Europe), who have a bit pervert sense of humor and laugh at other people's stupidity. We laughed all the time. We laughed loud. The fact, that we were able to predict the next scene in all these "tense" situations was good for the self-confidence.
But let me state some facts. The effects of radiation on the human body cause sickness and dead. Some anomalies are possible in later generations, but what we see in the movie is so far from the reality as the director from the Oscar is. But considering the rules of the genre, we can assume that the desert people are a special kind of cyborgs, who have developed strength of a tiger and mental skills of cartoon-donkey. After I watched how much and how brutal Doug has been beaten and then could run and fight... After I saw the one cyborg blowing Lynn's brains away with the same gun, that caused the mother to take off for 5 meters, I was sure she is dead. But some minutes later she was still tragically breathing in the hands of her loving husband. Then she even hiccupped. After I saw that boy falling off the rock and hitting the stony ground, but some hours later just having little scratch in the front of his face... After all this I was sure that all characters are cyborgs. Big Bob should be still alive. Well, he was just hit several times in a front window-glass and then was burning for some minutes. Furthermore the scene, where Doug hits the cyborg with the screwdriver is a clean copy-paste from Tarantino's "True romance".
The movie is really fun. But in the genre "thriller" I vote for 1(awful). All these good votes for the movie come because of the radiation and atom-bomb thematic, which seems to be a classic Joker in the hands of a good-for-nothing screenwriter (as racism is), that makes critic's mouths wide open shouting "Great movie...". I could make a movie, where 89 years old grandma farts radioactive gases and I would get the same "Great movie..." votes.