Below average movie: Here is how they could improve it.

Rating: 4/10 (15 July 2006)

The director really couldn't decide where he was going with this movie. I think he was trying to go for the "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" effect but ended up with a movie that was a very bad horror in the first half and a decent action in the second half.
There are certain parts of the movie that could be edited out entirely- the entire first third of the movie except the first 10 or 15 minutes could have been taken out with no effect on the plot. The main part that needs to be removed is the section concerning the gas station. This is how the movie progressed:
1. Talks about nuclear weapons testing which resulted in mutants. five min 2. Family traveling near testing area. three min 3. Gasses up, is sent into the dangerous zone by the gas attendant. FORTY MINUTES. 4. Crashes in danger zone. five minutes 5. "Dad" goes off and dies. five minutes *At this point, the supposed horror movie becomes an action movie* 6. Women are raped, Baby is stolen. ten minutes 7. The other guy goes on a killing spree to get his baby back. forty-five minutes 8. End.
This is a very rough summary of time spent in each main "portion" of the movie, and as the reader of this can see, almost a third of the movie was devoted to the gas station portion where pretty much nothing happened, except that the gas attendant became angry at a woman for going through his bag and sent them to their death. The director needs to change the movie into either a complete horror, or a complete action movie.