Unnecessarily Raunchy

Rating: 1/10 (24 June 2006)

First of all I put a spoiler tag on here just to be sure... There are no specific details in this review.
While this Wes Craven film has a good concept, and I have nothing but respect for him, this movie was SICK. There were things that just did not need to be done at all to get the point across.
I was so excited to see this movie, and rented the "Unrated" version as soon as it came out. I don't know if it was because it was unrated that it was so terrible, but I saw things way beyond what were necessary to enrich the story.
Just to give you an idea, my husband is a US Marine and at one point he got up and walked away. We have no problems with blood and guts, but rape and such things are a little different. If you have qualms about sexual abuse, or anything like it then maybe you should skip this one.
The storyline is great... A little slow in the beginning, but it moves along in the latter portion of the movie. Aside from the plethora of inaccurate information (no one could survive the initial blast unless they were VERY far away from it; all dummies in the test site were almost intact aside from a bit of charring... Nuclear bombs completely obliterate everything within a large radius)the story is great and has a strong psychological draw. It will definitely leave you with your mouth hanging wide open at times.
All in all I give this 3 stars, just because the raunchy parts override the good parts.