Genetics

Rating: 3/10 (6 January 2007)

As a geneticist, I was a bit taken back by this movie. The mutants make statements that they were driven into the mine by the nuclear testing and that it was the nuclear testing that "made them." Certainly radiation can cause harm to DNA, but that would show up in the NEXT generation. Given the ages of the mutants and the approximate time line, it wasn't clear that it was their parents who were radiated causing those births; nor that enough time had past for a second generation to be produced --- assuming the parents did not receive sufficient radiation causing them to die prior to producing offspring. While certainly radiation exposure can result in "mutant" offspring, most of them would either be still born or die shortly after birth.