I'm a little disappointed

Rating: 4/10 (25 June 2006)

OK through this I am pretty much just going to point out the stupidity or illogical decisions I saw. After a long introduction the movie really picks up. One thing that I do'nt think was properly explained was the gas station attendants relation with the mutants. Here are my thoughts. 1.He in someway raised the mutants after their parents death(Although papa Jupiter looks to old for this to be) 2.He only made a deal to send people to the mutants. So anyway after the families car breaks down I start to have some major problems with the story. Here are a few -Bob(the father) fires rounds from his revolver into the air, basing his shots only on sound(it's made clear he was a police officer) -After finding his large German Shepherd ripped open Bobby decides to tell no one in an effort not to scare anyone. He does however later bolt from the RV with a gun after the dog gets off its chain. -When the mutants begin burning big Bob the mother comes out of the "3 person RV" without noticing her daughter being raped by what later appears to be a 7 foot tall mutant -This maybe a goof I'm not really sure, but during the burn a piece of big Bobs burning shirt blows up to reveal perfectly unharmed flesh OK then after having experiencing 3 murders Doug decides to wonder off into the desert with a dog and a baseball bat. I know it was to get his child, but still thats just not a good plan..or a plan at all.. So after somehow finding the prop town I ran into another problem. -Doug manages to get himself and the dog into the car without making a single sound in an inhuman amount of time.I guess this is excusable though. So after sneaking into the playroom to get his baby he is knocked out and placed in a human butchers shop while other then a bump on the head he is completely unarmed(in contrast with what is in the freezer(?) he wakes up in which is full of well butchered arms and legs. After breaking out and being attacked by a huge mutant(papa Pluto I think, but his name is never made clear) and when finally given a break from the fighting by the dog Doug decides to lock himself in a bathroom(?) instead of beating the hell out of the mutant while he's being distracted by the dog. So after having 2 of his fingers chopped off(which really seems to have no effect on his ability to grasp objects) Doug stabs the mutant in the foot(which kind of confuses my perception of the mutants stamina given that 5 minutes before he was stabbed in the STOMACH by a pike) he distracts him long enough to grab the American flag out of the head of big Bob(who for some reason was'nt put in the butchery for unknown reasons) stab the mutant in the neck and then finish him off. This is where I also got a little confused. Why did the mutant with the neck brace and a limp get a gun despite the almost complete lack of peripheral vision while the rest of the mutants got spike strips and pick axes. I thought at first maybe Pluto did'nt get the gun because he only has one(working) eye..then I remembered him driving a pickup at the beginning Well anyway Doug kills this mutant easily and takes his shotgun then goes to another house to look for his baby. After not finding her and being introduced to 2 characters(the girl with the boil and the boy who looked like he came out of a chimney) who do absolutely nothing whatsoever to advance the plot Doug runs back outside to see Ruby(a little mutant girl) on the cliff with his baby. He then runs after her and is attacked by Lizard. After lizard beats Doug to what should be to death he runs after Ruby because killing the baby is so important.. Doug then retrieves the shotgun smashes Lizards face with it then unloads 3 rounds(1 being in Lizards neck!) he then is given his baby as Lizard inevitably stands back up with the shotgun that was conveniently laid by him and attempts to kill Doug, but is pushed off a cliff by(and with) Ruby. Meanwhile the surviving family(Bobby and Brenda) setup a trap for any mutants who come close enough to the RV. Here is where I run into some more problems -Papa Jupiter although I may be mistaken looks completely normal -Bobby unloads a clip mostly into the air, but he also manages to hit Jupiter twice(there were even small dust clouds from the impact)... These rounds simply bounce off.. So instead of taking the front door Jupiter for some reason decides to go around and play peak-a-boo with the kids...he then comes back around after untying his hands from a bungee chord and opens the door to meet a wall of fire(the kids escape the explosion though) The kids then meet Doug who's been walking in a desert with an infant wrapped in a blanked. So the kids and Doug are stranded in the Desert as some other either unmentioned or surviving mutant is watching them in the distance. About the only character who had any sense was the dog, beast. On the plus side though the suspense is well done along with the gore..The movie really just isn't scary though other than a couple of shock moments. If anything it's a little disturbing.