A missed opportunity.

Rating: 5/10 (19 September 2000)

The jaw-dropping special effects are practically the only worthy aspect of this surprisingly dull (and wildly overrated) horror movie. Lifeless and uninvolving, filled with uninteresting characters and potentially tense scenes (the attempt at trying to figure out who is infected by examining blood samples) that don't pay off. Don't ask me why, they just don't. Carpenter's followers sometimes seem willing to admire all his efforts, but this time he misses the mark. (*1/2)