If you're going to see it...see it on the big screen!

Rating: 9/10 (2 July 2005)

In my opinion, this was a magnificent adaptation and modernization of the original. It capably carries the foreboding feeling of impending tragedy and the will-sapping desperation that comes with the realization that humanity's best efforts are futile. Humans are extinct...we just don't know it yet. Unless you have a gigantic television or projection TV - preferably with surround sound and a decent sub woofer, a DVD just won't do this justice. The enormity of inexorable destruction and horror, the subsonic bass rumblings that herald human doom...these are best experienced on a big screen and stereo. Do yourself a tremendous sensate favour and ignore the hype for a couple of hours; immerse yourself in the first-person perspective. You'll find yourself in a waking version of those dreams we all have had: running and running from some implacable and inescapable *something*.