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I enjoyed it. It was close to what I expected -- haunting as much as exciting and with a bit of thoughtfulness. It got a little lazy in its examination of an intelligent man stuck in hopeless solitutude. But such are the limits of genre, I suppose. Talking to store mannequins and tossing plates of scrambled eggs as emotional release valves for a "brilliant scientist" don't do it for me. But man against the mutants always has appeal, and there was no keeping me away from the chance to see a german shepherd in a key role. Notice how the dog kept circling him after he was wounded and backing away toward his car? Trained dog.

I also question the hyper-steroidal special effects. While the early hints and glimpses of the mutants were effective, I found the growing assault of special effects taking me out of story.