Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: somewhat entertaining, but still really stupid.

This movie was only slightly better than your basic horror cliche; the nuclear testing/mutant premise seemed promising, but all the main characters were stupid/annoying. Seemingly to make up for the lack of interesting characters, the script-writers/director threw in lots of unnecessary gore. For the most part, though, the special effects were at least well-done; however, a few of the effects were somewhat misguided. For instance, blood on bodies that have been sitting out for awhile in the hot desert is red; wouldn't it dry to brown very shortly in that kind of heat?? Acting was mediocre. I've never seen the original, so I cannot say whether this is better or worse. The movie is not for the faint-of-heart simply because of the gore, but it definitely wasn't very scary. Two stars.