Many movies are built around the "billions of creatures attack" theme. Them, Gremlins, and god's gift to mankind, Aliens. Bats is just like those classic tales of man vs nature/gremlins. Except for two things.
1. It's not good.
2. It has bats in it.
Oh and the plot has a tendency to be really bad. Apparently scientists have been trying to engineer a super bat using a virus. When a bat gets this virus then it becomes larger, smarter, meaner, etc ad infinitum. A bat can get this virus from an already infected bat. So, one of these bats escapes from the lab, using its super intelligence no doubt, and gets to a bat cave.
The movie has Lou Diamond Phillips as its hero. That poor devil has been in so many awful movies, Supernova and Red Planet coming immediately to mind. He needs to flee like a startled rabbit from the next script they hand him.
Anyway, the whole movie just hit rock bottom with its plot and terrible special effects. Actually, change that. Not the whole movie. The ending was the best ending for a movie I've seen in a long time.
I'm gonna change this from 2.5 to 3 stars just because of the ending in fact. Excuse me for a second.
So, watch this movie just to see the ending. And to cut poor Lou some slack. In fact send him some money too. He deserves it.
1. It's not good.
2. It has bats in it.
Oh and the plot has a tendency to be really bad. Apparently scientists have been trying to engineer a super bat using a virus. When a bat gets this virus then it becomes larger, smarter, meaner, etc ad infinitum. A bat can get this virus from an already infected bat. So, one of these bats escapes from the lab, using its super intelligence no doubt, and gets to a bat cave.
The movie has Lou Diamond Phillips as its hero. That poor devil has been in so many awful movies, Supernova and Red Planet coming immediately to mind. He needs to flee like a startled rabbit from the next script they hand him.
Anyway, the whole movie just hit rock bottom with its plot and terrible special effects. Actually, change that. Not the whole movie. The ending was the best ending for a movie I've seen in a long time.
I'm gonna change this from 2.5 to 3 stars just because of the ending in fact. Excuse me for a second.
So, watch this movie just to see the ending. And to cut poor Lou some slack. In fact send him some money too. He deserves it.