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Bats

5 star:		(8)
4 star:		(11)
3 star:		(11)
2 star:		(16)
1 star:		(22)

 

 

This is fun, fun film that's worth having fun with it despite many of the reviews to the contrary. I enjoyed the cheesy aspect of this film, it's almost classic watching Lou Diamond Philips shoot bats. It's in vein of They Live and movies of fun campy nature. Don't let the low rating fool you see it to enjoy it.

This movie was a severe dissapointment, and probably the worst I have seen. Not only was it a rip-off of "Birds", it lacked a plot, and contained poor dialogue. Do not buy this movie!

I was very mad at a couple of things,plot and diolauge.This movie is also very chessy!I was even surprise to see it in the movie theater.I have only one good thing to say about this movie,it is fun to watch.I mean,who didnt think this movie was going to be bad.My advice to you is just sit back and have fun!It is still kinda bad.Who in the hect is LEON?I have not even heard of him.

Thank god i didn't spend $8 but only $3 on a rental for this flop! The acting was so awful, what motivation did these actors have? and what happened to Lou Diamond? he was so good in La Bamba and now he is just losing the acting ability. The rest of the acting was down right terrible. The movie did have my attention for the bloody killing scenes but after about 45 minutes i totally lost interest. i didn't care about any of the characters as they were not interesting and if a bat did attack them, who really cared? and the Bats! what a hoot! they looked so fake. and even some of the effects for the attacked victims were bad..get a load of the dummies! don't bother with this if you really like horror movies or campy movies -- this wasn't even funny enough to be camp. STAy away from this one at the video store or you will regret it! trust me!

hey who dosen't love bats? i do and i thought this movie was great. Get the dvd its much better then the tape, the dvd has more features and you can see the bats more better then on the tape

I love the old genre of B horror movies. In this respect being bad is kind of good. The reason B movies are attractive is that the funny lines, poor acting, and camera mistakes all illustrate the movie-making process in a way that big-budget films hide at all costs. I might even be able to excuse this film if it had a good ending, but it didn't. They set off some cooling device and leave the cave, presuming they've killed all the bats. That's it! No last-minute-bad-guy-scary-shot, no effects at all of the bats dying, or chasing the protagonists, nothing. Let me say this again...they turn on the cooling thing, they get in the truck, they drive home. Does that sound like the end of a good movie? This films one redeeming moment is the gremlinesque bat invasion of the town. There is also a cool shot where thousands of bats covering a truck all look to the camera at once revealing thousands of red eyes. Other than these small glimmers of a good movie, I was GREATLY dissapointed. However, I am a movie nut, and it looks like they're packing this thing with features, so I may have to rent it and give it a second chance.

Bats, how many words are there to describe it.It was probably the worst movie i've ever seen next to Dudly Do-right. IT was a cheap rip off of of the movie "the birds" by alfred Hitchcock. The acting wasn't to bad but the story line on the other hand was the worst. The ending was stupid and there was no plot. They just ran around and did what ever, there really was not point except to get rid of the bats, some stuff was taken out of nowhere and just shoved into the movie. Well thanks.

Bats may well be the second best swarm of bats threatens Texas town movie ever made and also serves as a timely reminder that the `acclaimed playwright' who wrote The Aviator is also responsible for more generic efforts like Star Trek Nemesis and The Time Machine remake. The major thing the film has going for it is that at least it knows its rubbish even though it does play it straight, even when the dialog is pure z-movie ("Yes, major - it was us!"). The characters are standard issue: Lou Diamond Philips is the small town Texas sheriff hiding a dark secret (he's an opera fan), Dina Mayer the bat expert whose insistence that she could never willing hurt a bat translates into killing hundreds of the suckers while Bob Gunton's the mad scientist who genetically enhanced the vicious little bloodsuckers. Why? "Because I'm a scientist. That's what we do."

Naturally, the bats head for the nearest town showing a revival of Nosferatu (it doesn't state whether its Murnau or Herzog, but clearly small town Texans have eclectic arthouse tastes), and this being Texas, where everybody knows everything about everything and immediately fill the streets with expendable extras for the obligatory Bodega Bay scene. Of course, these deadly bats only need to take one swoop and bite out of the bit players to take them out of the movie, but can swarm all over one of the leading players and leave them only mildly scratched, just as it's a well know movie fact that being attacked by any flying creature brings on a bad case of weird camera effects, and this one ups The Swarm's slow motion with a misaligned lens: once your image is distorted, you'd better have your affairs in order Junk, but watchable junk.

I DARE you to try to sit through five minutes of this movie. I sat through about an hour, and then I had to stop. Its not bad enough its a typical killer animal movie, but they have to raise the stupidity level beyond the knowledge of man.

OK, so there's an army of killer bats plaguing a town in west Texas. Sounds fair enough, I suppose. You already know in the first ten minutes this is going to be an awful film because of the dialogue and script. The scientist who created the killer bats says he did it, "Because I'm a scientist. Thats what we do." Lines like this deserve a laugh track.

The female zoologist - the only bat expert in all of America - is, of course, an ignorant hippie who thinks these bats should be spared even though they have the potential of wiping out all of life on earth. The town sheriff just kinda mopes around and complains. His deputy does a lot more and is more likeable, but he gets eaten by bats.

The movie gets worse. Let me explain: imagine yourself in a restaurant, eating your food. Wouldn't you notice a giant, ugly bat slowly walking up to you on your right? "Bats" seems to think you wouldn't. And also, lets say you're playing a video game and two feet away from you one of your best friends is attacked by a bat and runs around the room screaming as the bat tears into his flesh. Wouldn't you notice that? "Bats' seems to think you wouldn't.

As usual after the bats attack the military moves in. They look more like the Kentucky national guard than real soldiers, but what do you expect with this movie? Oh yeah and they get wiped out by the bats. Guess defense budget cuts took away all their radar, huh?

I stopped watching as the main characters bar themselves inside a school. At that point, every thing was just too predictable. How many times have main characters barred themselves in some where to fight off a horde of giant animals? Its sad when a direct-to-video mosquito movie does it better than a theatrical release.

Finally, one last quarrel with this movie: if you watch this movie, you will see the biggest token black character in the history of film. I refer, of course, to the female zoologist's assistant. He could be removed from the film and the movie would still run a smooth course. Most of his speech is a corny one-liner that is quickly ignored.

So yes, watch this with your friends, but either bring drugs or alcohol, because thats the only way you're going to enjoy the movie. No wait...I'm sorry, stoners have a better taste in film than that.

When a Small Time Texas Sheriff (Lou Diamond Phillips), A Scientist (Dina Meyers) and her Assistant (Leon) investigate the Murder of a Young Couple, which the "Perps" are Mutant Bats.

This fun is very Fun, a lot of Action Scenes, Pretty Good Visual Effects (Which some Scenes are Cheap Looking) and Fast Paced. Only Complain is Graeme Revell lousy film Score. Which the DVD has the Isolated Music Score. DVD has an sharp anamorphic Widescreen (2.35:1) transfer and an Strong Dolby Digital 5.1 Expanded Surround Sound. This DVD has an often funny Commentary Track by Director:Louis Mornear and Actor:Lou Diamond Phillips. This is a Well Made, Campy Action/Horror film. Clairmont-Scope. Grade:B+.