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Mosquito Man

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Mosquito man was a average movie but with a great mosquito costume.
99% of the mosquito man scenes are great, and only 1 scene where you
the mosquito costume revealed too much.
Now if they would have invested in a better script this movie could
have been a 4 star movie.
The non-action scenes because of boring ' deja vu stuff' almost kills this movie...i dont know who to blame ...the actors or the
direction. Also the music was not too bad,, but better music might
have brought this film to a 3.5.
There is enough gore for the horror fan to enjoy.

Yes, you can tell the mosquito man costume is a man in a suit most of the time, but this movie harkens back to the days of the paranoid fifties when everyone was terrified at what nuclear war could do. This time, the ever popular theme of messing with mother nature is given a new twist in MOSQUITO MAN. The victim this time is a nasty serial killer who has been brought to a laboratory to test out a new breed of skeeters that might help lower the casualties in a new virus propagated by mosquitos that is 100 times worse than the Nile virus. He makes an escape attempt, however, and in the process is infected with the DNA of these mosquitoes and turns into a nasty mosquito man. Cheesy, indeed, but its obvious homage to those bug movies of the fifties is appreciated by one of those fans of that era. Corin Nemec and the rest of the cast of relative unknowns do a fairly decent job and some of the scenes have a tense ambience that makes this above average.

when this was shown on SciFi it was titled "Mansquito". I don't know why they changed the title.

undoubtedly you've seen the previews on sci-fi which show the sexy scientist tearing off her blouse-- that and the [original]title tell you all you need to know about how cheesy and ridiculous this picture is-- but I hate to admit I found it strangely watchable. Corin Nemec plays a positively Beowulfian cop who tussles repeatedly with the mansquito but somehow survives each time, while(numerous) lesser men and women die within a few tenths of a second of their 'squito encounters. The story hurtles forward at a breathless pace,which is undoubtedly a good thing considering how silly it is. The heroine is also infected by radioactive skeeter juice(hence her need to disrobe(?), and she figures out that Only She can lure Mansquito to his doom...and you can probably guess the rest.

Look: obviously no one watches a teevee movie called "Mansquito!"(it needed an exclamation point, don't you think?) expecting King Lear, unless they have neurological problems or something. Mansquito! is the cinematic equivalent of cheese nachos: you hate to admit you occasionally crave because you know they're nutritional gargbage-- good in a bad way.

And gee, I didn't know mosquitos could growl-- did you?

Since the Sci-Fi channel would only air this movie about twice a year (and I always missed it), I finally caved in and bought the DVD. I hadn't seen this movie in two years until a month ago, and my memory of it hadn't changed a bit.

Even when the film starts off, it's really obvious that it's just the kind of b-grade science fiction film that would air on Sci-Fi during one of it's weekend marathons. Since I've been a fan of such movies since I was 13, I thoroughly enjoyed this movie. If you can't laugh/riff at bad acting, cheezy effects, and an awseome monster costume, then this is not something I'd recommend to you.

The menu isn't something to write home about, and it could be improved. I was also disappointed with the lack of deleted scenes and interviews (something even the infamous horror film "Jack Frost" had on the DVD release), but it does have commentary.

The script isn't half-bad, by the way. I've seen better, but I've also seen much worse. This movie would be fun to riff, but let's leave that to the professionals, shall we?

This movie at best is a $10 movie, it took me 2 days to watch this crappy movie. The effects suck they are all animated and look nothing real, not a tad real and are quit stupid. May I request a rent first, which when is done you willmost likely say" Thank god i didnt listen to the review Russ gave" $22 is a complete waste. Uless you just have $22 TO WASTE then yes buy it.

You want to see a good movie which is very similar, which Mosquito man has actually bit off of , in a sense. Go out and get the fly the one made in the 80's, featuring Jeff Goldbloom and Gina Davis. Just an awesome movie

I bought this movie awhile back and it just sat around for a long time. I finally pulled it off the shelf and decided to watch it. It was a good movie and I enjoyed the man in the mosquito monster costume. While its no oscar winner, I wouldnt say it was the worst film i've ever witnessed. A very fun movie and not nearly as bad make it out too be.

Mansquito (Tibor Takacs, 2005)

Corin Nemec first made a real impression in Hollywood as the male lead in the excellent, short-lived, highly underrated early-nineties sitcom Parker Lewis Can't Lose. With the exception of a role in the Mick Garris-helmed miniseries The Stand (in which he was woefully miscast and still managed to do an excellent job with the role), it's been all downhill from there.

Mansquito may be the nadir of Nemec's career. (His next flick puts him opposite the excellent, similarly underrated Ken Foree, so there's hope the long journey back into the light begins now.) Directed by Tibor Takacs, a man who has directed so many intended-for-theatrical-release-and-laughed-out-of-the-distribution-company-only-to-be-picked-up-by-the-Sci-Fi-Channel films it's amazing, Mansquito is the story of a (gorgeous, naturally) scientist (Musetta Vander [recently seen in O, Brother, Where Art Thou? for a very short time, turning John Turturro into a toad]) and her boyfriend (Nemec) the cop (because gorgeous research scientists have the time to have social lives, especially with cops, who work hours as long as theirs). The scientist is working for a company looking for a cure for the West Nile virus by genetically altering mosquitoes. There is the inevitable explosion, and the quickly-following Genetic Tampering Is Bad theme writ large, as a convict who's volunteered for human testing is exposed to radiation and, presumably, a large rain of disembodied mosquito parts, which turn him into, yes, the title character, who then goes around sucking peoples' blood and being hunted by said scientist and said cop. Takacs works with some of his favorite actors here, and they can't act any better than they ever could (Vander, especially, is not destined to get a lead role ever again, unless it comes from Takacs).

So you've got a plot thin enough that it's nonexistent, really bad acting, a script so awful it practically bleeds (let me rephrase an earlier statement: the nadir of Cory Nemec's career comes with the line "HEY, MANSQUITO!"). What could there possibly be worth watching about this dog? Well, it has the automatic train-wreck appeal: it's so bad you can't stop watching. But it also has, despite its silliness, an innate sense of pace. I grant you, there is no tension whatsoever to be built here, unless you're playing a drinking game that involves cast members spouting cliches. But if there were tension to be built here, the structure of the film allows that it might have actually happened. It's a surprisingly fast two hours. Though, granted, it's still two hours of your life that you will never get back.

Oh, and no mosquitoes were harmed in the writing of this review. Not surprising, since it's early March, and I'm in Cleveland. *

Disc came very fast... This was a prerelease disc with not for sale or rental every 10 minutes the screen went to black and whit and stated not for sale... Im sur seller didnt know this was not a prerelease demo type dvd... But we got stuck with a disc thats not worth watching.

Mosquito Man is about a beautiful female scientist who is working on mutating mosquitos with radiation to make them capable of combating a strain of mosquito which is carrying a serious illness. All this go wrong however when a convicted serial killer is secretly smuggled into the lab to be experimented on. Off course this killer escapes and end up in a lab accident with the mutated bugs turning him into a half man, half mosquito monster. Now a policeman, and the scientist who happens to both be the policeman on the case's girlfriend, and having been infected by the mutated bugs herself have to stop the monster, and that is about the gist of the plot.

Mosquito Man is a typical 1950 style creature feature, there is a monster running around which is obviously a man in a rubber suit and a good looking hero have to try to stop the monster as it racks up a body count. In this way the movie works quite well. I also liked the whole plot around the scientist slowly becoming a mosquito person herself. The movie's effects are cheesy however there are some good gore effects, and it seams that much of this film's obviously small budget went into that.

I enjoyed Mosquito Man however I think the movie took itself a little to seriously. When a movie is this cheesy it works so much better if there is a little humor in it, humor makes bad effects so much more forgivable. Mosquito Man however tries to be a serious movie however with a man running around in a rubber bug suit it do not really pull that off very well. The actors in this film do a passable job though it do feel a bit like they are just reading from a script. This is definitely a B film so do not expect it to be the greatest thing ever. However if you know what you are getting, a typical creature feature cheesefest then I think you will enjoy this flick. This is a movie to put on when you do not really want to think, you just want to be entertained by seeing a monster run around and killing people with nothing seemingly being able to stop it. Mosquito Man have some big flaws and it takes itself far to seriously, the acting is flat and the effects are laughable, however the movie is what you can expect from this kind of movie, and if you like creature features then it is entertaining.

I loved it so much action,gore,and shooting even you can tell its a guy in a costume its awesome.their is a lot of people killed and you can give the movie some credit it did have a happy ending,so give it some credit OK.