Rating: 
Summary: Weak movie with weaker ending
Review: This movies not scary, not funny and not camp. It's just a poor movie. Our top secret military installations have the worst security I've ever seen-easily breached by three wannabe college journalists. Then, as typical in these type movies, the secret computer files are hacked into by our 3 "heroes" in a matter of seconds. There's really nothing about this movie to recommend. It's not even a worthwhile rental. The ending is really dumb, with the police watching helplessly, as the heroine dangles from a helicopter by a rope, armed with an armor piercing bazooka firing at the "spider" on a skyscraper-which one would think would be full of people, even if it's night-there are bound to be maintenance workers. Hey--so what--let the girl, who has lost her glasses as well, take her shot at the monster what are a few dozen casualties if she misses! One thing about this movie-you'll be glad when it's over!
Rating: 
Summary: What in the world was Trimark thinking?
Review: With this latest addition to the "spiders on the loose" subgenre (preceded by the vastly superior "Arachnophobia" and the soon to be released "Arac Attack"), the filmmakers show you how to throw away millions of dollars, although this particular movie manages to look like it cost a buck ninety-eight."Spiders" opens with a top secret mission in which a space shuttle crew combines alien DNA with that of a tarantula. Needless to say, the resulting mutation arrives back on earth and soon begins wreaking havoc within a top secret base. However, the instillation is not SO terribly top secret that a small band of college students, led by plucky Lana Parrilla as the film's heroine, can't infiltrate the building (while hunting down a story for the college paper, no less). The result is a movie drenched in blood and gore, filled with endless chase scenes, and offering some of the worst special effects in recent memory. The script is laughably bad and features both quintessential characters and tired plot devices lifted from other horror and action films. There's the duplicitous U.S. government which is once again up to no good (and performing the same type of experiment as in the remake of "The Blob"), the ruthlessly evil colonel out to protect the creatures, even at the expense of his own life, the Ripley-esque heroine in Parrilla (whom you will either root for or want to feed to the spiders, depending on how grating you think she is), and the hunky young government agent, played by Josh Green, who naturally has to strip off his suit and tie so he can expose his buffed arms and run around the second half of the movie in a tank top undershirt (a holdover from "Die Hard" -- and personally, having this pretty boy doff his shirt -- off-camera, unfortunately -- and show some of his toned body was the ONLY part of the film I liked). College students are eaten, a huge spider tramples through the city, and there are explosions galore before the movie is done. The often metioned "elevator shaft" scene is amusing, as Parrilla tries to save her would-be hero student friend from being eaten by one of the creatures. The romance between Parrilla and Green is fairly trite, but what isn't in this movie? Oh yes, and the direction is hideous. When you have other Amazon.com reviewers commenting on how "Ticks" is a better version of this film, you know it's desperation time.
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