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Summary: Lou Diamond Phillips' agent should be fired! Now!
Review: What on earth is up with Lou Diamond Phillips? Is this really the same man who performed marvelously in Young Guns I/II and La Bamba? This is, by far, the worst performance of his career. I can't believe he even agreed to this ridiculous bigotry-stereotyped role. I expected much better of him.Overall, the film was not terrible. It wasn't good either. But it is good enough to sit through without changing the channel (I wouldn't pay to see it). The acting actually wasn't that bad, and the writing was decent. The special effects were horrible though. The F/X guys couldn't seem to decide on exactly how big the bats were supposed to be. In the beginning, they appeared to be about the size of normal bats with a 12" wingspan. But in some of the 1-on-1 attacks on people (this was the worst part of the movie), they appeared to be 40+ lb monsters with 4-ft wingspans! And the close-up shots of the bats were so dumb. They didn't look like bats at all. They looked like plastic toys with moving gears. Another bad part of the movie was the jumping around of the camera. During the most intense scenes, the camera jumped from scene-to-scene so fast, you couldn't make out exactly what they were supposed to be showing. Calm it down on the camera jumps fellas. Quick jumps don't add to the intensity; they just make you dizzy. This was definitely the dizziest I'd been since forcing myself to sit through an entire showing of Blair Witch without vomiting. I still don't understand why directors feel the need to personify deadly creatures in horror movies today. The stupid head and eye movements and cunning (crawling up your back) of the bats was simply unbelievable. This reminded me a lot of the worst creature-horror movie, Anaconda. If you thought the bats looked too silly to be real, you'll get a real kick out of that stupid snake. Anaconda was more like a cartoon than a motion picture. And somebody PAID to see that garbage? I give it * and it's just good enough to watch on cable on a night that you had no plans. Don't expect a lot, especially out of knee-slap hicky Sheriff Lou Diamond Phillips. Yuck.
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Summary: Buy it if you enjoy pathetic movies....
Review: This movie was not only boring, the acting was bad, the special effects were laughable and the storyline and script was shocking. I wouldn't recommend this film, however it was a little entertaining. Definately not a movie you'd buy to watch over and over again. The special features were hardly interesting. [I watched the Region 4, M15+ version of the film).
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Summary: Entertaining... and NOT because you're laughing at it.
Review: With all the things I've read about this movie, I fully expected that the only genuine entertainment "Bats" could offer would be belly laughs from watching the cheesy effects and bad acting. But-- surprise, surprise-- this was amazingly not the case. The bat effects are plentiful and effective, the cinematography and direction are competent, and the acting isn't bad (I especially liked Dina Meyer, whose natural performance actually made you believe she was an expert on bats). Let's be clear, however. Don't expect characterizations of particular depth or clever plot twists, 'cause you ain't getting that stuff. This is basically a 90-minute movie about bats attacking people, but on that score it delivers. Oh, yes- the movie DEFINITELY gained points for giving us ONE twist, a subversive variation of the old "last shot of the movie showing us that one of the menaces has SURVIVED" cliche; just when you think you're going to see that same old scene again, something else happens, and it's a riot. The DVD has loads of extras, including a hilarious commentary track by the director and Lou Diamond Phillips. Definitely recommended as a rental, and if you're a big fan of schlocky but effective horror movies like "Tremors" and "Lake Placid", don't hesitate to buy "Bats". Okay, okay-- if you DO buy it, try to get it cheap. But do give it a look.
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Summary: This was simply incipid.
Review: Poorly acted. Terribly written. Dark - yes, I understand that it was meant to be that way, but you can hardly see anything throughout the movie due to the bad cinematography - silly, and simply a waste of 2 hours. I cannot imagine wanting to see this movie more than once. I was sorely disappointed by the special effects. And the bats themselves are truly ugly. The puppeteers had no earthly idea what they were doing, apparently, as the halty-jerky motion of the bats was clearly the result of lack of experience....
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Summary: This movie will stick in your throat !
Review: This modern remake of "In Cold Blood." This is not the first bat movie and will probably not be the last. However you have to admit that the close-ups show such little cuties that only a mother could love them. And the mad scientist makes faces that look like Peter Sellers in "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) ASIN: 0800141709." At one point they decide that the bats are intelligent (e=(mc*2)). So when they thought about cooling off the little critters. I had this vision that a farmer saying that the bats had snatched his sheep bald. And the next scene is of all these bats wearing cardigan sweaters. The plot is simple and straightforward; get rid of the bats. Some may say that this is a bat plot. But I say it is good. By using batteries and fencing to protect a building, the movie looked like a cross between a bug zapper and the old James Arness "The Thing" movie where he is the vegetable from outer space. Sometimes I think the actors winged it. The graphics were great. You could tell they were graphics and did not have to guess wither it was real or Memorex. And have you ever seen a movie where they said Chiroptera with a straight face. Was she that Egyptian Pharaoh with Anthony? What do you want from this movie? "BLOOD?"
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Summary: A bigtime disappointment
Review: I wanted to see "Bats" as soon as I saw the previews over a year ago and I finally got to see it awhile ago. It wasn't anything like what I thought it would be. I was expecting it to be a good horror movie with great special effects. "Bats" turned out to be the worst horror movie I've seen in a long time. A new breed of bat that was created by a man is terrorizing a small town in Texas. The bats kill everybody they see, so it's up to a wildlife zoologist (Dina Meyer) and a sheriff (Lou Diamond Phillips) to try and get rid of the bats before it's too late. "Bats" might have had better success a few years ago, but with the great horror movies that have been made lately, "Bats" just can't stand up to them. Sometimes the camera in the movie just goes in circles to where you can't see anything. There's not much plot to the movie other than to get rid of the bats. Finally, "Bats" was made in 1999. It's pretty bad when a movie made in the late 90's doesn't even have good special effects. The only thing that I did like about the movie was that the bats looked pretty cool. Some people might like "Bats," but for me, it just wasn't what I was expecting it to be. Therefore, unless you really really want to see it, I wouldn't recommend watching it.
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Summary: Hmm
Review: It should have been a decent B-grade horror movie. Unfortunately it does not even reach that far. It has an insane premise, no good dialog and even the special effects do not save this sheer waste.
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Summary: BAD AT EVERYTHING!
Review: This is without a doubt putting ALL of the films even On Streaight to Video movies. This is by far the Worst film of 1999! the acting is horrorble, the premis is totally unorginal. the whole movie is Unorginal. Copys from just about all the blockbuster hits. ahhh horrorble movie, not even worth renting as far as I'm concered. frnakly I saw this in theaters. and it Wasn't worth the time. but I think amatures leave films.. I'm no amature so I didn't leave the film. fact is, if there was any film I would ahve walked out of that year. it would without a doubt be that one. One thing thats even worser is the fact they are ACTULLY planning Bats 2 now. It doesn't diserve a Sequel. and the cast didn't even deserve to be paid for this film.
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Summary: Dumb but Good, Fun, Entertaining Ride.
Review: Bats is a simple plot with familiar movies from before.
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Summary: A Horror Story?
Review: In terms of special effects the bats were pretty good but looking at the cadavers of the first victims left a lot to be believed. In this day and age you'd expect the special effects to be much better. Did they have a limited budget? For movies like these, you watch them for the special effects as much as the scare value but how scary can the story be if you find yourself chuckling at the effects? Watch it if you don't mind a predictable storyline.
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