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This movie is for everyone who misses the old Roger Corman monster movies, only it has animatronics and computer effects instead of papiermâché. The title of Bats pretty much sums up the plot: Crazed bats are running amok, disemboweling people and cattle. Only beautiful wildlife zoologist Dina Meyer (Johnny Mnemonic, Starship Troopers) and stalwart sheriff Lou Diamond Phillips (La Bamba, the Young Guns movies, Courage Under Fire) can save the day! Let's be frank: The scenario is ludicrous, the dialogue God-awful, the special effects unconvincing--try as they might, the bats just aren't that scary--but what does it matter? The movie rips along effectively. There's always a bat attack just around the corner and the director makes liberal use of all kinds of editing and camera effects, including a distorted bat-cam point of view that makes no sense at all but is pretty entertaining. Various scenes imitate Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, but lack even a hint of that movie's eerie precision. The actors play it straight without trying to be particularly serious. All in all, Bats knows what it is--trash-horror--and accomplishes its ends with good humor. Not quite up to the standard of Tremors (still the definitive trash-horror flick), but better than most recent efforts. --Bret Fetzer
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - waste
This movie is truly a waste of time and money. You have better things to do than watch this drivel. My college buddy offered to buy my way into this film when I was hungover. It made me more sick and him less rich. The crappy effects, dialogue and camera angles are ridiculous. They didn't even try or care and I'm not sure how it made it to the big screen. This probably ruined Lou Diamond Phillips' career. If you like watching bad movies because they're bad then watch this one. But if you ... Read More
Rating:  - They drop the ball on this film. It could be so much more.
Some B films are great and they have a cult following, but this B film will never have a cult following in latter years to come, because this film lacks a good plot. Every film need a good plot story or it will become a mess.
This film has got a weak plot story, but it not mess and it not scary-suspense action movie. It just scary looking bats killing people action movie.
If you people who saw this film and think this film is a scary-suspense action movie, you all are ... Read More
Rating:  - Inflight moviemaking from the writer of The Aviator
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 ... Read More
Rating: - low-brow and predictable
Well, it looks as though anyone who gives this movie a bad rating is bound to get a bunch of unhelpful votes, but the fact of the matter is that Bats is a bad movie. It's the type of movie that's been made umpteen times before: there's some major crisis, a rag-tag group sets out to solve the crisis (often in defiance of inept authorities), but with all the odds stacked against them it looks mighty certain that they're going to fail, but just in the nick of time they pull it off. In short, this is ... Read More
Rating:  - i'm shocked at how low the movie is rated from other reviews
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.
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