Bugs

2003 "They're dealing with the unknown. The unknown must be destroyed"
3.8| 1h22m| en
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A cop on the track of a criminal finds himself in the midst of an unfinished subway tunnel, when his flashlight reveals a startling discovery: a three meter long scorpion-like Bug. With one slice of its massive tail the bug fells the man and devours him. FBI agent Matt Pollack is brought in to investigate, and when forensics reveal the source of the problem, he turns to his friend and entomologist Emily Foster for help.

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Btexxamar I like Black Panther, but I didn't like this movie.
Ketrivie It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.
ChanFamous I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.
filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.
davidthomas-4 I think this was a very good movie even if it was short. The plot was a bit predictable as the main hero and the main heroine would be the only ones to survive in the mission to wipe out of the killer bugs in the subway. I like the CG effects of the movie and for it's time it stands out and I like all of the scenes where there was gore and I felt sorry for all of the soldiers/police whatever they were that tried to kill the insects. Bergstein, Manning, Benton, Reynolds but the one who I really felt sorry for was Garcia because he was the one who suffered the most physical and psychological damage. They were all good hearted people who fought very hard to destroy all of the nasty bastard scorpions.A good film none-the-less and I advice for many people to watch it.
Jack We start out with a tunnel being built under a mountain, a train is going to run through it, drastically reducing travel time from point A to point B. The tunnel is half done, and a group of dignitaries rides the first train out to the midpoint, as the company honchos hit them up for more money. But they're attacked by some sort of unseen critters, ripped to shreds! It's actually quite nicely done.Next, cut to the folks who are going to investigate this mysterious slaughter. They contact the guy who's in charge of engineering the tunnel, and unlike the folks in just about every other crappy B-movie, he's actually an intelligent, helpful person who just wants to get this thing figured out so they can finish the tunnel. So these folks, along with a group of military guys and gals, get in an armored train and go into the tunnels, where they find giant bugs.What makes this so much better than the average B-movie is that the characters are quite well done: fairly likable, they act in a logical manner and don't spend the whole time fighting with each other. What a startling break with cliché! The atmosphere in the tunnel is also done really well, you get a sense of claustrophobia as they're all trapped with the bugs, walking down hallways with lots of dark corners, etc. They set up an electric fence to keep the bugs at bay, and it's actually fairly believable as the bugs keep testing the fence and the military folks tensely stand by with machine guns at the ready.Towards the end you get the usual big battle with the head bug; the special effects are cheesy but okay. Overall, this is a decidedly above average low budget affair, one of my favorites. Much better than other higher budget affairs like "Relic".
rbunnell Don't dismiss this one out of hand. Sure, it's not top drawer in the giant-insect-threat-to-humanity genre. But let's not be unfair, considering the slot it's aiming for. I don't think you should judge a film of this type as if it could make it as a first-run film in movie theaters. This is a TV Sci-Fi channel entertainment. I thought the effects were pretty darn good, and the first 15 to 20 minutes set up the movie with surprising style. When the subway car that had all the rich dignitaries rolls into the station after suffering a major attack--that's a great scene with real visual flair. Folks, what do we really want in one of these? A lot of giant insects, a troop of rough and ready combat types that all get picked off over time without doing really, really stupid things, the tiresome polluter-real estate tycoon-arrogant scientist getting his just deserts at the end, and a couple brave and true folk surviving. Give this one a chance!
CelluloiDiva Of course, if you saw that dreadfully histrionic earthquake disaster of an NBC movie last month, you know exactly what I mean! It's become my new standard for rating truly bad, unbelievably cheesy movies. The SciFi Channel's "Bugs" ranks right up there - or should we say it is merely rank?With movies like this, it is almost as if the plot (such as it is) exists only for the sole purpose of tying together bombastic action sequences. In the case of "Bugs" the "action" wasn't enough to justify the convoluted story line. How many times did they recycle that same clip of the critters racketing down the rails towards the train? How is it in movies like this that the scientist always has some expertise that takes substantial time, if not decades, to acquire, but looks younger than most women in Oil of Olay ads? How is that credible? Naturally, the purpose of such diversions isn't so much credibility, but good, clean entertainment for a few hours...oh, and exposure to the ads of the sponsors."Bugs" was utterly predictable, right down to the miserable end of Reynolds - when he picked up the pistol at the end of the movie, you just knew what was coming next. We had a ball picking out inconsistencies, predicting who was gonna get it next and laughing over the ridiculously cheesy effects. I'll give it a solid Stilton on the CelluloiDiva Cheese-Meter and recommend for a night when you want to hold a "MST-it-yourself" party at home.