Rating of
0.5/4
Run.. Run fast... Far from this movie!
mdtinney - wrote on 11/27/09
This movie is very typical of a horror movie. Unfortunately, unlike some others (such as The Haunting or Dawn of the Dead), Bats has NO redeeming qualities. The plot is typical, and thus predictable. The acting is average, or very poor. You will recognize the dialogue as those same lines repeated time and time again in other movies. You will see the same techniques (not the good ones) used over and over in other movies. The bats look stupid, and the characters do very unintelligent things. The movie even has the "need to start motor - and it won't the first try" scene...which you see coming several light years away.You can predict early on who will die and who will live. The bats or the characters make it obvious when the attack is coming - so no element of surprise exists. What's worse are many of the bat close-ups are filmed in "confuso-vision", and you may find yourself looking away from the screen to avoid becoming motion sick. The great horror movies of yesterday and today make up for a lacking plot and standard techniques by adding "something extra". The director (or screenwriter) of Bats must have been out of ideas. Unless you are an absolute die-hard horror movie fanatic that must see every one ever made, do not see this movie.
