Bats (1999)
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Reviews Counted:41
Fresh:7
Rotten:34
Average Rating:3.3/10
Consensus: Neither scary nor creepy.
Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Synopsis: An unruly gang of genetically altered bats threatens to take over a small western town. Now it's up to a bat expert (Dina Meyer) and the local sheriff (Lou Diamond Phillips from LA BAMBA) to stop... [More]
Starring: Lou Diamond Phillips, Dina Meyer, Bob Gunton, Leon
Director: Louis Morneau
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Reviews for Bats
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 0/4 |
Grade-A hunk of Ed Wood-level cheese. Full Review |
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2/4 |
Once the little beasts start crawling into cars through the exhaust pipes with malevolent intent and dive-bombing people in convenience stores, it's hard not to think of Gremlins. Full Review |
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This bad-scientist movie about bats that attack humans and the humans who track them -- Texas sheriff Lou Diamond Phillips and zoologist Dina Meyer -- is played straight, though it wasn't intended to be taken that way. Full Review |
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A movie that's too unintentionally funny to be scary. Full Review |
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A vigorously paced and surprisingly satisfying piece of work. Full Review |
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1/4 |
yeah, that's what the world needs Full Review |
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The bat attacks are a series of violent camera pans rendering everything a blur; the continuity and computer-generated imagery is dire; and the dialogue stinks, as do the performances. Full Review |
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2/4 |
You really want to like it. It's kind of funny in a simple, old-fashioned kind of way, like the B-movies of old. But it really doesn't have much energy or imagination. Full Review |
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It's no knockout, but it's fun and gets the job done in a nonmalicious way, which more of today's punishing filmmakers should emulate. Full Review |
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Click to read the article. Full Review |
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Bats has nothing to do with baseball or Bela Lugosi. Too bad, because either would be a welcome distraction from this cheesy B-flick about genetically altered man-eating bats. Full Review |
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0/5 |
Having your own house infested with bats would be more welcome.
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1/5 |
Treat yourself to a quality cinematic experience. Go to the theatre and see anything else that's playing. Full Review |
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1.5/5 |
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Bats sticks to the ground rules of its genre and gets through a story at once predictable and preposterous with an ingratiating absence of pretension. Full Review |
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It should provide a welcome fix for many horror film addicts. Full Review |
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3/5 |
The film skillfully mixes in humor (thanks in great part to the straight-faced clichéd phrases and no-nonsense lines delivered by Leon) without undermining the tension. Full Review |
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2/5 |
Now here we go, a resolutely B-movie thriller with delusions of grandeur. Full Review |
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