Plantiana Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

ThiefHott Too much of everything

Platicsco Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

CYBERNET-1 OK so a 10 for a 2 1/2 star movie you ask?...well see this one and maybe it will make more sense.. Hitchcock never blended scenes together better....The film weaves scenes together flawlessly from the start and yet you don't get that scattered feeling you sometimes get when a movie runs you through the many characters it attempts to develop. You sense that the characters will show you something unusual about themselves and then they don't disappoint you when they do. Screenwriter/Producer Phil Hay's surreal tale of life, blended with an absolutely superb soundtrack makes you think more about the 6 degrees of separation in life than the movie by the same title...I will be looking for more good things from this producer in the future.

tedg Spoilers herein.I have a particular fondness for films that spread out over many plots and characters. There are all sorts of reasons to do so. Scoping out why one would do this and figuring why it works if it does is a sweet pleasure. Often (not here) the stories include stories about just such figuring.One reason to spread the story is simply because you can and that you can make the mechanics of passing the thing we watch. In its time, `Nashville,' then `Short Cuts' was shocking just because they had short cuts. We noticed the varieties and switching more than the episodes themselves.`Bug' follows that tradition but these days you have to really emphasize the transitions because we have gotten so used sliced and diced narrative. So we have this Rube Goldbergian machine that is itself the focus of this project. Life is as much a matter of passing energy as it is at stewarding. Okay as an idea, but after an hour, the novelty doesn't grab us any more.Ted's Evaluation -- 1 of 3: You can find something better to do with this part of your life.

George Parker "Bug" starts with a kid squishing a bug and from there launches into chain reactions which affect the lives of a handful of people. A budget conscious indie with a so-so cast and obvious cost cutters throughout, "Bug" doesn't manage to accomplish much beyond its novel approach to story telling. In the heap of "common denominator" flix which seem to be "All the Rage" from the hit "Magnolia" with crisscrossing subplots to the mutual friend drama "Love in a Time of Money", "Bug" is at the bottom. Mediocre stuff best saved for as a boredom-breaker broadcast watch. (C)

untrusted I just watched this movie on Showtime. Quite by accident actually. If I wouldn't have only had 6 hrs of sleep for the past two days then I wouldn't have came home early from work. If I hadn't came home early from work I wouldn't have seen this movie. I wouldn't have known what I was missing, but I would've missed a lot.That's the way this movie is. It's almost playing on the Kevin Bacon effect. That and causality (hence my verbiage above). Ever character is intertwined in some way or another. Action, reaction, interaction, non-interaction. This movie is just wonderful. I'm going to have to find a copy to buy.