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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Beanbioca As Good As It Gets
Curapedi I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.
Rosie Searle It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.
Logan By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.
Adam Almerud SPOILER ALERTS!This movie made the reason for me going online and register an account at IMDb.com. The movie is an insult to what it could have been. It is stated in earlier dialogs of other reviewers that it was a bad attempt on trying to create a somewhat different story comparing to the Alien franchise.Plot: Requires more actually originality, more story, not simply jump into the main problem without really introducing us to its characters. You know the ones that are suppose to "action" the story forward. They state a cliché problem, "there is something alien in the dark and the question is will we be able to stop it?" Enough said!Characters: Are just briefly described with stereotypes. Really, nothing more.Special Effects: Apart from the blood literally standing out as an fountain out of the victims, looking like ketchup, it is watchable (like an 90s epilogue to an animated game trailer).
TheLittleSongbird When I hear SyFy originals popping up, I immediately think cheap and bad. Bugs is surprisingly one of their more watchable efforts. Of course there are flaws, while SyFy have definitely done worse the bugs do look rather crude in design, the script could have done with more flow and less cheese, the characters are stereotypical and some elements of the story are derivative. However, the scenery is cool and atmospheric, and the editing is much more focused than it has been, usually I find it hackneyed. The gore is not too cheap and quite fun in their usage and the attacks do at least have suspense and a sense of terror. Bugs features one of the better directorial jobs for a SyFy movie, it is flashy and crisply paced in alternative to the sluggish and almost non-existent direction I've encountered before, and the story doesn't make the mistake of being dull and is more interesting and less predictable than it sounds. The acting is decent, nobody stands out as such but nobody is mind-numbingly bad either. Overall, has its debits but compared to the usual SyFy original movie fodder it is not half bad. 6/10 Bethany Cox
henri sauvage I believe one day film historians will look back on this as the era in which Hollywood forgot how to make an entertaining low budget creature feature, for which the blame will be laid squarely on the shoulders of The Channel Formerly Known as Sci-Fi.And the prime exhibit will be this piece of dreck. Literally no stone is left unturned in its relentless quest to claim the dishonor of being the most inept, boring "Aliens" rip-off ever to come scuttling down the pike. You'd think the concept of monster bugs running amok in a half-completed subway project could provide all sorts of opportunities for claustrophobic chills and thrills -- but you'd be wrong, so very, very wrong.Even by TCFKaSF standards, this is dull stuff. And for all you sick puppies who could care less about inconsequentials like direction, cinematography, dialog, acting or plot, so long as there's lots of gore -- well, there's not that much, and it's not that well done, either.Let's put it this way: This film is so bad, even my local used DVD store wouldn't take it.
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.