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Beanbioca As Good As It Gets

Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

atinder I seen this movie a number of time now, first time two times , when came on TV about 10 years ago, I really enjoyed it back thenIt's was not as good as remember it but I didn't found the movie well paced, it dose not take long at all before the Rats start to attack people.About the middle part of the movie is gets little calm but more rats start to attack again and I really liked scenes on Train, The rats covered the whole train , was really cool scenes.The attack scenes were not to bad or that great. they went not to bloody but first attack was good a bit bloody at the start. as movies goes on the attacks scenes seem less bloody but a lot rats on the person getting attacked.The acting was really good from the cast in this movie.Decent Killer rat movie6 out of 10

sol1218 **SPOILERS** Skin crawling horror flick involving genetically altered mutant rats who, when excited, rampage through the subways and sewers of New York City devouring any and everything that happens to get in their way.These "cute" and "cuddly" little critters come on the scene in of all places the upscale and swanky Garsons Department Store where the rich and famous do their shopping. The mystery of way these hoards of infected, with Weils Disease, and flesh eating rodents choose Garsons is later found out by the store's manager's Susan Costello, Madchen Amick, 12 year-old daughter Amy, Daveigh Chase, That happens late in the movie. Which by that time the rats were coming out of their underground hideouts-by the millions-to do battle with the entire population of NYC!It's up to ace exterminator Jack Carver, Vincent Spano, and his rat a**-kicking sidekick Ty, Shawn Michael Howard,to not only find where these rats are hiding but to zap them, with explosives and state of the art rat poison, before they by breeding with the much meeker and less aggressive local city rats create a rat army of over 100 million giant mutant rodents. In no time at all this giant rat army will not only overrun the Big Apple but end up killing, with the deadly Weils Disease, half of the US population; Like they did back in Europe in the 14th century by spreading the Black Plague!***SPOILERS*** As you would have expected it's the top city leaders like Health Department's head Ray Jarrett, David Wolos Fonteno, who do more to have the mutant and killer rats getting out of control then anybody else. Jarrett doesn't want the public to be alarmed by the thought that millions upon millions of killer rats are secretly breeding right under their feet in the NY Subway System and are about to explode and overrun the city. This insane reason by Jarrett gives the rats every opportunity, in not being hunted down and killed by Carver & Ty, to do exactly what the not too on the ball Jarrett is in fact trying to prevent them from doing!Ferocious and gut-spilling final with the rats spilling into the city's underground subway system and terrorizing the unsuspecting strap-hangers to the point where more people end up dying from strokes and heart attacks then from the rats themselves! Carver realizing what's turning the rats on, something that's sold at Garsons Department Store, lays a trap for them at the midtown Recreation Center's massive Olympic size swimming pool. The far too shocking, for those of us in the audience with weak stomachs, and mind blowing ending has to be seen to be believed! With the rats, now numbering ten times more then the entire NYC population, spilling into the recreation's swimming pool with the added attraction of Susan, who accidentally sipped into the pool, being swarmed all over by them! This makes Carver plan in blasting the rats to kingdom come, with Susan's life in danger of being blasted along with them, that much more difficult!P.S The made for TV movie "The Rats" was to be broadcast on the evening of Tuesday September 11, 2001 on FOX TV Network. By then people had a lot more on their minds then rats and rodents which was why the film was rescheduled for a later, and less stressful, date.

Madolyn Griffith (maddymoo) As someone who has kept rats as pets and knows what wonderful companions they can be, I am usually disappointed by the way they are portrayed on the screen. Yes, this is a somewhat silly movie, but on the whole it worked very well and my perpetual ratty craving was well-satisfied with so many closeups of sleek, well-fed rodents.I was delighted to see Mädchen Amick in this film - recognising her name from 'Twin Peaks' but not immediately being able to remember her character. She looks fantastic and it made me realise just how young she was when she played Shelly Johnson.I was also delighted with the CGI, particularly for the "fountains of rats" scene at the empty pool. Yes, it was silly, and we did laugh, but all those pretend rats actually looked real, not like static cut-outs pasted over and over, and not like the typical joke-store rubber effigies either. As for the scenes with real rats, they were beautifully done, especially the closeups.I'm pretty demanding when it comes to CGI and animatronics, particularly for animals. I'm critical of angles, texture and lighting, and many films have been spoiled (imo) by their too-glossy critters which just can't be taken seriously in the context of their roles. I remember being astonished after seeing 'Congo' when it came out - I hadn't been able to pick the fake apes and that's something that I usually do pretty much automatically (having spent some hands-on time with chimpanzees in my childhood and being generally obsessive on the subject). I can pick a person in a monkey suit nine times out of ten, but 'Congo' was the first time I didn't realise I was seeing CGI, and I was hugely impressed.So, any film that can utilise large numbers of animals and make them realistic... even if you know they have to be CGI... and when those animals are one of the handful of species that I know well enough to tell the difference between the real deal and a mockup... that film gets a big thumbs-up regardless of how silly or painful the rest of it is. In other words, if it weren't for the wonderful proliferation of credible rats in this movie I would have given it a 7, which in my system means "liked it well enough but wasn't anything special". Without Mädchen Amick it might even have been a 6.

Coventry It's amazing what you can achieve if you dispose over a bit of professionalism. Even the most routine straight-to-cable production can be worth watching if the acting and directing is a little decent. It was the Fox Network that hired John Lafia (Man's Best Friend) to do the directing and the still yummy Mädchen Amick for the female lead. Vincent Spano (Alive) and Daveigh Chase (The Ring) complete the above average cast. The premise of a giant rat-plague threatening a big city isn't exactly new, but still this film succeeds in bringing a bit of tension and entertainment. Mostly thanks to the excellent underground shooting locations (basements, sewers, subways…) 'the Rats' looks icky and a bit unsettling. The rats naturally are slightly mutated by lab-tests and therefore a lot more aggressive and more difficult to annihilate. The grotesque finale in which a swimming pool is used as a rat-fountain is very over-the-top, yet brightly and well elaborated. Mädchen Amick is a seriously underrated actress and I hope she'll receive some new, bigger acting offers real soon. Vincent Spano is pretty good as well and he clearly enjoys sharing rat-trivia with the viewer. I don't know if all what he said is true (for every inhabitant in NY there are 9 rats?? You can get Weil's disease from a rat-bite??) but it was interesting nevertheless. Recommended!