It was a truly bad movie, but the premise? Develop flesh eating Locust to
kill bugs that are harmful to agriculture? You won't need them to eat
bugs after they kill off everyone. Sort of like using Arsenic to cure cancer.
you don't need to worry about having cancer anymore.
yeah it was bad, but could have been much worse
I give it a 3When there's no more room in hell, The dead will walk the earth...
I gave it a 4 because of the actually pretty good twist(it won't work for other movies, but for this movie it was way clever). And they were frankly trying to give environmental messages... but with poor CGI.
Not scary, scary movie, deserves 1 actually, but the Julie Benz factor...
OK, with a willing suspension of disbelief, I can buy that someone would think that bioengineering wicked-ugly locusts to protect the food supply would be a cool idea. Well, actually, locusts are mostly famous for eating every plant in sight, I would think that those researchers would have started with something that, oh, IDK, gosh, um, how about... eats insects to begin with? OK, nevermind, I'll buy that premise anyway.
Furthermore, with the same degree of willing suspension of disbelief, I can buy that said insects would start eating humans because pesicides to them are like sugar to an Edgar-bug, and we humans in the Western industrial world have been eating pesticide-loaded food for so long that our bodies are just saturated with the stuff, and so, said insects look at us the same way we look at sugar-coated doughnuts. Wait, you say, it doesn't work that way, and pesticide build-up in the human body is minimal? OK, nevermind that one, too, I'll still go along with the movie on this one.
But you know what part of this plot I absolutely, positively cannot accept, no matter how much I turn up my "willing suspension of disbelief" meter? It's the idea that this guy, on a scientist's salary, can afford to eat ALL organic food! Now that's really fantasy!
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"A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five."
I can suspend disbelief, but besides the student-film-quality CGI, what really was hard to take serious was the terrible acting. It was as if some of the actors were reading their lines written just out of camera range. It even appeared at times that certain scenes were spliced together from rehearsal footage!
shareI like the scene where the scientist observes one of the locusts in a hospital lab and says to one of his colleagues that "this is going to get worse before it gets better." Most truthful line in the entire movie.
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