overrated


I mean, OK- not many comments here, so perhaps not many have seen it, which is great.
But I've seen some reviews saying that this is a great horror flick, which is utter nonsense.

I feel like the actors were fairly decent - and could do a legit drama film, but the horror aspect of it was.... dumb. It's kind of like S. King's 'Kujo' or Hitchcock's 'birds', but at least I can envision dogs kill people - it has happened. Birds also have that capability (only some birds can kill a person one on one, but in great numbers and with right strategies, it can easily be done). As for locust.... they've got nothing. Worse yet, in many segments of the film, the main character of the film is swarmed by these, supposedly, murderous locust, with them biting at her and she is perfectly fine - which makes it rather difficult to explain how they end up killing a few people later on (the act of killing is never shown, by the way).

I mean, you gotto work harder than that to create a plausible story.

Anyways, it's a bullshit film - and I feel like fairly decent actors were wasted here.

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I am going to have to disagree with both the title of your post and assessment of the film.

Firstly, this film is not overrated. There are not that many reviews for this film compared to others in the same genre and time of release. Just because you read a review that runs contrary to your opinion does not mean something is overrated. Nor does disagreeing with certain plot elements mean it’s overrated.

With that out of the way, I don’t see why you think locusts killing people is so world breaking in a horror film about killer locusts. You read the title, and a review of the movie prior to watching it, so you obviously knew what the film was about.

Locusts have been known to devour large swaths of land in a relatively short time. While they don’t attack animals or anything like that, swarms of locusts, in the past and even today, are seen as a sign of death. So the concept of the film is not all that strange.

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think this film is great, and what you said about the locusts selectively eating some people while just nibbling on others is on point. This movie was silly at times, but I thought it was fine and actually had some good characters in it.

Bull%#*t this is not in my opinion. It’s a fine film about killer locusts. Nothing more.

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