Bugs

Another day, another made for TV movie on demand. And if yesterday’s 23 Days of Fear was surprisingly impressive, todays “Bugs” wasn’t. The premise of oversized bugs being woken from 65 millions years of sleep by a money hungry developer digging a tunnel in itself is cheese on toast, but it wasnt that which was a problem. The acting was. Now I like cheese. Im a big disaster movie fan, and what could be cheesier? But when cheesy acting crosses the line into porn star performance, weve got a problem. The lead actor, Antonio Sabato Jr. is about as porn star wooden as you can get. Developer meglomaniac Karl Pruner is just as bad. But the problems go deeper. The writer has taken every cheesy line from every film trailer ever. “We’ve got company!” is yelled 65 million times, “Its there I can feel it”, “Im going to stay here and keep an eye out for my new friend” are just a few lines from a whole battery of cliched moments which have been ripped from the whole Alien series in an attempt to make this credible. Combine all this and you have one big old pile of formulaic corny cheese. Which is actually a shame as the effects and the rest of production are all pretty good. An entertaining way to pass an hour or so I guess, but leave your brain, and memory of other films elsewhere.