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		MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Media: DVD

Editorial Review:
This movie is for everyone who misses the old Roger Corman monster movies, only it has animatronics and computer effects instead of papiermâché. The title of Bats pretty much sums up the plot: Crazed bats are running amok, disemboweling people and cattle. Only beautiful wildlife zoologist Dina Meyer (Johnny Mnemonic, Starship Troopers) and stalwart sheriff Lou Diamond Phillips (La Bamba, the Young Guns movies, Courage Under Fire) can save the day! Let's be frank: The scenario is ludicrous, the dialogue God-awful, the special effects unconvincing--try as they might, the bats just aren't that scary--but what does it matter? The movie rips along effectively. There's always a bat attack just around the corner and the director makes liberal use of all kinds of editing and camera effects, including a distorted bat-cam point of view that makes no sense at all but is pretty entertaining. Various scenes imitate Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, but lack even a hint of that movie's eerie precision. The actors play it straight without trying to be particularly serious. All in all, Bats knows what it is--trash-horror--and accomplishes its ends with good humor. Not quite up to the standard of Tremors (still the definitive trash-horror flick), but better than most recent efforts. --Bret Fetzer

Bats [Region 2] Reviews:
A cult classic from the late 90's? Yup. It is.
2009-11-15 - One of the few cult classic films to come out of the 90's. Well, this and "Showgirls". I can't believe more people haven't found this movie yet. Whenever I'm talking about movies with people I always bring up "Bats". Lou Diamond is the man in this. He carries the picture all by himself. Luckily for me there is a good cast around him. I don't understand people getting mad at this movie. Ok, fine. I see where their coming from. But this has all the stuff all the other great creature films have had over the years. Good cop. Beautiful scientist. Mad Doctor that creates the creatures. And, a town getting attacked by said creature. This has got it all. I for one love this movie. I think I'm gonna watch this again tonight. If you like animal attack movies, you should find something to like in this.

"STAB" is what i wanted to do after watching this peice of crap
2009-09-17 - Let's just come out and say it, this movie is very not good. Not a single thing at all makes it a good movie. The acting is terrible and the effects are worse. The story takes the prize for being the most awful aspect of the production. It has every single cliché possible in a horror type movie film. I won't expressively list any but just think of one and I guarantee you will hear it in there (if you can make it through the entire thing). Lou Diamond Phillips shoots at the bats with a revolver and is hitting them with ease. It is things like these that make the movie so unbelievable. Which does not necessarily mean a poor picture; it is that the movie takes its self too seriously. Films like Tremors just have that ridiculousness to them that makes them fun. "STAB" does not have that. It is a chore to sit through the entire thing. This is a Sci-Fi (SyFy) channel Saturday afternoon garbage movie at best. And I'm not even a good critic, I thought Doom was good. Nobody liked Doom. The only reason I bought it is because a bat got into my girlfriend's apartment and we both thought that everything bat related was funny. Sadly we were wrong. I figured out that buying a copy was actually cheaper than renting it. I am not going to make your decision for you, so do whatever you want. Now you can't say that I didn't warn you.

Lou Diamond! Save us all from the flying rodents!
2009-01-16 - Bats (1999) Lock up the belfry for this particular offering. Let's start with the title. Four letters that tell you all you need to know. No "Kingdom of the." No "Earth vs the." Just Bats. A nice, direct title for an equally complexity-free film.
When two genetically enhanced superintelligent mutant killer bats escape scientific custody and begin infecting Texas' normal bat population, it's up to small town sheriff Lou Diamond Phillips and "batologist" Dina Meyer to save the day. If they fail, the infected critters will migrate all over North America, spreading death and destruction everywhere they go.
Aiding our heroic duo are the requisite stock characters for this kind of movie: the Sardonic African American Guy (Leon) who provides necessary comic relief with his stream of sarcastic comments; and the Crazy Scientist Guy (Bob Gunton) who started the whole mess in the name of science.
As these things go, this is a serviceable thriller. The bats attack with adequate frequency, and the characters fulfill their scripted functions, and are performed earnestly by the actors. The effects are efficient, though unremarkable. In the olden days, a movie bat was pretty much always a rubber specimen on a variably visible string. The really high tech ones were windup and had flapping wings that went "chaka-chaka-chaka." Nowadays a mix of digital effects and animatronics brings them to life.
The last Big Screen bat movie was 1979's Nightwing, with Nick Mancuso and David Warner battling the winged menaces. Both films obviously owe a lot to Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, but Bats has an equally strong inspiration in 1990's Arachnophobia, which had one large spider mating with a common house spider, producing scads of deadly poisonous little arachnids.
There are, of course, the expected plot holes. For example, a mine features prominently in the movie's plot. But it is never made clear just what kind of mine it is. A coal mine? A silver mine? A diamond mine? A gold mine? It's not dreadfully important, but is the kind of detail that spells out "sloppy screenwriting" when it's not provided. As a sidenote, Phillips assures his costars numerous times that there is only one entrance (and one entrance only) to this mine. But all mines that I have heard of always have a separate shaft to provide air circulation. Things that make you go `hmm.'
To wrap this up--Bats is a competently made, but not very involving PG-13 thriller that is probably best as a scary treat for teens or older children.

waste
2009-01-06 - This movie is truly a waste of time and money. You have better things to do than watch this drivel. My college buddy offered to buy my way into this film when I was hungover. It made me more sick and him less rich. The crappy effects, dialogue and camera angles are ridiculous. They didn't even try or care and I'm not sure how it made it to the big screen. This probably ruined Lou Diamond Phillips' career. If you like watching bad movies because they're bad then watch this one. But if you have any sense of intelligence, you'd pass.

They drop the ball on this film. It could be so much more.
2006-03-31 - Some B films are great and they have a cult following, but this B film will never have a cult following in latter years to come, because this film lacks a good plot. Every film need a good plot story or it will become a mess.

This film has got a weak plot story, but it not mess and it not scary-suspense action movie. It just scary looking bats killing people action movie.

If you people who saw this film and think this film is a scary-suspense action movie, you all are out of your minds.

If you people want to see a good scary-suspense action movie with a good story plot, see JAWS.

This film is not bad and it not good. You people should see this film only once on cable and never see it again.