The entire town of Gallup, Texas is under attack from an enormous swarm of the creatures, but Gunton appears to be inconspicuously contemplating something else. I just want my money. The bats are ugly, I must say. There s the occasional moment where they look moderately convincing, but mainly, the swarm is represented in cheesy digital imagery. Only bits of the bloody action even hint at the campy fun the film could have been, but by the absurdly stupid climax, it s way too late in the game for a decent recovery.
Characters experiment in slaughtering the bats with gunfire.
This kind of behavior represents the regular level of intelligence behind Bats . I was a 1999 Canadian Writing Finalist in the YTV Achievement Awards. I've written a published weekly movie column for The StarPhoenix in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada since November 1997.