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Bats

Where do you hide when the dark is alive?

1999 · 1h 31m · PG-13 Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller
Directed by Louis Morneau

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Overview

Genetically mutated bats escape and it's up to a bat expert and the local sheriff to stop them.

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Critics on Rotten Tomatoes

Top critics, in their words

All reviews
17%
Tomatometer
Rotten

This bad-scientist movie about bats that attack humans and the humans who track them -- Texas sheriff Lou Diamond Phillips and zoologist Dina Meyer -- is played straight, though it wasn't intended to be taken that way.

Lisa Alspector, Chicago Reader
Rotten

A movie that's too unintentionally funny to be scary.

Christy Lemire, Associated Press
Fresh

A vigorously paced and surprisingly satisfying piece of work.

Joe Leydon, Variety
Rotten

The bat attacks are a series of violent camera pans rendering everything a blur; the continuity and computer-generated imagery is dire; and the dialogue stinks, as do the performances.

Derek Adams, Time Out
Fresh

It's no knockout, but it's fun and gets the job done in a nonmalicious way, which more of today's punishing filmmakers should emulate.

Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle

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