Genetically mutated bats escape, where can you hide?<BR>&nbsp;

Genetically mutated bats escape, where can you hide?

This is a 50`s film transmogrified to the 90`s... Texas desert setting, cigar smoking sheriff - Lou Diamond Phillips, beautiful zoologist specialising in bats - Dina Meyer, laconic off-sider - Leon and evil scientist - Bob Gunton, who`s been experimenting at the Centre for Disease Control, making bats more intelligent, more aggressive, more able to co-operate and... wait for it, omnivorous... a couple escape, or were they helped?, infecting fellow bats. How do the good guys control the outbreak before it takes over Texas, then North America... and then the world... This is possibly the most cliche-ridden film I`ve seen in a long while - some samples from the dialogue - `I`ve never seen anything like this before`, `This isn`t possible, bats feed on seeds and nectar`. Get the idea? A cinema is showing Nosferatu. The sheriff secretly loves opera. There is not a subtle bone in this bats body. And it takes itself seriously. Thanks to screenwriter John Logan who wrote Gladiator and the soon to be seen Any Given Sunday and director Louis Morneau who comes from a background as an assistant and second unit director. But if you choose to view it nostalgically as a blast from the past then you might get some laughs out of it, not all intended by the makers I don`t think.