I watched this movie on the Sci-Fi channel last night, as I was channel surfing. The movie started without explaining much: the characters, why they were there, where exactly they at, etc. To me, that usually means I'm in for a bad movie experience. I was half right.
There were moments in this movie where it pained me to watch, not out of fright of the spiders, but just fright from the horrible acting. There was almost no emotion during moments where there should have been strong emotion. The doctor, however, did an okay job. I won't bash him.
In a spider movie, I am looking for good graphics, or at least real spiders. This movie had a mixture. There were close-ups of real spiders that were pretty creepy; even though the spiders all kind of looked the same. Then there were also the spiders falling from the ceiling that looked so fake I almost laughed out loud. But then they would shoot to a real spider again, thus redeeming themselves for the moment.
-SPOILER- The movie wouldn't have been that bad for me, honestly, even with the bad acting and bad spider graphics, if they had not added the "plot twist." To top off the spiders killing the villagers and the tourists, the doctor of the tribe had to be part of a black market organ stealing scheme. He used the venom of the spiders to paralyze the victims then cut them open and steal their organs, the venom also kept the organs fresh longer. I about peed myself when I found out what the whole movie was all about.
I may have bashed this movie, but I'm also just picky. It's worth watching when it's free on television. It's not a complete waste of time, just don't rent it.
There were moments in this movie where it pained me to watch, not out of fright of the spiders, but just fright from the horrible acting. There was almost no emotion during moments where there should have been strong emotion. The doctor, however, did an okay job. I won't bash him.
In a spider movie, I am looking for good graphics, or at least real spiders. This movie had a mixture. There were close-ups of real spiders that were pretty creepy; even though the spiders all kind of looked the same. Then there were also the spiders falling from the ceiling that looked so fake I almost laughed out loud. But then they would shoot to a real spider again, thus redeeming themselves for the moment.
-SPOILER- The movie wouldn't have been that bad for me, honestly, even with the bad acting and bad spider graphics, if they had not added the "plot twist." To top off the spiders killing the villagers and the tourists, the doctor of the tribe had to be part of a black market organ stealing scheme. He used the venom of the spiders to paralyze the victims then cut them open and steal their organs, the venom also kept the organs fresh longer. I about peed myself when I found out what the whole movie was all about.
I may have bashed this movie, but I'm also just picky. It's worth watching when it's free on television. It's not a complete waste of time, just don't rent it.