Bats: Human Harvest

It's called "Bats: Human Harvest", I'm pretty sure I can end the review there. You know it's going to be good for some marginal entertainment, you know it's going to be bad in any other field you can think of. What's up with the special effects in this one? CGI always looks laughable in low-budget movies but Jesus, this is just insane. The acting is universally terrible, but the Scottish chick who tries and completely fails to do a Russian accent ought to receive special mention. The weirdest thing about that though: this movie was shot in the former Soviet state of Bulgaria! How hard is it to find someone with a genuine Russian accent there? The logics behind a B-movie production, I guess I'll never get it. The comic relief scenes look like they've been written by Germans or something, most awful lines ever. Check out the hilarious interplay between the first victims, move over Laurel and Hardy. When a bunch of corpses are found in the forest, one guy reacts: "Who did this? Stalin's ghost?". Even Ed Wood would throw that in his wastebasket. The movie's filled with action though, it's not a total bore. If you can get over the fact that it sucks, you might even have fun with it.

Dull one-note characters with next to no development, unimpressive performances by people who sound like they're simply reading lines, and ludicrous special effects combine to make this a genuine stinker. The story begins with eminently bland commando Russo and his fellow soldiers attacking an Al-Qaeda training base. The scene tells us that Al-Qaeda has recently come to seek an ultimate weapon, and also serves to illustrate Russo's only character trait, a tendency to eschew teamwork. With the help of a collection of blank slates and walking stereotypes, including a Russian spy, Russo travels to Chechnyan territory to catch a mad scientist working for the terrorists. Along the way, they encounter vast hordes of flesh-eating bats that fly in broad daylight for some reason. From there, the movie becomes nothing more than a dragging morass of ridiculous action, including a scene in which a swarm of bats slices a soldier's arm off!

Killer Bats are attacking a group of military soldiers and CIA agents in Chechnya who are seeking out a rogue doctor responsible for the mutant creatures.

We meet a group of Delta Force soldiers who are paired up with a Russian CIA agent named Katya. They are in an Chechnya forest trying to seek out the evil Dr. Walsh who has gone rogue and is hiding dangerous American weapons. While they look for Walsh, they are attacked by genetically enhanced killer bats who seem to want to kill any human in sight. Can they find the doctor who is responsible for all of this? Or will his killer bats finish them off?

The first Bats movie was painfully average, but at least watchable. Bats: Human Harvest is such a dull and non entertaining movie from the Sci-Fi Channel which has put out some real sequel stinkers such as Anaconda 3 and 4. This movie completely ignores the original movie making it a sequel in name only. The acting is terrible with not one redeemable actor or character to be found, just a lot of really bad fake Russian accents by a few of them.

The military theme and storyline in this is extremely dull and didn't need to be a thing when you have a movie about killer Bats. It almost takes away from any tension that could be found from average folks in a small town that aren't trained or equipped to kill. With the military as our main characters, it's just a lot of shooting from people that all act and look alike and that we don't care about.

I give Bats 2 only two stars for it's budget that was able to afford some quality shooting scenes and decent gore from the bat attacks. But overall this sequel is a dud. The biggest problem is that it failed to grab my attention like the first one did. There are no characters developed enough to care for, so all we are left with are CGI bats flying around killing random people. Not entertaining at all.

2/10

This one i think is better than the 3.5 rating the movie gets on here. Although it's nothing like the first one,, i think this one might be able to stand on it's own , had the movie had a bigger budget. The acting wasn't too horribly bad, the location was nice,, the plot takes place in a forest of all places,, a Delta team goes in there to find WMD's, and upon arriving there find these genetically altered bats, that have a taste for human blood, what a great way to keep people out who you don't want find you're WMD's, anyway the mission is to get the Dr. out of there and capture the weapons, or destroy them,, the Delta team has to fight a bunch of Chechyn rebels in Southern Russia in the forest, where of course all of the bats are,, this isn't bad if you're looking for something fun to watch,, but don't expect it to be like the first, or too deep in thought.

On a routine mission in Iraq a group of Delta soldiers recover a computer hard drive from an Alqueda training camp detailing the location of weapons specialist Dr Walsh. After witnessing the termination of his top secret weapons development program Dr Walsh finds an alternative funding source and sets up a new research facility deep in the notorious Belzan forest in Chechnya where he is developing weapons and selling them to Chechnyan rebels.The team of Deltas is sent on a black ops mission to retrieve the doctor and his technology before the Russians find him and his lab.What the Delta team soon discover is that the doctors latest weapons is a flock of large carnivorous bats that have been genetically altered to develop a taste for human flesh. I found this movie to be much better than what I was expecting.There is lots of action and lots of blood. Its more or less what you would expect from a creature feature. The acting isn't great but its passable. I have certainly seen worse.Overall its an enjoyable movie for what it is. A good popcorn movie.