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Bugs (2003) Movie Poster
  •  Canada / USA  •    •  82m  •    •  Directed by: Joseph Conti.  •  Starring: Antonio Sabato Jr., Angie Everhart, R.H. Thomson, Karl Pruner, Duane Murray, Romano Orzari, Stephanie Moore, Wes Williams, Xuan Fraser, Lynne Griffin, Tim Post, Elias Zarou, Nigel Hamer.  •  Music by: William T. Stromberg.
        A new subway tunnel is being built which goes deeper underground than any other in the world and will provide the fastest way possible to travel. However the construction work has awoken a nest of giant prehistoric insects which proceed to break free and begin to kill anyone who goes down there. An FBI officer and a SWAT unit is sent down there to stop the bugs from escaping into the city.

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A subway tunnel under construction, unearths metre-long scorpion-like bugs who awake from their centuries old hibernation with a voracious appetite for human flesh. After a police officer is all but consumed (save for the graphically depicted dismembered torso), FBI agent and eminent entomologist lead a SWAT team into the tunnel to contain and destroy the bugs, with disastrous results.

Economically paced with rapid momentum and frequent thrills, this made for TV action-thriller features a high-fatality rate, gory special effects and a couple of reasonable characterisations in the supporting ranks. Antonio Sabato, Jnr and Angie Everhart while initially looking overly alarmed, manage to tone it down as the film progresses. R.H. Thomson's performance as an easy-going engineer trying to right the wrongs of his megalomaniacal boss, seems (for a while) to only be capable of doom-saying and introducing myriad obstacles to the mission. But, as the story nears its climax, Thomson redeems his somewhat shady involvement, and closes the film with an unselfish act of heroism.

Constrained by the obvious made-for-TV budget, the insect special effects are sometimes hokum, but the visual effects department spares no body part in depicting gory mutilations, with enough claret spilled to run a blood bank for an eternity. Some credit must go to director Joseph Conti, who, as the credits display, seemed to have a hand in most of the executive roles. His tight, frenetically paced direction maintains a lively and energetic pace that ensures "Bugs" never labours like most of the subway cars do in the film.


Review by Chris. from the Internet Movie Database.