Review of Larva

I guess I was expecting this to be better than it was, as Vincent Ventresca was quite a good actor in The Invisible Man series he did for sci-fi. But he gives what I would call a rather dull performance here, bringing little life or personality to his character. This is just your run of the mill story of greedy industrialists fiddling with science to create (unintentionally) a killer creature. Actually a bunch of them. They go on the usual rampage, kill the usual nameless bunch of extras, and there's the usual climactic scene involving a large explosion.

Nothing really drew me in to this picture, it was just there, on the screen, running its course. None of the characters made me care about them, though at least they weren't too obnoxious. The whole plot seemed a bit silly - I was left feeling as if the evil industrialists were intentionally trying to kill everybody, which made the whole greed motive seem stupid. It just wasn't very well done in that respect.

The beginning half of the film features some orange-bathed cinematography and good theme music, which gave it quite a nice atmosphere, but that was about it. As soon as the set-up scenes were done and the characters started talking, it got a bit boring.

Overall, it's not a bad movie, nor a good one. Just an overly predictable and uninteresting one.