BUG is a truly awful film.
The "story" is a about a scientist who studies some underground bugs who turn up after an earthquake opens a small fissure in the desert. The scientist studies them and realizes that they're intelligent and can also burn people. A few (and I really mean a "few") people fall victim to these bugs. When a "queen" ends up in the fissure, the bugs start flying, burns the scientist who conveniently ends up in the fissure, which subsequently gets covered up again, leaving no trace of the bugs behind. That's it.
It spends a slow 99 minutes to expand on a not so complex story (one man vs big pyro-cockroaches) and then effectively doesn't go anywhere with a climax that kills its only main character and the potentially cool idea of killer incendiary bugs. You basically spend 99 minutes with a single unlikeable character, in a grubby surrounding along with some not too convincing insects, all for nothing. Not scary, not suspenseful, not fascinating in any way, shape or form.
Had this been a 30 minutes Twilight Zone episode, it would have been fine but for a feature film, it's painfully flat and dreadful. I can barely describe it as a movie. It's a micro-movie.
If you want to see a fantastic "man vs bug" story, check out PHASE IV. Now that's a brilliant movie to be reckon with.
The "story" is a about a scientist who studies some underground bugs who turn up after an earthquake opens a small fissure in the desert. The scientist studies them and realizes that they're intelligent and can also burn people. A few (and I really mean a "few") people fall victim to these bugs. When a "queen" ends up in the fissure, the bugs start flying, burns the scientist who conveniently ends up in the fissure, which subsequently gets covered up again, leaving no trace of the bugs behind. That's it.
It spends a slow 99 minutes to expand on a not so complex story (one man vs big pyro-cockroaches) and then effectively doesn't go anywhere with a climax that kills its only main character and the potentially cool idea of killer incendiary bugs. You basically spend 99 minutes with a single unlikeable character, in a grubby surrounding along with some not too convincing insects, all for nothing. Not scary, not suspenseful, not fascinating in any way, shape or form.
Had this been a 30 minutes Twilight Zone episode, it would have been fine but for a feature film, it's painfully flat and dreadful. I can barely describe it as a movie. It's a micro-movie.
If you want to see a fantastic "man vs bug" story, check out PHASE IV. Now that's a brilliant movie to be reckon with.