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Rats (Widescreen)

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THE RATS is the best of the many rat horror films we've been "blessed with."..and mainly because instead of trying to make the rats gigantic or monster like, this movie just used large rats to cause the kind of uneasy panic that we had with JAWS and THE BIRDS. There are some really disturbing scenes with these huge rat infestations, and for a t.v. movie, the CGI effects were done very well. The DVD also includes an "Animal Channel" spot showing how the rats were trained to crawl all over the subway train driver.
Madchen Amick, such a beautiful young lady, and ruggedly handsome Vincent Spano, both do a commendable job and they're highly likeable. The little girl, too, is not your typical "aw, mommy, don't get a new daddy" brat.
And yes, Ms. Amick did come out a winner in the finale, but maybe she wasn't wearing the right kind of cologne?
I liked this movie...it's fun.

When I saw this movie I thought, Oh great, another low bugdet, lameo B-movie, but it turned out to be great Scifi. The acting was great too, but you have to give credit to those rats, and you never know if some science experiment can actually go wrong, especially in a place like New York. Hey ya never know.

When a customer is strangely bitten in Garsons local department store, Susan Costello (highly underrated Madchen Amick) the head of relations, starts to worry. Rats have been overpowering the city in ways people can barely escape surviving the horrific attacks. Rats infest the rec center pool where Susans daughter swims, people have been killed by the little terrors, and the rats seem to be leaving their little presents all over Garsons. With little time left to destroy these Rats from reproducing, Susan calls in Rodent specialist Jack Carver (Vincent Spano) and his assistant Ty to help sort out the mess. As things grow worse and the Rats grow more powerful, they know they must think of a way to destroy them and quick.

The acting was great as I said before. Vincent Spano was good as the Rats expert. Haven't seen him in a while. Madchen Amick was beautiful. For the credit she should get, she's a highly underrated star. This is definetely a movie that would catch your interest. It keeps pace, and even gives you an ominous ending. 5 stars for a great movie.

I rented this on VHS while staying at a friends house (in addition to Crocodile 2: Death Swamp, that one was great, too), and thought it was one the best "creature features" I had seen in a long, long time. THE RATS should've won an award of some kind! Why? Because the storyline is very believable, the actors are Oscar worthy, the rat affects are the most realistic of any beast attack film I've yet to see, it's the best Man vs. Nature tale since ARACHNOPHOBIA, and it's even better than DEEP BLUE SEA!!!!!!!!!!!
5 STARS FOR THE RATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What a movie! Probably 2001's best "genetically enhanced rats attack new york city" movie. Only two words can describe the acting: Oscar worthy. I'd rather wake up to find my room mates crapped in the kitchen sink than miss this film.

Oh, wow. I saw this recently on television and watched it because I thought it would be the worst "rat movie" I've ever seen. Boy, was I wrong! The storyline seems very believable. A few years ago, a science lab made rats stronger and angrier by subjecting them to science tests. The lab shut down, leaving the rats for dead. The rats escaped their cages and infest N.Y.C. Of course, some of the rats were done with computers, but they used real ones when it counted. Rats don't scare me, but the ones in this movie did. The best scene was the pool scene when the rats swim after a bunch of kids. I had a problem with the ending. Without giving it away: she should have been dead. I HIGHLY recommend buying this DVD!

A customer at a posh department store is bitten by a rat in a dressing room. As a result, the store fires its current exterminators and hires the best in the city.

But the rat is only the start. The store has a big rat problem and it seems to originate outside the store. This is further proved when one of the store managers spots a rat in her home and her daughter is attacked at a recreation center.

Slowly we follow the trail of the rats and unravel the mystery behind their origins and attacks.

Decent acting and wonderful atmospheric settings help move the story along and keep the viewer neck prickling. Actual rat attacks are slight in number as the story and settings are used to create the rising fear of the rats.

I really enjoyed this one except when "the best in the business" baited his trap before setting it for the climactic battle. His competence level had been so high throughout the movie that I found it hard to believe he would intentionally do things backwards. but other than that, this was a surprisingly well-done film.

This wasn't scary. It was a waste of time. Why do these directors feel the need to "revive" a genre that everyone else hates? No body cares about B-Movies anymore. Especially these creature features. It's film's like this that killed the genre so as they would say in Pet Sematary "Sometime's dead is better." This is how this genre should stay, DEAD! Until someone with talent writes a script that hasn't been used a 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times before and actually gets people who have talent and can act, then I doubt we'll be seeing any good movie from this genre for a long time. This director needs to give up, he's got no futer in the film industry. Quit now while your ahead.

When a disease infeacted Rats is being running around New York City. Which they are Stalking and Killing the Citizens of NYC. An attractive Clothing Store-Supervisior (Madchen Amick) and an Expect on Catching Rats (Vincent Spano) are trying to stop and destory these Rats before taking over NYC.

Directed by John Lafia (Child's Play 2, Man's Best Friend) made a scary, entertaining film. Which it was made for Fox Television. There's some CGI effects on the design on the Rats. Some added violence, gore and nudity made this an R-Rating. This is One of the Best Rats films in a long time. Grade:A-.

Fox has released this made for TV movie into an entertaining DVD. Despite the budget, the movie looks believable. The Special effects are quite good displaying the rats stormed into children's swimming pool and on to the NY city subway train.

The story is about genetically enhanced rats that escape from abandoned midtown lab in NY city. Madchen Amick is the leading lady and Vincent Spano plays the exterminator. Madchen Amick is such a great actress, too bad now she only plays in TV movies.

The DVD itself is rather good, the picture quality is fine and the Dolby 5.0 (minus subwoofer channel) is OK as this is not a bass heavy movie anyway. Too bad the behind the scenes feature (lasts about 8 minutes) didn't show us much about the special effects and how to make Madchen Amick falls into the swimming pool full of rats.

But anyway this DVD deserved to be checked out as it is highly entertaining.

My recent venture to the video store has me bringing home animal revenge flicks as of late for some uknown reason.But this time i came across with a well made ,fast paced,and entertaining little gem called "the rats ".To be honest i was not expecting much but when it was all over and done i enjoyed it immensely!It even does one of my ole favorite cliches ,hints at a sequel.The plot is nothing special, but what there is of a plot all fits together.Rent this little gem you will be glad you did.