Maybe it was a temporary horror interest, or maybe it was the apparent oddness of this one coming out. Either way it came and went, wasn't in theaters long, I never saw it.
Directed by X-Files dude Glen Morgan, the film stars Crispin Glover as Willard, a spineless weirdo living with his mom, who has no friends. There's rats in his basement and eventually he befriends them, and discovers they obey him to an extent. What will he do with this power?
Crispin was over-acting, hamming it up big-time as Willard, that's the first thing I noticed. I have to think that led to negative reviews. I'm surprised frankly that this movie didn't flop hugely, and that it still has a 61% rating. Cause this was legit terrible.
I wanted to like this, at least mildly, and the shots and camera work were nice, but it's contrived, clueless, and clonky. R Lee Ermey plays Willard's boss and he's a evil boss stereotype, Willard lives with his old gross mom who's a stereotype, some girl likes Willard for no apparent reason, then there's the rats.
When the best thing you can say about the rats is that "sometimes they're not cgi...?" than you have a real problem. First of all, they are mostly CG. Then there's just the fact they don't make sense. The quantity of rats changes abruptly without reason, and there's the "star rat" Socrates as well as the "bad rat" Ben. Ben is a CG big ol' rat, who Willard inexplicably hates. It doesn't make sense plot-wise and there is no reason I could discern other than to breed plot intrigue later down the line.
But since there is no change, and since it's fairly obvious where the film is going, the intrigue fails and instead you have a hour 45 minute film that drags on, with nothing to offer and no real suspense or horror. Crispin's over-acting seals the deal, makes it so that truly nothing is likable. I wavered because I didn't want to give it zero stars, but ya know what?! 0 stars.
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