Check out those posters! I think they might end up being better than the movie itself, but I figured I'd give the movie a chance at least. Living in Michigan, I'm used to dealing with swarms of mosquitoes every year. They tend to travel in huge packs, biting anyone who happens to be in their way. I used to spend my summers covered in mosquito bites from playing outside. of course, in this movie, the mosquitos are the size of a human die to some alien activity or some such hogwash. Anything to explain how the mosquitos grew to such epic proportions.
The movie is about an alien spacecraft that crashes in a park. Soon mosquitos are swarming and feeding off the alien corpses. Before you can say "Food of the Gods," the mosquitos have become human sized deadly creatures. A rookie park ranger and her boyfriend are camping in a local park when they discover the human-sized insects. in order to defeat the creatures, they must team up with a local park ranger and a mysterious survivalist (played by none other than Gunnar Hanson). Will the ragtag bunch be able to stop the mosquitos in time?
There's some surprisingly good gore in this movie. one scene where the mosquitos attack a guy on a boat near the beginning of the movie is particularly gruesome and it had me cringing. Of course, most of the rest of the movie had me cringing for other reasons, as our heroes are besieged by cartoony swarms of giant mosquitos. From far away, the effects used to show the mosquitos are really cheesy and they do look like Saturday morning cartoons from the 80s gone wrong, but then up close the practical effects used to create the mosquitoes look better, at least to me. This was the days from before CGI took over. Nowadays everything would be done with CGI and it would have looked even cheesier.
There's not much more to say about this movie. The acting is strictly amateur hour and that makes it hard to connect with the characters. The best actor of the bunch is definitely Gunnar Hanson, of Texas Chainsaw Massacre fame, and even he is phoning it in here. It's unfortunate that I have to make that comparison between that movie and this one, because that movie did some amazing things on a low budget, and this movie just drags along in contrast, being boring and taking forever to get to the point and then looking really silly once it does get to the point. I really wanted to like this one, but it was just a disappointment for me.
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