Review of The Rats

The Rats (2002 TV Movie)
2/10
Poor Casting
26 March 2024
Warning: Spoilers
Oh, not more of this! Rats again?

They don't make for good movie villains.

It stars Madchen Amick. Wasn't she in King's 'Sleepwalkers?'

So, Romy or Michelle is casing Macy's over, and judging by her demeanor, she's going to steal the first item that's unmanned. This must be an old movie when honesty and trust were common traits, as today it's all under lock and key.

O la la, take it off, lady. Miss Perfection is here in the change room, stripping down and about to reveal the goods. Just as she's about to reveal all, some swift editing denies the viewer their just desserts. That's not fair. What a tease. I was willing to credit this movie with some bonus points for that scene alone, but now it's angered me.

"You live in the city; you're gonna have rats." It's nice to know Macy's has an infestation problem. I bet they don't have any at Harrods.

It looks like the first victim to fall will be Ricardo Lopez. He's the janitor of the lead actress's building.

Another fine beauty models a blue bikini by an indoor poolside. There are three good-looking ladies in this movie, and I thought they were all the same person. But this bikini instructor is the main actress's babysitter and housekeeper. I think. I need clarification on that.

Jack Carver is employed to eradicate Macy's rat problem, and if he's an exterminator, then I'm Hawaii's president.

Is that Marisa Tomei?

The model exterminator, with a PhD in psychics, brings an accomplice along, and they use luminol to highlight all the rats atrocities at Macy's, and there's crime scene evidence strewn everywhere.

The rats make their presence felt at a local swimming pool, and we see "The Body" run over a blocker who's only 8 years old. It reminds me of Costanza bowling over all the kids in front of Eric the clown.

Hmm, how convenient that the model exterminator, with a PhD in arithmetic, is the love interest for Marisa Tomei.

What is it with catastrophic, disaster action movies, and the time to find love among all the chaos?

Here's a guy on peanuts per hour; she lives in upstate New York, and they're compatible after only a day? Who's buying for a second that this Broadway pretty boy works with pesticides? The casting for this is all wrong again.

Um, hello, does anyone else find it strange that he's called in to exterminate the infestation at Macy's but tends to no other jobs on the side the entire time? The movie spans over a week. It only takes a quarter of the day for real bug sprayers to do their jobs, not over a span of days.

This is slowly sinking into a pit of misery.

As if a floor manager at Macy's would join the two exterminators on an underground tour to inspect vermin in a dangerous environment.

Frigging Jason's down here somewhere.

"I don't like this, Jack." Of course you don't, sweetie; you're not even supposed to be down here in the first place, as it breaks work regulations and protocol for the exterminator boys. You're a liability.

Wow, look at the floor manager of Macy's developing the hots for a contracted exterminator. Do you know how absurd that sounds?

I'm against animal cruelty, but hooray for Marisa Tomei driving over that rat and splattering it like the road kill it deserves to be. I have no love for vermin. And I despise people dressed in tight denim and sporting a rodent on their shoulder.

Is that Natalie Portman?

She quits her job as floor manager of Macy's to go pursue a career in an extermination squad while playing detective to shake down a laboratory that created these crossbred rodents. Can you hear yourself, movie?

No sooner does she join Team Extermina, are they breaking and entering a private residence and committing felonies? Out the door goes the last of her decadence, just to dwell in a disease-ridden crack house, searching for answers to the hordes of rat armies. Talk about a fall from grace overnight. "Hi mom." "Hello dear." "I'm now an exterminator working for two college dropouts." "You're what?"

Team Extermina comes full circle when the model, with a PhD in science, worms his way to Natalie Portman's apartment, and in about five minutes, no doubt they'll be sleeping together. He wins over her daughter by capturing one rodent, and soon he'll be her stepfather in world-record time.

This chick left her million-dollar-a-year job to become totally dependent on the exterminator's salary.

He didn't even bait the traps and plug the holes as promised at the start of the movie. They're doing nothing but over-analyzing scenarios throughout the whole movie instead of implementing any action.

I wish Jason would appear just to throw a spanner into the mix.

It turns out the rats were attracted to a certain brand of Mennen cologne, which is preposterous, and Team Extermina lured the bulk of the rodents to a swimming pool with skin bracers rigged to an electrical component that fries them to a golden crispy brown at the end. Serve with sour cream.

I can't let it slide how Portman fell into the pit of rodents for 5 minutes, and not one rat bit her the whole time. She must have been wearing the wrong-numbered Chanel or had rodent repellent on. They had no problem biting other saps.
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