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Christy Lemire, Associated Press: A movie that's too unintentionally funny to be scary. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Bats has nothing to do with baseball or Bela Lugosi. Too bad, because either would be a welcome distraction from this cheesy B-flick about genetically altered man-eating bats. Read more
Lisa Alspector, Chicago Reader: This bad-scientist movie about bats that attack humans and the humans who track them -- Texas sheriff Lou Diamond Phillips and zoologist Dina Meyer -- is played straight, though it wasn't intended to be taken that way. Read more
Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: It's no knockout, but it's fun and gets the job done in a nonmalicious way, which more of today's punishing filmmakers should emulate. Read more
Lawrence Van Gelder, New York Times: Masquerading as a Halloween season horror film, this noisy version of a washed-out formula is cause for fright in only one respect: the possibility that it could spawn sequels. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Without any vampires, there's a lack of material for fans to sink their teeth into. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Typically, the movie never gets around to mentioning why the government bred these genius bats. To discourage nightlife? To enforce curfews? Read more