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FirstWitch A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Phillemos Between this CBS Made-for-TV movie and the similarly titled SciFi Original "Locusts: the 8th Plague," 2005 was one whopper of a year for killer locusts. It's bad enough we have our hands full in the Middle East, but now the U.S. Department of Agriculture has its hands full with locusts. Surprisingly, the CBS movie had much better special effects. But otherwise "The 8th Plague" was a better, if predictable, movie. The problem with "Locusts" is that it's not really a horror movie. It's almost like the producers said, "Let's figure out what would happen if we had to deal with a swarm of locusts and film it documentary-style." I expect blood and guts when I watch these movies, which there is very little of here. To be honest, this movie is probably a little better than the 1 I gave it -- at least the lady who plays Xena the Warrior Princess was good in this movie. And "The 8th Plague" is probably a little worse than the 4 I gave that movie. But it's the principle that matters. Maybe the CBS locusts and the SciFi locusts can get together in a future movie and have a throw-down brawl, a la Freddy vs. Jason, and we can really figure out who's badder.

RogerBorg And frankly, she's not that great in it, despite the skimpy outfits that they squeeze her into during the first act. In a couple of scenes, I had to look twice to be sure it was her. She looks and acts completely generic, but you can hardly blame her for choosing not to try to rise above the pedestrian script and direction.In fact it seems like all of the made-for-made-for-TV-movie cast are just sleepwalking through this yawnfest, apparently resigned to never rising above appearing in this kind of dross. The level of urgency and interpersonal conflict they display is about the same as I experience when trying to negotiate splitting a pizza with my wife.The production values are shoddy; it looks like it's been cobbled together from the cutting room floor of a particularly badly botched X Files episode, right down to the teletype-style scene captioning. The soundtrack in particular is irritating rather than stirring. And as other commentators have noted, it's embarrassingly obviously bankrolled by a mobile telephone company: nobody uses a landline in this movie, ever, even in a hospital bed.I'm hard pressed to determine what the point of this movie is supposed to be. It's not frightening, its not funny, none of the characters are sympathetic, it builds no tension and it begins and ends nowhere interesting. It just grinds its way towards a pointless and trite conclusion and it's really a relief when it's all over and the mercifully brief credits flash across the screen.

chakram_sais I liked this movie. OK, it was not perfect. But movies with disasters are usually so boring that I don't watch them until the end. I started watching this one because of Lucy Lawless, which is a wonderful actress, and I didn't regret doing it. Lucy Lawless did a good work, and so was the music of Joseph LoDuca. The other characters weren't as interesting a Lucy Lawless one, but they weren't bad. The crisis in Maddy's marriage was interesting, but didn't take attention from the main problem, the locusts.My favourite scene was the one with the helicopter, where Maddy's acts reminded me a bit what Xena would have done. I felt a bit shocked when a little girl suffered a coma just because she fell to the floor of a bus attacked by the locusts, but fortunately this plot didn't take much time from the main plot. I also liked the way Maddy's pregnancy wasn't a problem for her in order to solve the situation.In conclusion, I think that movie won't win any Oscars, but I spent a good time watching it. Now a sequel is going to be filmed, and I hope it is at least as good as "Locusts".

Charles Herold (cherold) I only watched this because I was curious to see Lucy Lawless do something besides Xena. I always thought she was a good actress, but it's hard to tell when none of the lines are worth speaking.I did not watch this for very long. It just had that, cheap, inept movie quality to it. The dialog was bad. It had these painful soap opera scenes between Lawless and her husband, or boyfriend, or whatever he was. I would get a bit nervous when I knew the bugs were about to attack, because it just seems icky, but the bug scenes I saw were notable for how completely unscary they were.I might have watched a bit more of this if I were a bigger fan of creepy crawlies. I'm not big on bugs, and while I'll watch a decent bug movie like Arachnophia I will not suffer through a bad bug movie.It's really very sad. Lawless was the star of a hit show and Heard has been in tons of major movies and here they are in a movie apparently made by a high school student of below-average intelligence. What a shame.