Calum Hutton
It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...
Bob
This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.
Logan
By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.
Flow
I guess they could have shown something far worse than this, and for that I'll give it an extra credit. But bare in mind, there is absolutely no reason whatsoever to watch Bottom Feeder.So, if you're into creature movies, look elsewhere, if you're into low budgets, or indie projects, again, nothing to see here, try elsewhere, you are bound to find something, anything, better than this. But if you do decide to play it, just lower your expectations, as much as you can, and watch it at your own peril. Some moments you will have to question your decision, others, perhaps acknowledge that you did a bad thing and probably there is no way out. I mean if you do get halfway, I guess there is nothing more to do but endure.Cheers!
slayrrr666
"Bottom Feeder" is a decent if not entirely spectacular killer rodent film.**SPOILERS**Working on a clean-up crew, Vince Stoker, (Tom Sizemore) and his crew Otis, (Martin Roach) and Callum, (Joe Dinicol) welcome his niece Sam, (Amber Cull) when they are assigned to a new job. Arriving at the facility, an abandoned medical testing lab, they go through the facility going down into the tunnel system below. While searching through the facility, the group is soon ambushed by a large creature living in the tunnels. They soon find the source of the giant rats as being the cause of a chemical drug used by the ailing Charles Deaver, (Richard Fitzpatrick) who had requested the drug to help him but a side-effect of them caused a mutation that turned them feral and huge, and are the cause of their slowly-disappearing numbers. Finally finding a way to stop the creatures, they set out to get away from the sewers with the creature crawling around killing everyone it can.The Good News: There was some good stuff to this one when it got around to it. One of the better aspects is the film's incredibly creepy location, which is quite a big plus. The fact that they're in a sewer, which is already creepy, but it looks really great here due to the fact that this one is well-handled, effectively looking like an abandoned building should've been, with the appropriate amount of decay present with the other little things, such as what would be found in a sewer to begin with but simply rotted away due to time, is a very nice touch. That it's also dark most of the time seems to work well for this one, meaning that it's just an incredibly suspenseful location, and mixed together with the corridor of tunnels down there and the overall look to it, this one comes out rather nicely. There's also a nice bonus here in that, although it deals with a giant rat, it's not in the traditional sense of how it came about and instead is brought about through the chemical affected another party than what would be the norm, and it is much better than having a gigantic swarm of rats doing the killing. The confrontations with it are even better, as the encounters down in the creepy sewers provide a lot of fun times and generally seem highly enjoyable. The car-park one is one of the best ones, and the shootouts in the corridors work amazingly well at getting a lot of good action into this one. Even the surprise jumps from the creature attacking generate some fun, and the conclusion scores rather nicely before veering off. The last plus here is the film's incredibly high gore content, which is much higher than normal. There's an arm sawed through with a drill, a messy decapitation, several limb amputations, a saw through the chest, scratches across the face and chest with deep gouges through them and a lower jaw completely ripped out at the seems, among others in here so this one gets really bloody when it wants to. These here the film's good points.The Bad News: There was a couple problems for this one. One of the biggest ones is that the film really doesn't have a whole lot going for it when it comes to the beginning part of this. It's just far too long and not all that entirely interesting when it presents it's opening. Here, going from the run-down with the chemical to the meeting between the two parties and the aftermath of that to getting into talking about the mission from the crew, it takes about thirty minutes before even going down into the sewers, and the rat isn't the first thing done down there either. There's not a whole lot of interesting things going on through these parts of the film, and it just makes these parts of the film drag on and on for some time before it gets really good. Another problem is that there's not a whole lot of clarity when it comes to dealing with the creature's attacks. Most of them are either over so quick it's hard to tell what happened until the aftermath, too dark to render anything visible, edited so haphazardly it's impossible to see anything, or a combination of them, and a few suffer from all those factors which is really unfortunate as they were set-up to be among the better scenes until the flaws kicked in. The last flaw here is the film's incredibly stupid ending, which has almost nothing right going for it and is just all-around bad, no matter how it's looked at. These here are the film's bad points.The Final Verdict: While it's not entirely bad, there's not nearly enough good points to raise this one into the upper echelons of the genre. Worthwhile look for those that are interested or find these kinds of films enjoyable, but definitely heed caution if you're not one of those who likes these films.Rated R: Graphic Violence and Graphic Language
mattressman_pdl
Tom Sizemore lends his name to a schlocky, midnight-monster movie that is exactly as good as it looks and sounds. Not to say it is necessarily a GOOD movie, far from it, but take it for what its worth and you will enjoy it.A group of utility workers are trapped in a series of tunnels which, unfortunately, contain a scientist mutated by his own creation. The creature feeds instantly on a rat, becoming what it has eaten.The effects leave something to be desired, although it IS refreshing to see them returning to the monster in the suit instead of leaning on shoddy CGI. The entire film has a cheesy, low-budget horror/sci-fi feel to it. So if you're a fan of monster movies, you could do worse. See it for free but I would hesitate to recommend spending cash on it.
gavin6942
A maintenance crew headed by Tom Sizemore goes into an abandoned hospital to look for old equipment to sell to collectors. But a multi-millionaire has a scientist in the catacombs under the hospital, who has developed a serum to cause rapid regeneration and cellular growth. The scientist, who has taken the serum, is finding the results to be a bit more extreme than expected.For my beef with 235 films (who produced this), see my review for "The Mad". This film's selling point was easy to identify as soon as I picked it up: it has Tom Sizemore in it. And, hey, I like Tom Sizemore (rent "Lock Up" with Sylvester Stallone) so this seems like something worth checking out.That selling point is about as far as you can get with this one. You have a very one-dimensional millionaire who survives a fire. A creature in a tunnel who becomes part rat and part dog. A bum who is apparently a Rastafarian. These things mix well, surprisingly, but only in the most absurd sense of the word "well". It's just a lot of strange things going on.The crew's background is in makeup, and it shows. There is a scene where they chop off a guy's fingers that was alright, and the creature is especially slimy. But the creature is just poorly conceived: in horror, there needs to be a balance of how much you do and do not show a monster. Here, they couldn't decide to show him too little (much of the film is almost pitch black) or too much (making him seem somewhat dumb).I'd be lying if I said I didn't enjoy this film. I did. But the actors were nothing special, I didn't care about the characters, and Sizemore is either doped up or washed up in this film. Maybe he's not doped up. But whatever the case, he just looked old and tired. I can't have my hero looking like he wants to drink a six-pack of Coors Original (the Banquet Beer), smear Dorito orangeness on his chest and pass out watching NASCAR. This Sizemore didn't even have enough energy in him to pass gas.I guess this isn't really telling you what you need to know, but there's really nothing to know: bad hero, weak monster, fake secondary characters. Unless your goal is to just get drunk or high and need something on the screen to move every so often, this isn't going to thrill you. If you want a good underground monster, rent "Tremors" or "CHUD".
