Mosquito Man

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grade-z, but strangely compelling.......2007-06-06

when this was shown on SciFi it was titled "Mansquito". I don't know why they changed the title.

undoubtedly you've seen the previews on sci-fi which show the sexy scientist tearing off her blouse-- that and the [original]title tell you all you need to know about how cheesy and ridiculous this picture is-- but I hate to admit I found it strangely watchable. Corin Nemec plays a positively Beowulfian cop who tussles repeatedly with the mansquito but somehow survives each time, while(numerous) lesser men and women die within a few tenths of a second of their 'squito encounters. The story hurtles forward at a breathless pace,which is undoubtedly a good thing considering how silly it is. The heroine is also infected by radioactive skeeter juice(hence her need to disrobe(?), and she figures out that Only She can lure Mansquito to his doom...and you can probably guess the rest.

Look: obviously no one watches a teevee movie called "Mansquito!"(it needed an exclamation point, don't you think?) expecting King Lear, unless they have neurological problems or something. Mansquito! is the cinematic equivalent of cheese nachos: you hate to admit you occasionally crave because you know they're nutritional gargbage-- good in a bad way.

And gee, I didn't know mosquitos could growl-- did you?

Tibor Takacs strikes again........2006-06-29

Mansquito (Tibor Takacs, 2005)

Corin Nemec first made a real impression in Hollywood as the male lead in the excellent, short-lived, highly underrated early-nineties sitcom Parker Lewis Can't Lose. With the exception of a role in the Mick Garris-helmed miniseries The Stand (in which he was woefully miscast and still managed to do an excellent job with the role), it's been all downhill from there.

Mansquito may be the nadir of Nemec's career. (His next flick puts him opposite the excellent, similarly underrated Ken Foree, so there's hope the long journey back into the light begins now.) Directed by Tibor Takacs, a man who has directed so many intended-for-theatrical-release-and-laughed-out-of-the-distribution-company-only-to-be-picked-up-by-the-Sci-Fi-Channel films it's amazing, Mansquito is the story of a (gorgeous, naturally) scientist (Musetta Vander [recently seen in O, Brother, Where Art Thou? for a very short time, turning John Turturro into a toad]) and her boyfriend (Nemec) the cop (because gorgeous research scientists have the time to have social lives, especially with cops, who work hours as long as theirs). The scientist is working for a company looking for a cure for the West Nile virus by genetically altering mosquitoes. There is the inevitable explosion, and the quickly-following Genetic Tampering Is Bad theme writ large, as a convict who's volunteered for human testing is exposed to radiation and, presumably, a large rain of disembodied mosquito parts, which turn him into, yes, the title character, who then goes around sucking peoples' blood and being hunted by said scientist and said cop. Takacs works with some of his favorite actors here, and they can't act any better than they ever could (Vander, especially, is not destined to get a lead role ever again, unless it comes from Takacs).

So you've got a plot thin enough that it's nonexistent, really bad acting, a script so awful it practically bleeds (let me rephrase an earlier statement: the nadir of Cory Nemec's career comes with the line "HEY, MANSQUITO!"). What could there possibly be worth watching about this dog? Well, it has the automatic train-wreck appeal: it's so bad you can't stop watching. But it also has, despite its silliness, an innate sense of pace. I grant you, there is no tension whatsoever to be built here, unless you're playing a drinking game that involves cast members spouting cliches. But if there were tension to be built here, the structure of the film allows that it might have actually happened. It's a surprisingly fast two hours. Though, granted, it's still two hours of your life that you will never get back.

Oh, and no mosquitoes were harmed in the writing of this review. Not surprising, since it's early March, and I'm in Cleveland. *

Worthy of a showing or two.......2006-02-14

Mosquito man was a average movie but with a great mosquito costume.
99% of the mosquito man scenes are great, and only 1 scene where you
the mosquito costume revealed too much.
Now if they would have invested in a better script this movie could
have been a 4 star movie.
The non-action scenes because of boring ' deja vu stuff' almost kills this movie...i dont know who to blame ...the actors or the
direction. Also the music was not too bad,, but better music might
have brought this film to a 3.5.
There is enough gore for the horror fan to enjoy.

WHAT'S THE BUZZ.......2005-10-09

Yes, you can tell the mosquito man costume is a man in a suit most of the time, but this movie harkens back to the days of the paranoid fifties when everyone was terrified at what nuclear war could do. This time, the ever popular theme of messing with mother nature is given a new twist in MOSQUITO MAN. The victim this time is a nasty serial killer who has been brought to a laboratory to test out a new breed of skeeters that might help lower the casualties in a new virus propagated by mosquitos that is 100 times worse than the Nile virus. He makes an escape attempt, however, and in the process is infected with the DNA of these mosquitoes and turns into a nasty mosquito man. Cheesy, indeed, but its obvious homage to those bug movies of the fifties is appreciated by one of those fans of that era. Corin Nemec and the rest of the cast of relative unknowns do a fairly decent job and some of the scenes have a tense ambience that makes this above average.

Nothing New.......2005-07-31

Pretty much a retread of numerous low budget horror flicks--the kind you used to see at drive-ins. The acting is pretty poor, the story line is worse, the interest factor is almost non existent. To top it all off the description on the dvd cover is almost totally wrong--making me think either the person who wrote it 1. Didn't actually watch it or 2. Was so bored they forgot what they watched or 3. Figured nobody would actually notice
Examples-"His lab is invaded by criminals intent on stealing a new vaccine"--actually one criminal who is supposedly a research volunteer is brought to the lab-where he manages to escape.
"When Bowman's attackers inject him with the experimental serum they unleash a horrifying transformation"--not quite right, while escaping the criminal causes an explosion which transforms himself into the mosquito man.
I'd have to recommend avoiding this clunker--unless you're in a mood for some Ed Wood type entertainment (not nearly as funny though)

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