Writers: Chauncy G. Parker III, Brian Taggert
Composer: Kenneth Wannberg
Starring: Peter Weller, Jennifer Dale, Lawrence Dane, Kenneth Welsh, Louis Del Grande, Shannon Tweed, Keith Knight, Maury Chaykin, Leif Anderson
More info: IMDb
Tagline: If it can't scare them to death, it will find another way.
Plot: A man who recently completed rebuilding a townhouse becomes obsessed with a rat infestation until it becomes an interspecies duel.
My rating: 5/10
Will I watch it again? No.
This little piece of yawnfest has only a few funny and neat moments. The title hits it on the head. We never know much about the giant rat (and I mean GIANT) that terrorizes Robocop except that it's stupid huge and clever. It's the kind of film that probably works better on paper because the imagination can go a long ways in filling in the visual details. It's not that this is a poorly made film, it's not really. The problem is that it takes a 45-60 minute idea and drags it out to an hour and a half and that spells out dullsville. I was straddling the edge of sleep after the first half hour. The Warner Bros. DVD has a good anamorphic widescreen print and the only extras you get are a commentary track with Peter Weller and George Cosmatos and an anamorpic widescreen trailer.
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