"Webs" is a lot of fun and definitely worthwhile creature feature.
**SPOILERS**
Investigating an abandoned building, electrical workers Dean, (Richard Grieco) Ray, (Richard Yearwood) Sheldon, (Jeffrey Jones) and Jones, (Anthony Ashbee) are sent in to find a reason why power charges still occur. Discovering a hidden room, they are mysteriously transported to an alternate universe of Chicago. Finding the area overrun by gigantic, ravenous spider-people and are leading a war against the sole survivors of the dimension, lead by Elena, (Kate Greenhouse) Crane, (David Nerman) and Dr. Richard Morelli, (Colin Fox) who also entered the dimension years ago. Desperate to get back to their dimension, they become aware of a plot by the spider-people to take control of the transporter for their own use, leading to an all-out war with them for the dimension-transporter.
The Good News: This wasn't an all that bad entry, and was actually pretty good at times. The fact that there's a lot of action is something to enjoy, as this one's a rather fun action movie disguised as a creature feature. By coming into the realm engaged in a war, it shows some really nice scenes between the two sides. The first sequence where they come into contact with them, outside the bank near the tunnel that the trap is laid, is a great one, as is the several confrontations that occur throughout to show the war going on, which is nicely done. The fact that there's a lot more confrontations spread throughout here, because of the way the film presents the struggle as being a war, we get some great scenes, including other fights as well as two raids which determine the finale being really great. The fact that both of them are so close to each other that they meld into one straight sequence is a blessing, and allowing all of the action, from the battles in the school rooms and to the rather fun closing in the hideout, these are all really great and offer up a bunch of great action scenes. These also work to give the film a fantastic pace as well, which is a good bonus. This one never feels boring or slow and these are useful in keeping it going along rather nicely. This one also has a really high body count, which is also a plus, and many of them are gory as well. There's numerous amounts of stabbing and impaling with the long spears, plenty of splatter from gunshots, limbs ripped off, scratched and devoured, another has half their body ripped up and scratched from an attack, there's another torn in half at the waist and one where the pincers are impaled in the back and come out the chest in front, among other in here. That these provide such a high count is great, as it offers up plenty of opportunity for something to happen, and that makes the size of it impressive and help the war out a little more. The last plus is the relatively fun creatures on display. The spider design is impressive, looking really nice and quite scary at times, especially during the opening battles and a couple of moments where the queen is on-screen. She looks really nice as well, even better than the drones and the fact that this one decides to give them a little bit in terms of social structure complete with rules about what happens and all. These here are the film's good points.
The Bad News: There wasn't much wrong to this one. Despite looking rather cool, the fact that the spiders look so fake and corny is the main one here. There's no real sense of taking them seriously at all since the scenes are nothing more than just laughable and hardly any attempt is made to disguise the fact. It's all very fake-looking and don't really do it justice. There's also the film's other flaw, the completely illogical, contrived and convoluted way of explaining how the teleporting-device works, which is a major selling point of the film. The way it's presented here has little to no way of being coherent at all, and is only given a cursory glance at late into the film that actually comes close to explaining it, yet that's all not very much. These here are all that you can really fault this one.
The Final Verdict: With some great stuff to it and a couple of minor flaws, this one is a really entertaining and enjoyable entry. Give this one a shot if you're into the genre, like the Sci-Fi Channel creature features or find it interesting, while those who aren't big fans of the style should heed caution.
Rated R: Graphic Violence and Graphic Language
**SPOILERS**
Investigating an abandoned building, electrical workers Dean, (Richard Grieco) Ray, (Richard Yearwood) Sheldon, (Jeffrey Jones) and Jones, (Anthony Ashbee) are sent in to find a reason why power charges still occur. Discovering a hidden room, they are mysteriously transported to an alternate universe of Chicago. Finding the area overrun by gigantic, ravenous spider-people and are leading a war against the sole survivors of the dimension, lead by Elena, (Kate Greenhouse) Crane, (David Nerman) and Dr. Richard Morelli, (Colin Fox) who also entered the dimension years ago. Desperate to get back to their dimension, they become aware of a plot by the spider-people to take control of the transporter for their own use, leading to an all-out war with them for the dimension-transporter.
The Good News: This wasn't an all that bad entry, and was actually pretty good at times. The fact that there's a lot of action is something to enjoy, as this one's a rather fun action movie disguised as a creature feature. By coming into the realm engaged in a war, it shows some really nice scenes between the two sides. The first sequence where they come into contact with them, outside the bank near the tunnel that the trap is laid, is a great one, as is the several confrontations that occur throughout to show the war going on, which is nicely done. The fact that there's a lot more confrontations spread throughout here, because of the way the film presents the struggle as being a war, we get some great scenes, including other fights as well as two raids which determine the finale being really great. The fact that both of them are so close to each other that they meld into one straight sequence is a blessing, and allowing all of the action, from the battles in the school rooms and to the rather fun closing in the hideout, these are all really great and offer up a bunch of great action scenes. These also work to give the film a fantastic pace as well, which is a good bonus. This one never feels boring or slow and these are useful in keeping it going along rather nicely. This one also has a really high body count, which is also a plus, and many of them are gory as well. There's numerous amounts of stabbing and impaling with the long spears, plenty of splatter from gunshots, limbs ripped off, scratched and devoured, another has half their body ripped up and scratched from an attack, there's another torn in half at the waist and one where the pincers are impaled in the back and come out the chest in front, among other in here. That these provide such a high count is great, as it offers up plenty of opportunity for something to happen, and that makes the size of it impressive and help the war out a little more. The last plus is the relatively fun creatures on display. The spider design is impressive, looking really nice and quite scary at times, especially during the opening battles and a couple of moments where the queen is on-screen. She looks really nice as well, even better than the drones and the fact that this one decides to give them a little bit in terms of social structure complete with rules about what happens and all. These here are the film's good points.
The Bad News: There wasn't much wrong to this one. Despite looking rather cool, the fact that the spiders look so fake and corny is the main one here. There's no real sense of taking them seriously at all since the scenes are nothing more than just laughable and hardly any attempt is made to disguise the fact. It's all very fake-looking and don't really do it justice. There's also the film's other flaw, the completely illogical, contrived and convoluted way of explaining how the teleporting-device works, which is a major selling point of the film. The way it's presented here has little to no way of being coherent at all, and is only given a cursory glance at late into the film that actually comes close to explaining it, yet that's all not very much. These here are all that you can really fault this one.
The Final Verdict: With some great stuff to it and a couple of minor flaws, this one is a really entertaining and enjoyable entry. Give this one a shot if you're into the genre, like the Sci-Fi Channel creature features or find it interesting, while those who aren't big fans of the style should heed caution.
Rated R: Graphic Violence and Graphic Language