Plot: government experiment with radiation produces giant locusts who try to eat Chicago. This is the sort of trashy movie they used to make for "drive-in" theaters in the 1950s. The special effects are so bad that they are unintentionally funny. It's a bit slow at times, because there are a lot of long scenes where the characters are just talking. (When you are making a low budget film, talking scenes are cheap to shoot.) However, when there are action scenes (giant bugs vs the US Army) they are pretty good. The Mystery Science Theater version of this film is one of their better episodes. The best jokes are when Mike and the bots are speaking in "bug voices."
Review of Beginning of the End
Beginning of the End
(1957)
Low budget "giant bug" movie ... fun to watch if you like "bad" movies
7 October 2019