Review – Spiders

Yep, them are spiders all right. Big ones. There’s some lame excuse for a plot built in here somewhere, something about an experiment on a space shuttle gone awry, returning alien-DNA-gene-manipulated tarantulas to earth to wreck havoc upon an Area 51-style military base, a host of creepy government types and a trio of college journalists. This flick shoots just about its entire wad (fiscally and dramatically) in the final few minutes as a giant CG space spider runs amuck. Aside from the conclusion, however, there’s nothing here besides a script, effects and acting so terrible that most first-semester film students would be ashamed to have their names on it. See if desperate