Review – Mulberry Street

And to think that I saw it. New York City is up to its earlobes in were-rats (yes, you read that right). The things have a certain 28 Days Later quality to them, but otherwise they’re about as scary as you’d expect them to be. The principal problem with this production is that it’s all wind-up and no pitch. Things stay interesting as long as the characters are trying to figure out what’s going on, but once we’ve firmly established that the city has a bad case of were-rats, the movie turns into a tedious parade of “oh no, were-rats! Run away!” We also get “treated” to excessive, pointless animal cruelty toward the end, and of course that’s an automatic deduction on the ratings scale. See if desperate