Ratas

The documentary "Rats" would be excellent if not for its creators' mania for manipulative music and sound effects of horror films. They are out of place in a work with scientific pretensions. The images and information provided by this production of Discovery Channel are already powerful as to dispense with that unnecessary sonic frippery. The research made in different places of the United States, India, Cambodia and the United Kingdom leads to eloquent and sometimes overwhelming sequences that show how the plague is assumed in the world, from extermination with poisons to worship of the rats as sacred beings, passing through the consumption of the rodents as tasty gourmet dishes and their dog-like hunt as if they were foxes. In the last sequence what struck me was that Indian rats revered in a temple were thin and vegetarian-looking... But in spite of the foreign elements added to the sound track it is a good work that deserves to be seen. Recommended.

Rats can be drop-dead fascinating. Or insanely cringe-worthy ... especially when they show up in your life unwanted, unannounced and unwavering in their pursuit to proliferate and take, take, take.

If (or perhaps when, given today's rat explosion climate across the U. S.) you have the unfortunate experience of becoming rat-afflicted (like we did at my former workplace) ... even if you don't get BIT ... the presence of unexpected rats will leave your head on a psychological swivel.

I pursued this Morgan Spurlock RATS film after surviving a harrowing rat experience.

The teachings both jolted my nerves and my understanding of why humans should be concerned ... very, very concerned about the current steady creep of rat pathogens.

Spurlock takes the viewer into the dark underbelly of rats' innards ... depicts how these cunning creates operate according to their environment(s) and various, disparate human Rattus Rattus perspectives.

A must see for any American.

I really liked this new film by Morgan Spurlock. Personally I feel the whole horror-aspect (and the fact that some people seem to take offense to it)is a little overblown. For me the filmmakers created just the right amount of tension to tell a fascinating story about creatures that secretly live among us. They - the rats - are like us in many ways. Their way of living mirrors our own societies in many ways. And as we are told they will probably outlast us. Personally I saw the humans in this film as the bad guys. The film makes this pretty clear I think. All in all a very enjoyable film that will make me think twice about going out to diner.

This is by far the best documentary I have seen covering every aspect of vermin infestation. The only thing missing was the issue regarding the groundbreaking debut of Gambian pouched rat all across US.

I have a rule. I rate documentaries with: 7 if it is great. 6 if it is good. 5 if it is less than good.

The reason is: Docs have lower ceilling and higher floors, because they are all at least an extensive view/opinion on something (even if it is morally or factually wrong), and at most they are all edits of real life (no matter how long the doc is and how factual it is, there is subjetivity and therefore not the real thing).

This one is really disgusting, and it gets to you that this is a problem that we have and would have with graphic imagery. They are a plague, and they are ready to survive even more than we are.