Maybe if the bugs had been big and/or radioactive, we could have had some fun set pieces, but eventually it sets in that maybe this doesn't want to be a fun, silly bug movie.
I mean, the premise of insects wanting to wipe out humanity before humanity wipes them out is absurd, but through this crazy premise, the film gets pretty serious, thematically, while looking at things like the atomic bomb attacks on Japan and the Holocaust, which must given this its title of Genocide.
Not sure I've ever had a B-movie like this go so heavy (especially when at the start it looked like it was going to be very silly), and I don't think it truly works, but it's an admirable effort.
It will surely stick out in my memory the more and more old Japanese horror movies I work through in the future.
