An enormous swarm of genetically altered locusts have just been let loose in the United States. These locust are bigger, stronger, faster and they can reproduce quicker than ever before, they are also immune to every known pesticide. As these swarms of biblical proportions move across the country, their food supply becomes short and when there is nothing left for them to eat, mankind will become the bottom of the food chain.

CBS borrows a page from the Sci-Fi channel and rushes out a new Sunday Night Event movie on par with Mansquito in Locusts. Was I the only one watching this one? This is as standard as they come, well maybe substandard is the word.

Lucy Lawless, who I feel looks hotter now than she ever did in Xena, plays Dr. Maddy Reardon, a USDA officer who catches on to the deadly bugs’ real reason for existence and tries to wipe them out and save mankind in the process. As you can probably guess the military is involved in one way or another.

Everything is cliché in this one folks, and I mean by the numbers. Teen lab assistants, corrupt military, greedy scientists, children in jeopardy of being eaten alive at a festival, it's all here. Plus not only does the plot cover environmental and military issues it also compares the locusts to the plagues of the Old Testament, if you’re going to run the bases, run them all.

It's the little things in Locusts that really got to me however, sometimes they bugs looked small other times they were as big as a cat, I guess it just depended on the camera angle. Also watch some of the background actors faces as they run supposedly being attacked by a swarm of bugs, instead of fear their faces are screaming "Look at me, I'm in a movie WHOO HOO!", some of them actually have smiles as they run by. And in the most terrible aspect of the movie, well besides the ending, is mid way through the film we watch as the locust break in through a skyscraper and attack those inside, yet at the end of the film a rickety old tin barn with gaps around the edges big enough to drive a car through keeps them out, dear lord.

For what it is Locusts is all right, I guess, but it is still pretty bad and don't look for many repeat viewings on CBS, however Sci-Fi may have a new EVENT film.

3/10