Review of Rats (2016) by L337Ish — 29 Oct 2018

This documentary honestly makes me angry, it's so poorly done. The entire documentary is scored with horror and suspense music, which is just too loud. At times it's hard to focus on what people are saying because you're also having to listen to high energy music at full volume.

A great deal of the documentary is what appears to be B roll. You'll see entire scenes of people doing things, not talking, and not acting as a visual component to something a narrator is teaching you, because there is no narrator. Things that could have been talked about weren't, and it just really made the whole thing feel empty and devoid of substance. All in all this could have been a great documentary, because I do see rats being a potentially fascinating part of our world. But they deserve to be talked about without being exploited and prostituted like they are in this documentary. There is no attempt made to teach you about the relationship between humans, rats, and the rest of nature. It's just "scare scare scare, look how scary and gross rats are!" I can't say enough bad things about the music, it truly ruins the entire documentary. It never lets up, it never lets you just watch or listen to someone talk about rats.