The captain and Ichiro remain behind to battle the swarm of giant cockroaches. Tezuka injects the DNA and transforms into a Steninae MacLeay then sits on the back of the Mars rover and blows a jet of fire out to propel it across the terrain and kill giant cockroaches at the same time. Captain Dojima injects the DNA and transforms into a bullet ant ( Paraponera clavata) with the power to lift one hundred times his own weight and kills the giant cockroach.ĭozens of giant cockroaches swarm into the spacecraft as an expedition team prepares to venture out to grab parts from the BUGS 1, the vessel from the previous mission 10 years earlier, to get the current vessel BUGS 2 into shape to return to Earth. The cockroach survives the fire blast and kills God Lee.Ī giant cockroach climbs on top of the spacecraft breaks through its transparent shell, killing two members of the team as it falls. He walks on the surface of Mars and injects the DNA when he encounters a giant cockroach, transforming into a miidera beetle ( Pheropsophus jessoensis) with the power to emit fire. God Lee is eager to accept the infusion, believing that his powers will also give him added bargaining power when he returns to Earth. In order to combat the creatures the team is given a range of specially concocted DNA infusions individually designed to give each member of the team special powers. They determine that these creatures are the result of the accelerated evolution of the original small roaches sent by humans to aid in the terraforming efforts 500 years earlier. Eventually they come upon human-sized anthropomorphic cockroaches wielding clubs that quickly kill two of the humans with their superior speed and physical strength. They release a roach bomb but when they walk onto the surface they do not find any dead roaches among the moss. They enter the new atmosphere aboard the BUGS 2 and find the terraforming to have been successful. The crew is an international team of misfits and criminals who are given the opportunity to take part in the mission to gain forgiveness for their crimes. They also introduce cockroaches in order to spread the moss.ĥ00 years later, in the year 2599, a crewed mission is sent to the red planet to clear out the cockroach colony in preparation for the human colonization of Mars. Their first steps in the terraforming of Mars involve seeding the planet with moss in order to absorb the sunlight and create a hospitable atmosphere as well as increase the surface temperature. In the 21st century, overpopulation has become such a problem that scientists begin preparing for the colonization of Mars. ( October 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. At least there is no boring John Carter and they are not talking about botany again.This article's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed. In short, don't expect more for your money than you get from all of the above which, as you now know, is plenty: just rush to see it like I did, and be pleased. So I watched this colourful, surreal, and jaw-dropping extravaganza marrying insects and cinematic insanity. There are what appear to be the pyramids of Giza on Mars I don't know why, even when explained on screen - but that's OK I guess, as we never get close. The evil insects are cute, rather than menacing, and when they grin, look like they wear dentures. The cockroaches, who move super-fast at one moment and can fly their legions, usually stand round and stare at their victims quizzically, waiting for them to gear up before attacking slowly. There is also a token terrorist announced as a job description, and a villain who is, patently, a fashion victim. The director slips in a gratuitous Yakuza moment, and thinks it cool. The flashbacks do nothing to advance things, can be confusing and, at least once, amusingly bathetic. At the start it rips off 'Blade Runner' - almost shot-for- shot in a couple of places. In it, Miike abandons any of the art-house pretensions about which people find to argue and discuss in some of his other work, in place of lurid and batty SF fantasy. OK, here's the shocking truth: this film, which ought to have the English language title of 'Cockroach Planet', is pretty bad.
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