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First let me declare that I dislike the bizarre belief of many French filmmakers that to make a 'political statement' all that is required is to set your film in the banlieue and have at least half your characters non-caucasian. INFESTED is invested in this belief. The film's political position is utterly incoherent, as are almost all its characters.

So the film spends its first hour presenting squabbles between characters who live in a high-rise, yet those characters change their motivations and attitudes at the drop of a hat. We have no idea who any of these characters are, what they want or how they are motivated, so have no possibility of empathising or connecting with any of them.

Contributing to this lack of connection is the sheer murkiness of the cinematography, and the incompetence of the camera operation: we literally can't see what the characters are doing, and even those shots that reveal the first attacks of the spiders are so brief and their movement so fast, that they are unreadable. (Viewed on a very large-screen TV on Shudder; but I seriously doubt that cinema projection would make the slightest difference).

This picture is all grunge and grime attitude, 'edgy' characters (ie shouty and aggressive, always challenging each other over trivial issues) and no competent definition of the specifics of jeopardy that they face, or why we should care.

I'm afraid that one commentator's claim that 'This is how debut films ought to be made... Well acted, funny, well-shot and keeps you in suspense from start from finish' made me laugh out loud.

This picture is utter junk, so inept that it made me forget my own fear of spiders!

The fact that the film is about a toxic, aggressive and invasive species invading France and destroying the local people and is cast with a majority of non-French born, immigrant and minority persons is so telling of modern cinema. The only white French people cast in the film were either cast as oppressive, tyrannical villains or weak minor characters that are ordered around by their minority counter parts.

Besides the overall irony, it is incredibly boring and poorly made. I did not connect or care about any of the characters and was actually rooting for the spiders to kill every single one of them on the screen.

Just watch Arachnophobia instead.