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A group of American soldiers (who all look surprisingly Japanese) are
supposed to clean up in a US-research lab in Japan, but only one of them,
Jenny, really knows what has been going on in the lab, and she only tells
the others when the all exits of the building are already sealed shut: The
Americans have used the lab to experiment in biological warfare, but one
of their experiments has gone out of hands, a rat monster - Nezulla if you
like - that's supposed to spread the plague ... and somehow the virus has
escaped the lab and infected the neighbourhood, only Nezulla is still
here.
The big problem for our GIs: Jenny isn't exactly playing with an open
hand, and soon enough our gang of soldiers learn that she has actually
been ordered to blow the building to Kingdom Come, to wipe out all traces
of American foul play, and not as they think to retrieve the rat to
distill antibodies out of her blood.
Eventually, our American platoon meets Japanese soldier Aso, who pulls
off the typical cynical lone-wolf-routine and who has come to the lab to
find Nezulla, but instead Nezulla finds all of them, and before you can
say ... well, something really short anyways, the whole gang is reduced to
three, the soldiers' seargeant Sammy, the research scientist Yoko - who
isn't any good in combat, both because she's a civilian and a woman - and
of course tough guy Aso.
This threesome has of course run-in after run-in with Nezulla, and they
always only barely survive, but eventually they find an escape hatch
through which Sammy and Aso make Yoko escape after she promises to bring
more guns, some ammo and some cigarettes. Trying to get more guns, Yoko is
almost lynched by an angry mob, but as if to redeem herself she makes it
through all the hardships and brings the guns and ammo and cigarettes just
in time, and Sammy and Aso blow Nezulla to Kingdom Come and make it out
just before the lab is blown to Kingdom Come as well - and wouldn't you
know it, American Sammy and Japanese Aso, who initially couldn't stand
each other, have become friends during the course of the proceedings ...
An almost totally seperate subplot concerns a nurse who treats plague
victims and who has fallen for the doctor who she works for, however she
has to be contracted by the plague herself before the Doctor confesses he
loves her back ...
As you might have noticed upon reading the synopsis, Nezulla is
first and foremost another Alien
rip-off, and a rather unimaginative one too, rather the basic plot done
by-the-numbers. That the rat monster is by far not as imaginative as it
could have been doesn't help either, nor do quite a number of very cheesy
plot-elements (most prominently the doctor-nurse subplot, the story about
the Japanese and American learning to respect each other, and the sequence
in which Yoko redeems herself by bringing the weapons just in time).
By and large, nothing more than a waste of time and money. I like the
title Nezulla the Rat Monster immensely though. Too bad the film
behind it couldn't have been any better.
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