

Dr. Maddy Rierdon, an investigator for the Department of Agriculture, is the only person who can protect America from a deadly breed of bioengineered locusts.
Acting
Lucy Lawless commits harder than this script deserves.
Practical Effects
CGI locusts that aged like milk in a hot car.

Director
David Jackson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This aired on CBS as a TV movie, part of the brief 2000s trend of eco-horror disaster flicks chasing Sharknado energy before Sharknado existed.
Lucy Lawless spent her post-Xena years in exactly this niche — genre TV movies where she outclassed every element around her. Respect.