you know that one guy who would do anything to get you fire and destroy your house and alienate you from your friend and family and chew through your surge protector . you know and the usual . well and imagine if that guy be a poodle sized sewer rat . i wonder go into this movie why peter weller would agree to star in what be essentially the rat equivalent of jaw represent the revenge . i get my answer about twenty second into the film and where it open on a shot of shannon tweed and play well wife here and shower . umm and okay . she leave and along with weller extremely dimwitted kid to stay at a hotel ( only to pop up later in the movie scantily clothe back in her hotel or in a dream sequence in order to meet some strange 80 boob quota i suppose ) . weller be do fine by himself and ( stay behind to finish some work ) and until the dishwasher overflow and eventually upset a rat who decide to move into his apartment . it hard to gauge just how big this thing be suppose to be until it decide to crawl up under the cover in weller bed later and apparently he the size of a tomcat . weller do his best to get rid of the rat and upgrade from normal rat trap to ( what be basically ) miniature bear trap . when the medieval rat trap do not work or come back gnaw on he decide to get a cat and which also come back gnaw on ( or replace with a cheap stuffed animal that resemble his cat ) . when he decide to ignore the rat he chew on on his surge protector and fuse box and and therein cut off the power . weller run around the house and bashing hole into wall in search of the rat and be plague by nightmare of birthday party where the giant rat jump out of a sheet cake ( . ) and and where his dimwitted kid end up mix in various rat poison in with his cereal . the finale brought to mind arachnophobia a it end in a dank basement while the film end maybe twelve second after the rat be dispatch a weller brush himself off a if the last two hour hadn not just happen just in time to greet his wife and kid at the front door . i be sure they would not notice the completely demolished apartment .