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The Hive
When ants, displaying never-before-seen behavior, seize an island, the controversial Thorax Team is called in to stop the massive threat, only to discover that the ants are controlled by something beyond this world.
Release : | 2008 |
Rating : | 3.2 |
Studio : | Thai Occidental Productions, |
Crew : | Production Design, Director of Photography, |
Cast : | Tom Wopat Kal Weber Elizabeth Healey Mark Ramsey Chalad Na Songkhla |
Genre : | Horror Action Science Fiction |
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Very disappointing...
I'll tell you why so serious
It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.
All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.
Following an epidemic in Brazil, a team of specialists investigating the voracious ant colonies discover the creatures are from outer space intending to colonize the planet and launch an attack against the insects to stop their plans.There was some decent stuff to this one when it tried to. One of the best parts here is pretty much the whole first half as there is some really great action scenes which is really fun and enjoyable. It's a fun story to see this kind of struggle going on all pretty much the first half of the film, and it's really fun and entertaining the way it plays out that the beginning has a lot to enjoy about it. This becomes quite fun as the two different sides are engaged in war, which allows for some really fun moments of the military getting the upper hand with the plasma rifles when it wipes out a huge swarm in an intense blue-light, and a later scene when they use it to blast a humongous swarm straight off a fallen victim is a visually-impressive sequence. The very first encounter on the outskirts of the town with the tactics to keep them at bay looks really great, and seeing the retaliation from the ants being really nice as well, including the film's top kill watching one of the peasants get swarmed by the creatures and completely stripped down to bones seconds later. Others, such as the battle in the factory leading to the trap is impressive as there's a fair amount of tension brought up from the gradual realization of the trap, and there's also the scene where they form an offense and attack leading to some really great battles. As well, there's the tense, action-packed finale in the cave, which has a gigantic ant-made-of-ants interacting with them and features a lot of nice action to get the colony under control which gives this some great work and ends it on a high-note. These are all that really work for this one as there wasn't a whole lot really wrong. This is all pretty much in the middle of the film because the film throws in the really lame and quite unnecessary plot-twist by making the ants aliens. This is completely lame and idiotic, as the scenes which showcase this, from the ants in the colony and the repeated attempts at trying to understand them, manages to undo the rather enjoyable war-story-like- battle with the ants. Also, this one has a much lower body count than it should as this one manages to have not even a half a dozen deaths, an incredibly paltry number for a creature feature, and none of the ones in here are even gory. The last flaw here is the really weak CGI, which is typical of these kinds of films that rarely looks anything at all that realistic, and really is quite easy to determine when and where it's used, though it isn't as detrimental as expected. These are the film's few problems as there's a lot more to like here.Rated R: Violence and Language.
This may have been independently financed and then picked up for broadcast on the Syfy Channel or Syfy is totally guilty of paying to produce this dreck. But then what else do you expect from Syfy? The story here is about an elite group of exterminators who are called in to get a pretty serious infestation taken care of. Ants swarm, they kill people and they are smart enough to actually hold people hostage. Ay caramba. Poor Tom Wopat (Luke Duke) -- he must need money or something to have signed on to be in this. Terrible acting, terrible writing, total junk! Out of 96 movies I watched from January 1st to April 12th in 2013, this was the third worst! 2.8 / 10 stars --Zoooma, a Kat Pirate Screener
i really can't think off hand the last time i seen a supposed horror movie this lousy,, Tom Wopat's acting was well very wooden at best. the storyline well was totally unbelievable,, " we don't negotiate with ants" oh boy,, and the part where the ants got that thing going on , like they are talking to the humans, where do they actually get this stuff, the only part i think i actually liked was where one of the ants crawled in the guys ear, and kept messing with him the whole entire movie. i have seen some bad horror movies but this one i think really takes the cake , because it is so unbelievably bad, and for the most part very unrealistic, i think that this movie could have been better, with a better director, and better actors would have helpled quite a bit, you could have had the ants swarming and stuff,, and terrifying people , but i think that you would have to cut the crap out about the ants communicating, that has to go .
The Thorax team is tasked with exterminating ants that somehow managed to take over an island, but these are no ordinary any, oh no, there's are super-ants with a master plan. Yes, this movie is utterly ridiculous, but it's also extremely watchable and has a very high camp factor. The Sci-fi channel doesn't have the best of track records when it comes to their 'Sci-fi Originals', but thankfully this one stands head and shoulders among the best of those. Turn off your brain, just go with it, and enjoy the film with your choice of alcoholic beverage. The only grip I have is that the ending was a bit of a let-down.My Grade: B