The Hive (2008) (TV)

User Rating:

3.6/10   

Director:

Peter Manus

Writer:

T.S. Cook (writer)

Release Date:

17 February 2008 (USA)

Genre:

Sci-Fi

Plot:

When ants, displaying never-before-seen behavior, seize an island, the controversial Thorax Team is called to stop the massive threat only to discover that the ants are controlled by something beyond this world. |

Plot Keywords:

Ant | Alien

Cast

Tom Wopat	...	Bill
Kal Weber	...	Len
Elizabeth Healey	...	Claire
Mark Ramsey	...	Cortez
Jessica Reavis	...	Debs

Runtime:

USA:90 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Certification:

Singapore:PG

Filming Locations:

Krabi, Thailand

Company:

Thai Occidental Productions

Goofs:

Factual errors: One of the team Thoax members yells about going to melt some endoskeletons, ants like most other insects have exoskeletons.

Indifferent acting, bad camera-work, lame plot. Give it a miss

The acting in this movie is mostly indifferent. Is this sci-fi? They have to be kidding (ants that crawl fast enough to catch running humans, and even give an SUV a run for its money)! Couple this pretty lame plot with some of the worst camera-work ever to be seen on TV or in the cinema, and you have the movie in a nutshell. Ultra close ups to the point where you can't work out what's going on (though you can see every blemish in the actors skin), wobbly cameras, to name but a few. The CGI ants are below average, and the final dénouement about the cause of everything just leaps from the improbable to the downright silly. Monty Python would have been proud of the ending! Give this a miss! Two stars (just because Elizabeth Healey is pretty).