Boba_Fett1138 This movie is for some part being a good and enjoyable senseless movie, that really isn't half as bad as you beforehand would expect but it takes some seriously wrong turns toward the end.I was really liking this movie went it was being simply a killer animals against humans movie. But the movie must have thought that this wasn't being anything good enough, so they actually decided to throw in a plot, involving the ants getting extraordinarily smart and try to communicate and negotiate with humans to get what they want. As ridicules as the movie already was at its beginning, it at least was still something I could accept. I simply took the movie as some mindless fun but the movie was simply pushing its luck and really going too far with its ridiculousness and story. And it's not like this movie is being a comedy, even though it might sound that way, the way I'm describing things. The movie is really being death serious, which only makes things all the more ridicules.It also certainly doesn't help that the movie is featuring some extremely bad spacial effects. All the more ridicules and bad is the way its getting used. Seriously, this movie really didn't needed much special effects but at times they really try desperately to impress you with it all which, needless to say, just never is the case. Especially the ending was ridiculously bad, when the gloves really seemed to come off.It's also a movie that runs out of steam half way through. It's hard to keep your interest in this movie. Luckily the movie isn't being anything too long to watch.I was willing to let lots of this movie its ridiculousness slip, until things were simply getting too crazy and unconvincing. Still I have to say that as far as these low budget killer animal movies go; there are far worse ones to watch out there.5/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/

NavyOrion I've liked movies about rampaging army ants ever since seeing Charleston Heston chewing the scenery in 1954's "The Naked Jungle." So I knew I'd have to check out "The Hive" on Sci-Fi (or SyFy, whatever they are this week.) This being the Sci Fi channel, I knew not to expect much in the way of special effects, and was not disappointed. The effects were, as usual, terrible, and the acting was only a small step better. Kal Weber stars as a cut-rate Keanu Reeves, Eizabeth Healey is annoying as the inevitable too-earnest scientist / love interest, and Tom Wopat of "The Dukes of Hazard," now so grizzled that he was completely unrecognizable, twitches and jerks as the world's most macho exterminator.But as I said, all that was to be expected of a Sci-Fi original; if you can't take that, you need to look elsewhere on a Saturday night, because bad acting and effects are a given on that network's home-grown films.Where "The Hive" improves over most of their flicks was in the story. The idea of an ants as individual cells in a larger brain, so that the colony can become self-aware and even sentient, is pretty novel, and was fairly well-handled. This revelation followed closely on the discovery that the ants had developed new physical tricks like working together to form huge tentacles. These tentacles could have been overdone (and later were) but were very effective in a couple of surprisingly subdued scenes; a field of writhing giant ant tentacles (which might have been expected to attack but instead were shown just looming ominously) was satisfyingly creepy. Coupled with a pretty cool ant-zapping ray gun, fairly plausible environmental suits for the exterminator / special forces team, and some good location shots and it's enough to keep me watching (if there's nothing better on.) Now, the gripes. First off, while bees come in hives, ants form colonies, so the whole title is wrong. Secondly, people who use the words "telemetry" and "species" in daily life would likely know how to pronounce them, not as "teleMETry" or "spee-shees." The subplot of Bill (Wopat) having an ant in his ear biting down every now and then to access his nervous system seemed to be forgotten; after all the foreshadowing I kept expecting the ants to exercise some kind of control, but the only effect was for Bill to drop into an occasional stupor or jerk like a dog with a shock collar, both of which were well within Wopat's acting abilities. The native Thai extras (only a little less talented than the main cast) were used in two ways: to walk past the camera or to run in terror past the camera. In both cases they looked mainly bored, and a little embarrassed.Finally (and worst of all) the writers seemed in the end to not know what to do with their promising storyline. The gradual revelation of the ants' physical and mental abilities was pretty effectively done (and who could have resisted having the ants form a giant ant that stamps on a human?) but the ant-based computer pushed the limits of even my generous tolerance for BS. The final reveal (that the whole thing was caused by aliens) was just a let-down.Overall, "The Hive" isn't great cinema, but it's worth a look, if just for the schlock factor. It's definitely one of the better of the Sci-Fi originals (talk about a low standard!) Keep your expectations realistic, and you won't be too disappointed.

HighPockets59 I don't know why I keep attempting to watch a film made by the Sci-Fi network. Somehow, I think that just maybe this one will be decent. But, as usual, it sucks! When will I learn? You can bet that when you hear the announcement, "An original Sci-Fi film" it will be the usual lame story line. Some painfully bad CGI creation of a killer creature (super sized snakes and reptiles seem to be the favorites) attacking a group isolated, stranded idiots. And when I say "painfully bad CGI", it truly is painful to watch. ("I confess, just turn the channel!") I've seen better effects from the original Nintendo games! What I find even sadder is that some of the stars who sign up for these catastrophes are ones that "I thought" were on the fast track to great careers. Actors like, Stephen Baldwin, Michael Pare, Casper Van Dien & Dean Cane to name a few seem to keep reappearing in these features. I like to think that maybe they new managers or that there is just no quality work going on.But, you can always count on the Sci-Fi channel to be in production of another low budget cookie cutter flick. I guess you gotta take what work you can get. Unfortunately, I believe that starring in these films is just going to keep you starring in these films. So you can kiss the Oscar goodbye!!!! "The Night of the Lepus", now there's a good cheesy I could enjoy over and over again. And that starred Janet Leigh, Deforest Kelly and Stuart Whitman.....what bet did they lose?

homecoming8 "The Hive" is a TV-movie, made for the sci-fi channel, so the product qualities are not great to begin with, since the budget is limited. That really shows off in the cheap and bad CGI-effects, they won't even fool a blind dog. The story is on the other hand not boring, with little dialogue and enough action. It even starts off promising, but it takes a lot of stupid turns along the way. "We Won"t Negotiate With Ants !", I think that quote says it all. Like in the classic "Starship Troopers" they made their critters "smart", but it doesn't work here and is rather laughable. The totally unknown cast is not bad (not great either), and I watched it 'til the end. So 3 out of 10, could be worse, but do not expect anything really good.