A Disappointing Continuation

I gave this film a 9 out of 10, because it was exactly what I expected it to be.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

After watching a movie, I always like to take a moment to contemplate about what I've learned from my viewing. "The Hive" taught me that if ants would ever grow self-aware of their capacities and become more organized, the human race wouldn't stand a chance for survival. That is of course the case for every insect species on this planet, if you think about it. Well, except maybe for ladybugs, because what are they going to do? Cute us to death? "The Hive" is an almost entirely computer engineered and made-for-TV creature feature about killer ants, so you know to keep your expectations rather low. On a slightly more positive note, the plot here is most similar to the underrated 70's Sci-Fi/horror gem "Phase IV", and that just happens to be the best killer ant movie ever accomplished. That particular gem also presented the hypothesis that ants, suddenly and without apparent reason, began to control and develop their intelligence with disastrous consequences for mankind. In sheer contrast to "Phase IV", however, "The Hive" lacks any sense of subtlety and plausibility. There were the 70's movie was thought-provoking and genuinely disturbing, the development of the ants in this movie is just ludicrous and exaggeratedly blown out of proportions. Set in rural Thailand, an entire region is suddenly overrun by an enormous and aggressive colony of millions and millions of ants – even different subspecies are combining their forces – that in a very short time span devour harvests, cattle and even poor villagers. The ants structure their mobility, plan their attacks, learn to set death traps and even send a spy into the brain of a hired exterminator. Later on, they even build some sort of central computer entirely out of ants and generate their own electricity. How brilliant is that? The government hires the world famous Thorax extermination team. They wear cool outfits, drive in macho hummers and use highly advanced bazookas that disintegrate a couple of hundred ants at once. This still isn't efficient enough, though, so the team leader has to go to the ants' headquarters in an island cave and "negotiate" with them. Yes, that's exactly how retarded this movie is. But hey, no further complaints from my side regarding the film's entertainment factor. Any dumb horror movie that opens with a sequence in which a mother and her three-month old infant are savagely eaten by insects is guaranteed to enjoy my full attention. "The Hive" suffers from too many boring sequences and an overload of wannabe intellectual dialogs, but the ants attacks are campy good fun. Additional warning: don't sit around and wait to see the seemingly cute girl with the impressive rack that is illustrated on the DVD cover. She doesn't appear and the film and, in fact, it doesn't contain any sleaze or nudity whatsoever. Bummer!

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?

Scifi channel TV movie is pretty good for films of this sort. Its the story of a hive of rampaging ants in the South American Jungle and the team of scientists that go to fight them. Naked Jungle its not with high Tech suits and weapons, not to mention a "twist" behind the attacks. Sure its filled with lots of CGI, but its handled better than most films of this sort. Just serious enough to keep it from falling into bad parody and to keep you interested. Utterly enjoyable in the brain dead sit on the couch on a rainy afternoon sort of way...or in my case on in the background as I clean my room.Worth a bucket of popcorn and a soda.

"ants that crawl fast enough to catch running humans, and even give an SUV a run for its money"Yeah, that's the good of it, but not all, the whole movie is full of surprises like that, where can you find such a crooked story? would you prefer an ant-attack movie where the ants are just ants, they act like ants, attack villages like ants, and at the end died like ants? I think i have seen that kind of movie once or twice... also with spiders... bees... piranhas... snakes... next would be elephants?The only reason for voting the movie with a 9, not reaching the top 10 mark, is the predictable ending, i would have enjoyed quite a lot more an ending according with the rest of the movie.So, for me, TOP 25 more enjoyable and original movie ever! Anyway, i have to admit that this is not a movie for straight minded people but a movie for free thinkers, people who have an open mind, an imagination that let them think and live beyond the boredom of the day by day life!