Bee afraid. Bee very afraid...

Brilliant, gripping, engrossing, and superb are all words that appear in The Oxford English Dictionary. Unfortunately none of them apply to this amateurish mess.

Other words, words like wooden, absurd, laughable, juvenile, and embarrassing are far more appropriate. Caine, Widmark and their partners in crime should have been sent to an old offenders institution for inflicting this turkey on an unsuspecting public.

In real life bees are scary. Swarms of bees are even scarier. Swarms of killer African bees are pant-wettingly scary. So how this film managed to make them about as frightening as greenfly takes some understanding.