The Swarm Reviews

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.

Slow but Watchable

A film to watch when there is nothing to do. Very slow to get going but an interesting and entertaining story. A great film to watch and see the difference in special effects to this date.

Not the best but good enough.

The Bees, watch out for the Bees

This is a brilliant film with Michael Caine, and is one of his good acting days involving the rising threat of the dreaded "African" killer bees that are hunting people down in America.

It is well worth watching, as it gives you an insight to what America and Mexico will have to face in the future, as well as seeing a good storyline being portrayed on screem by some well known actors.

It's BEES, what do you need to know? Stormer of a disaster flick and scared me witless as a kid, still one of my faves today!

awful

Absolutely awful, not scary. would have been better to do a remake and cert it an 18 and make it a lot more hair raising! You just can't take this one seriously as it is...

Bee Warned!

Terrible, absolutely terrible. I rented this expecting a fun disaster movie romp. What I got was a po faced mess that seems to go on and on. At least 40 mins could have been cut from this film.

Irvin Allen can make good movies -The Towering Inferno - but this is just a tedious mess.

Pretty damn Dire!!

Good in so far that it allows for plenty of Schadenfreude at what must be the lowest eb of Caines career!

You can count the tension on one finger. Bad acting, over the top story line, plot holes...it has them all.

However, I did watch it to the end, not least because of some funny one liners, but also for the ham fisted antics of the flamethrowers at the end.

A must see for once - but only once!!!

Caine classic

This film crams every cliche of the disaster genre into its action packed minutes - marvel as the bees derail a crowded train, thrill as they attack and blow up a nuclear power station. Poorly written, laughable dialogue stuffed with bizarre exposition, classic 'acting' from the master of tat Michael Caine, giant bee hallucination sequences and swarms of 'bees' that seem to actually be airborne raisins or something make this the most cheesy and fun disaster movie ever, even better than the Airport one where Mig jets pursue Concorde across the Atlantic.