Boobirt Stylish but barely mediocre overall

Softwing Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

Ogosmith Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

mich-leclair There is a dullness to this film that leaves one exhausted and somewhat irritated. The art direction is quite dull. The dialogue is repetitive to the point of being dull. The characters are extremely boring--one might even say dull. As a matter of fact, after viewing this, I had a tremendous urge to watch "Mr. BLANDings Builds his Dream House." Don't know why. Honestly, after hearing the actors yak for about a half hour, I found myself saying aloud, "Oh why don't you shut up!"Fans of poor choices will love this film. Others, not so much.

airsnob You know.. Sometimes they have a great idea, good cast, even a budget, and they could have had a great movie, and instead produce a mediocre one. All because of a few tiny mistakes, a couple dumb choices, and boom. A failure. This movie could have been great. It could have been the next Thing. This movie is totally gross. It's totally going to creep you out no matter what. It's totally disgusting. It will turn even a Nurses stomach. ( mine) OK so let's talk about what made it lame. They took away the realism of it by making the actors do really stupid things that no one could ever rationalize away. With movies , we have to believe what we are seeing. When actors do probably the dumbest Things ever , we can't excuse it. I think filmmakers make this mistake , because they are trying to extend the suspense. With this movie they didn't have to do that. Like for instance. The Doctor knows there is a bug infestation. Yet, when the students and his daughter show up at the lab with the infected polar bear, he neglects to tell them anything and doesn't tell them to stay away from the polar bear. Why? Then, for some reason, another doctor shoots everyone because she is obviously dying of the big infestation and drives to the lab and super infects everyone. Just in case they weren't infected yet. This movie really suffered from those dumb ass choices. The graduate students who can't seem to figure anything out either really perturbed me. We of course , figured it all out right away . With as much info as they had. Brilliant graduate students that are as dumb as rocks. Uh huh. How about the mourning scientist girl that just needs to wipe away the green vomit from the ladies mouth? And then even attempt CPR. I think any dimwit or scientist esp would know to stay the hell away from anyone as sick as that as soon as they showed up. Isn't that just every day logic? But then pretty boy with the gun, he just really did the movie in. He was so Dumb, that I think we all just wouldn't have knocked him out asap. And then tied him up. Anyways. If you want to watch what would happen if a bunch of really dumb people found a new species of bug that devoured humans go ahead. It's good for a lot of gross out moments. Anyways.

Jason Voorhees This movie has fallen into the same pitfall so many other potentially good horror movies have fallen into. A lack of characters you could careless about. Its hard to care about the plot nor the message being sent if all you want to do it get to the end of the movie asap.Watching idiots making brainless selfish choices maybe realistic but its not what I go to watch for horror movie entertainment. If you want realism you already have it, why pay to see this crap.Its sad to see talent like Val being wasted on this trash, thank god for digital movies for now we can fast forward and skip and whatever else. Real waste of effort making the movie, real waste of time watching it. Dawg gone awful! Although the bugs eating the polar bear was good for a giggle.

PippinInOz I did persevere for 20 minutes, then just could not stand any more.....1. Shockingly bad dialogue2. Cliché upon cliché upon - yep - more cliché. Stroppy teenage daughter, Val Kilmer doing a 'Val Kilmer' ie. Sleepwalking through this role - not that you can blame him. I would need strong sedatives indeed to get through this.3. I disagree with the reviewer here who thought this was 'left wing' - oh contrare! This is a right wing depiction of the Environmental movement, why else would these people be depicted as such complete eejits? The ideology is in the representation. Mysteries of film fame Number 1: What precisely happens to some actors? Yes, I know Val Kilmer was never a Robert De Niro, but he was okay wasn't he? Suddenly, his name on the Cast list connotes an instant warning in my brain: 'Ooer - this might be very bad indeed....' and he never disappoints. His ex - wife Joanna Walley is the same. See her name on the Cast list? Probably it is not too good. Did they have some hard partying years in the later 80s / 90s when their decision making skills went amiss? Did they share a Manager who couldn't read a script? Did they stop caring? Whatever the answers to this pressing question, I can assure you that any time wasted watching this rubbish you will not get back. That bad? Sadly yes.