Far Horizons: Tales of Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Horror. Issue #18 September 2015 | Page 51

The film does have problems. While elements of the
plot—like the exact nature of the emerging intelligence—can remain opaque without harming the story,
other elements are legitimately holes. It is unclear why
Hubbs, who has sufficient evidence of what mankind is facing early on, refuses to contact the outside
world and alert them to the danger. He is presented as
switching from rational to obsessed with little transition. It is never made clear how the ants know which
pieces of equipment to sabotage (a point brought up
in the dialogue); while this lends some credence to the
idea that the ants have been taken over by an extraterrestrial intelligence, it is never made clear that this
is the case. And the finale, whether the one from the
the