Us
Captain Marvel
Widows
The Walking Dead
Log in with Facebook
OR
By creating an account, you agree to the Privacy Policy and the Terms and Policies, and to receive email from Rotten Tomatoes and Fandango.
Please enter your email address and we will email you a new password.
We want to hear what you have to say but need to verify your account. Just leave us a message here and we will work on getting you verified.
Please reference “Error Code 2121” when contacting customer service.
No consensus yet.
All Critics (17) | Top Critics (3) | Fresh (0) | Rotten (17) | DVD (3)
Periodic moments of good special effects are separated by reels of dramatic banality as players flounder in flimsy dialog and under sluggish direction. Mar 26, 2009 | Full Review…
Periodic moments of good special effects are separated by reels of dramatic banality as players flounder in flimsy dialog and under sluggish direction.
Variety Staff
It's all drastically boring. Jan 26, 2006 | Full Review…
It's all drastically boring.
The movie swarmed into local theaters yesterday; unfortunately, the insects and the people in this mélange of ersatz science-fiction and dull adventure deserve one another. May 9, 2005 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…
The movie swarmed into local theaters yesterday; unfortunately, the insects and the people in this mélange of ersatz science-fiction and dull adventure deserve one another.
A.H. Weiler
You'll be rooting for the ants. Jun 11, 2015 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…
You'll be rooting for the ants.
Matt Brunson
Laughable exploitation film results in a complete waste of time and talent. Aug 3, 2009 | Rating: 1/4 | Full Review…
Laughable exploitation film results in a complete waste of time and talent.
One of those movies that's a nailbiter for a little kid, but laughable when revisted as an adult. Oct 9, 2005 | Rating: 2/5
One of those movies that's a nailbiter for a little kid, but laughable when revisted as an adult.
Chuck O'Leary
Teaming Collins with ants is pure Bert I. Gordon. Oct 15, 2004 | Rating: 1/5
Teaming Collins with ants is pure Bert I. Gordon.
Steve Crum
Bert I. Gordon makes ant crap out of an H.G. Wells short story he loosely adapted to the big screen. Mar 19, 2004 | Rating: C | Full Review…
Bert I. Gordon makes ant crap out of an H.G. Wells short story he loosely adapted to the big screen.
Dennis Schwartz
Cheap special effects and nonexistent horror in a 'horror' flick make for one boring waste of celluloid. Feb 24, 2004 | Full Review…
Cheap special effects and nonexistent horror in a 'horror' flick make for one boring waste of celluloid.
Frank Wilkins
We interrupt this soap opera to bring you... a monster movie! Jan 30, 2003 | Rating: 1/5
We interrupt this soap opera to bring you... a monster movie!
Christopher Null
Bring on the DDT. A silly giant-bug opus with cheap special effects. Sep 18, 2002 | Rating: 1/5
Bring on the DDT. A silly giant-bug opus with cheap special effects.
Bob Bloom
What's scarier: ants or Bert I. Gordon movies? Jul 26, 2002 | Rating: 1/5
What's scarier: ants or Bert I. Gordon movies?
Scott Weinberg
The audio in Empire of the Ants is infuriating to the point of being nigh unwatchable. But on mute? By jingo you might just be onto something there.
Super Reviewer
Very poorly made, obvious allusions to Jaws, and a cast of unlikable characters. This is a really silly one that gets on your nerves a lot of the time because of the sound the creatures. There are some parts of it that make you laugh out loud with its awfulness, but that doesn't make this one a must-see, craptastic movie.
Did we really need another giant ant movie? I don't think so, skip this movie and see Them instead. This one isn't too terrible, but it's not good either.
To say that this is a cheap production would be an insult to cheap productions. It's not funny-bad or campy-bad, it's just plain bad-bad. Watch it if you must but be prepared for a healthy dose of "I told you so".
There are no approved quotes yet for this movie.
View All