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This is one box-of-rocks dumb film... possibly the stupidest sci fi film I've ever seen. Badly written and directed, badly scripted, badly acted. This flem has absolutely no redeeming factors. The lines are the most cliche, sophomoric slop I have heard in quite some time. I have never see a worse portrayal of pee-your-pants scared grown adults that couldn't survive their way out of a puppy attack. And it has the absolute worst, most unreasonable last line ever uttered in a movie. Had I known this was just more Asylum garbage at the beginning I'd have never started it.

This is by far the worse rip off of a movie that I have ever seen. There is simply nothing of substance in this movie worth saying.

Avoid, run away, dont even let kids watch it.

We two adults and our 8 and 11 year old kids all watched closely for 15 minutes then one by one we drifted off. We turned it off at the 45 minute mark, or was it 60, or 35, or...? Visually painful to watch, there's plenty else to diss but who cares about the details. If you've read this far you should know not to watch this. Quickly move on to something else like Chappie.

Odd mildly watchable effort aside, The Asylum's near-universally maligning is more than well deserved. Despite a vast majority of their films being weak or worse, many are irredeemably terrible, there is something compulsive about their badness and the curiosity as to whether they are capable of churning out a film that rises above okay. To me they have done, but very, very sporadically.

'Hornet', feeling very much derivative to the point of being a rip-off of the relatively recent 'Bumblebee' though actually released before to capitalise upon it (with the advertising there can be some very understandable confusion), is another one of their irredeemably terrible efforts. Many people hate the 'Transformers' films and 'Bumblebee' has its detractors too, but watching 'Hornet' people may find themselves appreciating those films more, certainly did so myself. Regardless of any flaws those films have, and oh there are plenty, they are nowhere near as many in quantity or as large in quality in comparison to this thing.

It's a cheap looking film for starters. Found the found footage, for me that is so overused in film and has often been executed poorly, look of the filming excessive in use and nausea-inducing when looking at it. Watched the film not reading any reviews beforehand and not expecting that, and as someone with epilepsy it made me uncomfortable, but continued to watch in order to be fair to the film. The photography and the haphazard editing just looked so amateurish and rendered some of what is going on incoherent, it looks drab too. The special effects for the titular character are very cheap and very obvious in look with inconsistent size and height and very sloppy movement. The titular character too is not a compelling one with very little personality and is not used very well.

Music is little more than a repetitive intrusive slog and there is no competence at all in the direction. None of the human characters have anything interesting or distinct about it and some of it even grate. Also having to spout some of the most cliched, dumbest, blandest and stilted gobbledegook in any of The Asylum's films and of any film in recent years. The acting has no character at all and it looked very half-hearted. There is absolutely nothing thrilling, tense, suspenseful, emotionally investable or fun about the story, or what little there was of it. What the film promises in its summary has barely any screen time and makes no impression whatsoever. The predictability may have been forgivable if the film was actually engaging let alone exciting but it fails to be either, with a severely undercooked final 20 minutes that should have excited and instead fizzles completely, and even coherence is not always a strong suit and that's putting it lightly.

Pacing is incredibly dull throughout, with no signs of any real energy, and descends far too early into intelligence-insulting ridiculousness. Complete with unintentional humour because of the excessive cheese and increasingly irritating and illogical character behaviours that makes one endear to them even less in a film with not one interesting or rootable character. It may have been slightly entertaining at first but got tiring as the film limped along with everything being executed so blandly and half-heartedly, like no effort was being made. The very sparse action is far from thrilling, confusingly choreographed, performed with no real engagement or ease with it, sloppy editing and a pedestrian pace.

Concluding, terrible. 1/10

Warning, do not watch this movie. On iTunes, the headline of the film is Bumblebee, on IMDB it is called Hornet. BIG difference. Waste of money. Bad casting and script. The Blair Witch Project-filming throughout the whole movie is just annoying.

This movie sucks so freaking bad! I can't even tell y'all how annoyed I am to have wasted my damn time and money on.

B movies can be bad, horrid, and totally stinko..."Hornet" should not be allowed to stay on our planet...Take non defined characters and blend in ZERO storyline and you end up with this...Can't sleep? Solved that problem for ya.. Stream this mush and enjoy some sweet dreams...Zzzzzz

ASYLUM productions again!! I wonder, when these guys "stop doing" what they are doing.

Movie filmed by Go Pro camera?! What next? movie filmed by cheap 8 bucks spy pen camera, maybe. All of this movie sucks-

Enjoyed the movie. Low budget, not really known actors, photography ok. Sorta like Blair Witch Project from 1999. But I actually enjoyed the movie and the story. The actors really tried, and in some scenes were outstanding. If this had been done by big film company, it would've been very successful.

Okay, so I obviously know that this isn't a great, or even that much of a good film, but I have seen movies with this type of budget, so I grade them on a curve, and with that curve, the movie isn't awful. Well the movie does feel and look cheap, and uses the found footage style seen in most independent films, it doesn't look gross, and at times can look like a real film. Not always, but the director was competent enough.

The movie's title is meant to be a misleading ripoff of the far superior film Bumblebee, but the plots are far different from each other. This one is about a group of friends who create a robot that is used to fight aliens, and that has nothing to do with the plot of Bumblebee.

The effects aren't great, but they aren't unforgivable. Hornet looks decent enough for the times he is on scene, and he doesn't look like the robot on the poster, which is misleading, but that is common for most mockbuster films.

The acting, at the start at least, is actual pretty good, as far as I'm concerned. That is until we get into the interrogation room, for whatever reason the acting quality just drops, and it is pretty jarring. Overall, the acting is better quality than what this film deserves, but it isn't without flaws.

Maybe I am more forgiving of this film because I saw it for free, but I still don't find this film to be too offensive, as I have seen plenty worse films. If you can watch it for free, give it a look, but don't spend too much money on watching it, maybe a dollar at most.

What an utter embarrassment. This is the kind of thing that your kids drag up in the future to shame you. This has to be the worst film ever. Really, 90 minutes of static would have been more interesting. Poorly scripted, poorly edited and even worse acting (if that's possible). Just wow.

HORNET is yet another Asylum rip-off, this time of the TRANSFORMERS spin-off BUMBLEBEE. They managed to push this one out three days before the blockbuster film, which is the only impressive thing about it. The story adopts a found footage format and follows the usual bland trio of characters as they discover a robot in the woods and use it to thwart an alien invasion. The halting CGI effects are slightly more passable than usual for an Asylum film, but the plotting is non-existent, and what hurts it the most are the incredibly long-winded interrogation scenes which smack of the laziest padding around.