the bone snatcher start out extremely promising and with the introduction of a new and original type of unseen evil as well a with the use of the sublimely isolated film location of the african desert . whilst check pipeline out in the desert and three miner be attack and kill by a seemingly unworldly creature that devour their flesh and only leave a pile of half eaten bone . the expedition crew send to rescue them discovers that the monster be a superiorly mutate ant queen and and pretty soon they find themselves trap in the uncanny desert as well . director jason wulfsohn sustain a respectable level of tension just until the nature of the monster be identify . immediately after that and the film rapidly turn into an ordinary creature feature with all the character drop out of the survival race one by one . the second half of the bone snatcher be unendurably bore while with the inevitable love story clichés as well a a complete absence of gory murder set piece . the character all be insufferable stereotype that act and say exactly what you predict several minute in advance . there the rookie who have to prove himself and the female with brain capacity apart from her hot look and the obnoxious experienced guy who redeem himself at the end through self sacrifice and last but not least who could forget the wise black guy who refer to the monster use all kind of voodoo name . wulfsohn try too hard to make his monster look like the outer space menace of alien and predator . the ant creature have infrared vision and crumbles when shot at and yawn . the movie actually just benefit from it unique setting and the handful of nasty image of decomposed body . this could have be a modest gem and but instead it less than mediocre . avoid .