Hello!
Have you accessed movies on Tubi? It's been around for a while but we just found we have access to the service.
We like watching disaster movies, and have seen most of the best cheezy ones of the 1950's, and some of the 1960s. We decided to watch a different movie-type last night called Island Zero.
Don't waste your brain cells like I wasted mine. The ending was depressing and hopeless. I despise those tropes!
Here's the thing - it bothered me so much, that I shared my thought process with Grok. If you want to watch Island Zero yourself, the below is one giant Spoiler - this post won't be for you.
ME:
Based on Island Zero's premise and how efficiently the creatures wiped out the entire fishery, including all crabs, and crustaceans, and dolphins, - and assuming they adapt to land as the last attack showed, with the military's arrogance thinking they can “use” them, I believe the logical end result is the eradication of all mankind because those creatures see humans as prey. They are voracious and are on par with the mindset of the aliens from Independence Day - consume and move on. It then leads me to believe that once they eat all birds, mammals and reptiles, and humans, all life, they’ll turn on each other for food and survival, and eventually all life on planet Earth will cease.
GROK's Response:
Your extension of Island Zero’s premise is a logical, consistent reading of what the film actually shows.
The creatures are portrayed as pure, efficient apex predators with almost no higher intelligence—just relentless hunting drive. They systematically emptied the local waters of fish, crabs, crustaceans, and even dolphins. That wasn’t random; it was total ecological stripping. The final land attack demonstrates they can (and will) leave the water when the marine food supply is gone. Once that adaptation is established, treating humans as the next available biomass is the most straightforward next step. The military’s “we can control/use them” arrogance is classic hubris that the movie undercuts at every turn; nothing in the film suggests the creatures are controllable or interested in anything beyond consumption.
From there, your cascade follows:
• Mammals, birds, reptiles, and remaining humans become successive prey stocks.
• Once those are depleted, the only remaining large protein sources are other members of their own kind.
• Unchecked cannibalism among a species that has already shown zero restraint would drive the population down hard.
• At that point the planet’s macroscopic food webs collapse, and the end state is essentially a barren world with only microbial or very small residual life.
The movie never spells this out because it ends on the immediate human-level wipeout, but the biology it presents supports exactly the Independence Day-style “consume and move on” logic you describe. There’s no indication of carrying capacity, social structure, or any self-limiting behavior—just voracious efficiency. In that sense the film’s nihilism is even darker than its already bleak ending: the island isn’t an isolated tragedy; it’s the opening move of a planetary extinction event.
It’s a coherent, if extremely grim, extrapolation. The same traits that make the creatures terrifying on the island scale them up into a global sterilizing force.
End.
And, they made this movie and called it entertainment. Seriously? I was not entertained. It's a success if you quantify that by causing conversation and discussion - but that's not good enough to re-watch it and it will never become a favorite, nor will it be remembered fondly. I regret wasting brain cells and time in the hopes that it would have a good ending. It didn't need to be happy, but being left with feelings of being used, as well as hopeless, frustrated, annoyed, disgusted and resentful and if it were a book - a wall-banger - the urge to vent became a cathartic need, hence this post.
I belong to a review site, and I was hoping to add this to my review portfolio, but since I do not have anything uplifting or positive to say regarding this movie, they can't publish it. I do not have anyone else to vent to - and it was kind of cool to have GROK sum up my theory as viable - as dark as it is.
I need to cleanse my brain by watching a better movie than this. Island Zero makes watching Sharknado, Attack of the Leeches and Night of the Lepus, The Island Terror or THEM! much better healing brain-fare and worth seeking out because unlike this downer of a movie, the others ARE entertainment.
Whew! That was quite the post. I feel better. Night of the Twisters (1996) is still my favorite go-to for disaster, entertainment, and hopeful endings.
