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APEX - Advanced Prototype EXploration Unit [DVD] [1994]
 
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APEX - Advanced Prototype EXploration Unit [DVD] [1994]

DVD ~ Richard Keats
3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Richard Keats, Mitchell Cox, Lisa Ann Russell, Marcus Aurelius, Adam Lawson
  • Directors: Phillip J. Roth
  • Writers: Phillip J. Roth, Gian-Carlo Scandiuzzi, Ron Schmidt
  • Producers: Gary Jude Burkart, Gary LoConti, Jeffery Beach, Talaat Captan
  • Format: PAL
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Mia Video Entertainment Ltd
  • DVD Release Date: 19 Jun 2000
  • Run Time: 98 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00004TITX
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 42,995 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Region 2
Dolby Digital English
Dolby Digital
Interactive Menus
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Synopsis
When a probe from the future--an Advanced Prototype Extermination Unit--travels back to 1973 it lands in the wrong area and alters the course of time. A scientist tries to find it and when he returns to the future the human race is being decimated by disease and systematically hunted by armies of A.P.E.X. units.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A TVM with swearing  reasonable story..zero budget, 17 Mar 2003
This review is from: A.P.E.X. [VHS] [1993] (VHS Tape)
Nicolas Sinclair is one of the team operating the time travelling APEX (Advanced Prototype Exploration unit) in the year 2073. When one of the APEX probes is accidentally sent back to an area containing a family in 1973, a sterilisation probe is launched to destroy any chance of a time paradox. However Sinclair himself goes back to 1973 to stop the unit - but in doing so he creates a paradox and unleashes a virus. When he returns to 2073 he finds the paradox has created a new timeline where the humans are in a war with APEX units sent from hi timeline to destroy the paradox.

Have you seen Terminator - you bet your ass that Phillip J. Roth has! He certainly drew a lot of inspiration from it when he wrote this. Having said that, the story is actually alright - the whole time travel, killer robots thing has been done before, but that doesn't make it less interesting. It doesn't go anywhere unexpected but it is not as bad as you suspect it might be.

What does let the story down a little is the rest of the production. Produced by Talent Captain (strangely no Oscar nominations yet!) it seems his biggest input was to get his son cast in one of the roles. The whole thing has a TVM feel - despite the swearing and violence. The special effects are cheap and very reminiscent of a straight to video sci-fi, the locations are good if basic - only the occasional interior shot looks like cardboard. But really you can see the budget constraints up there on screen.

The tight budget goes through to the cast - they aren't great and aren't helped by some poor dialogue. Keats, Cox, Russell etc are all TVM actors but they do actually do all right considering. The APEX units themselves are mixed - they look cheap at first, but then you forget that they look cheap. But then after a while you realise that they're rubbish - they can't shoot straight at all while the humans just need one powerful hit to get them (or even a music CD!). This takes away from the tension of the film - at least with Ernie you knew without a doubt that he was one mean mother who wasn't going to miss!

Overall this has some entertaining moments but is really a TVM with attitude - catch it now on the bottom shelf of your video store....

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2.0 out of 5 stars if you are a Terminator fun, 13 Dec 2001
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Heavily influenced by The Terminator, APEX features time-travel, heavy weaponry and battle robots. The APEX units are rather strangely behaved and incredibly inaccurate with their weapons (although to its credit, the movie does claim that the firefights are occurring at distances of several hundred meters - if only the camera work backed that assertion up...) Still, it's good dumb fun.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting time travel film, 22 Oct 2008
By Mr. Jonathon T. Beckett "vampire lover" (Dracula's Crypt) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A.P.E.X. [VHS] [1993] (VHS Tape)


Scientist Nicholas Sinclair is part of a scientific team sending robot probes through time for research purposes. One is sent back to an apparently barren desert in 1973, only for a family to get lost and stray into the robots landing area. Fearful that the probe will kill the family, Sinclair attempts to destroy the robot, but to no avail. He then decides to travel back in time to save the family. When he returns back to his present, he discovers that he has altered the course of history, and the world he has returned to is a very different one to the one that he left. Sinclair must now attempt to return to the lab(set amongst ruins in this new world) to reprogramme the original experiment
This film is a bit of a paradox in itself. Whilst in the original world it carries its themes off with considerable style, and continues to do so when Sinclair travels back to 1973. Where it really comes unstuck is when Sinclair comes back to his present, only to find that his world has changed. Then it sadly becomes just a routine shoot em up with lots of big explosions and macho posturing. What a shame, as with such a strong beginning the film promised so much more.
Still, the film is crammed full of ideas and is an enjoyable enough way to spend an hour and a half. Despite its budgetary limitations, the sets and the special effects are excellent. Good fun. 3 out of 5
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4.0 out of 5 stars A good solid no brainer.....
If you like cerebral movies dont buy this film. I actually enjoyed Apex, its good silly sci-fi fun. Look out for the apex bot getting down to a rock CD.
Published 15 months ago by Mr. K. Richardson

1.0 out of 5 stars WAS IT A COMEDY?
Low budget drudge.

I laughed at one point, but then realised it was serious. My horror turned to fear and then i laughed again, i was confused and switched off.
Published 21 months ago by Nevs

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