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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
"We sent out a message of peace - 5 years later, we got our answer.", 3 Sep 2008
The final battle between man and machine begins - allegedly!
The story centres around a war between humans and a race of alien robots who have conquered earth. Responding to the message from one of the Voyager Space probes, the alien robots track the signal back and invade and for the last few centuries the last of the human race have been fighting back against them.
Humans now live deep underground in a city and make raids on the machines when they can. When a mission to capture a Z-Bot, in order to download a virus into its power core thereby disabling all of them goes wrong, the council have to take a convicted criminal out of cryogenic hibernation to lead the second attempt.
Cue an endless series of chases through dark wastelands, corny dialogue and special effects that would look more at home in a 1980's Atari game and you begin to see what the film is like.
Transmorphers is one of those films that you wish was so bad that it was good - but it's not. It's just bad. I wouldn't even call this a B-Movie as, quite frankly, that would be insulting to B-Movies everywhere.
The writers have borrowed ideas from so many other sci-fi films it comes out like a bizarre mix of all your favourites with none of the things that made them great. The acting is terrible, no-one has the capacity to emote and they're about as convincing as a puppet.
The robots themselves are quite nice but having borrowed heavily from Transformers (see what they did with the title of the movie - oh, the cunning wit!) and Macross they are nothing spectacular. Its a shame that the rather small budget didn't allow for better work. It may have been more sensible to have less robots and spend a little more on making them look good as opposed to the rather computer game graphics and movements that we get in the film.
End of the day, try watching Robot Jox as it's miles better than this and the mechs look better too. I never though I'd see the day when I'd be praising that film for something.
In the end, its a quick way to kill 90 minutes but I'm sure most of you who watch this will want that 90 minutes back.
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3 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
why can't i rate zero!!!!, 18 Dec 2007
seriously man, is the director that inept that he cannot write a film that isn't a blatant rip-off of others? i could write better than this and i'm not a filmmaker. here is what is crap about this offering:
Blatant rip-off, i can't stress this enough.
Bad c.g, really bad, it's like watching a frigging spectrum game from the 80's.
please do not rent, buy or illegally download this film, save your money and your eyes, as you will be scratching them out after this drivel.
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2 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
THIS IS BAD, WELL IT'S BEYOND BAD, 8 Jan 2008
I can't help but laugh at this pathetic excuse for a movie. It is more similar to a "Battleship Troopers" than "Transformers" in my opinion. It is one of the worst movies ever made, hands down, honestly. It is not even fun, it is just bad. First off I would like to say I enjoy B-movies and usually the worse they are, the better I like them. I also enjoy most Asylum movies and I think "Frankenstein Reborn" is a classic & I like movies like "Beastmaster" to "Dark Crystal" to "Halloween"...so you can see how my taste in movies are.
So, usually I should enjoy a movie like this, right? Wrong. This is not a fun movie to watch(only if your drunk and want to make fun of a truly awful movie, but even then it is too dull to enjoy at all), it is very bland and dark. There are only 3 sets in the whole movie. The funniest part is when they are riding on these space bikes..Hahahahahaha The special effects stink & the computer animation would have been considered bad in the early 90's. The sound was bad & there was a lapse of a second with the voice over like a really bad Chinese Kung fu movie and I hate to sound repetitive, but Hahahahhahaha!!! Also, the acting was incredibly awful.
A movie like this could have worked, if they would have made it take place on earth instead of a dark worn torn battleground and some ship. This could have been more interesting to see it as more of a "Predator" type of movie or a horror movie where the robots terrorized civilians & fought a USA army. But honestly it is a real shame for Asylum to even put there label on this.
There are no positives to talk about, the robots don't even look cool, they could of at least gave them a cool face, I really have nothing left to say, except it truly sucks. Please only rent this...do not buy this! I repeat do not buy this!!
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