Waste of time

This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

Pretty Good

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

When I discovered a copy of this British movie at my local library, I was intrigued because the British film industry seldom makes movies like this. But upon watching it, I found out why the UK film industry seldom makes movies like this. I will give this to the movie - for what had to have been a limited budget, some of the special effects aren't that bad. Some are actually pretty good. The other parts of the movie do have the feel of a limited budgeted British television drama, though that didn't bother me too much. The main problem with the movie is with its script. I could look past the fact that the story seems to have been greatly inspired by the John Christopher "Tripods" books. But this telling of the same basic theme sorely lacks a lot of explanation. We don't really know how this society works, like how people get food or what they are expected to do imprisoned in their homes. It's also never really explained how one of the youths suddenly gets a connection with the robot invaders. If the movie could have gone into detail about things like those, I think it could have been really interesting. Another problem, though, is that the drama is kind of dull. A few more action sequences could have helped, as well as adding some real convincing emotion and character development during the quieter moments. While the movie is a Hollywood blockbuster wannabe, it falls quite short in its aim, and it isn't surprising that apparently no American distributor felt it was worth releasing to American theaters.

This is a terrible movie. I couldn't even make fun of it. It's like a really bad episode of the Twilight Zone. If you are a sci-fi fan, the story and subsequent plot holes will infuriate you.The most exciting part of the story is the war of 11 days in which the Robot Overlords managed to conquer humanity. This pinnacle event is told and not shown in 3 lines of text over a black background.Flash forward to the dystopian future where humanity has been placed under house arrest for 4 years. Cabin fever is at a peak as humanity struggles by being fit, apparently well fed, cleanly groomed with access to showers, beauty products, and laundered, tailored designer clothing. How will humanity escape their implants which may or may not do something? How do our heroes not suffer permanent damage from being repeatedly electrocuted? What is the robot master plan?Use your imagination, you will probably come up with something better

This is one of the biggest piles of awfulness I had ever seen. And that is really saying a lot considering how many terrible movies I have had to suffer through in the last couple years. The only one percent redeeming factor in this was Ben Kingsley, who got killed off in the end (for no good reason I will add). The plot makes less sense than something a two year old would write and you can hardly watch more than a second before you want to shot whoever made this. Not only did I hate every picosecond of this, but every picosecond got worse than the last one through to the point where I wanted to vomit all over my floor. The effects would have been amazing say in cave men days but are laughable today. And the romance (yes there is some) is so bad that there is no lead in to any of it and makes the romance in Birdemic looked fleshed out. I expected a dumb fun time but instead I came out wanting to watch Movie 43 again. Yeah, that bad. Avoid this with YOUR LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!

We all love a great big robot with a throbbing piece (I meant a gun)and this film has them – by the bucket load – or is that 'circuit board load? Set in the UK (actually filmed mostly in Northern Ireland) we have been invaded by huge robots – who just like politicians 'never lie'. They are here to study all life forms and have imposed a curfew on all humans – except the Quisling types who actively collaborate – led by a sneeringly objectionable Ben Kingsley. ** Plot Spoiler a bit further down** People are monitored by some sort of electronic tag that alerts the nasty machines if you do anything naughty and they come after you. Well if you are caught doing anything these robots don't like then you are sort of vaporised. Then the heroes – all kids – discover how to turn their tags off (like some of the crims we currently do this to). Then off they go on their plucky way to reunite families, start a resistance and save the world!Is this any good though? Well no its utter rubbish and it knows it and that is why it is great fun. On the check list there are all the ingredients. • An unambiguously evil enemy? –Check. • Over the top performances straight out of Victorian melodrama? – Check. • Some big names? – Check and double check – Gillian 'X Files' Anderson is the mum! • References to how great Britain used to be? –Check – even got a Spitfire!! • Ludicrous stunts that defy death and gravity? – Completely Check! • Pesky kids straight out of Scooby Doo? – Just keep those checks coming.But as I said it does all this on purpose and so it is not only forgivable it is actually endearing, you can watch this with the kids, mind you they may say you need to watch something more adult. Also it is a perfect length at 90 minutes – for some good old fashioned sciency fictiony fun, then you can't go far wrong with this.