It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.
... View MoreGreat movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,
... View MoreIt isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.
... View MoreThe movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.
... View More"Transmorphers: Fall of Man," even by Asylum standards, qualifies as execrable from fade-in to fade-out. This obvious but egregious knock-off of Hasbro's "Transformers" franchise scrapes the bottom of the barrel, especially with its lackluster transmorphing effects. What modicum of value that this terrible tale possesses is the result of Bruce Boxleitner's presence as a policeman who wears his pistol on his left hip and has little use for cell phones. Everybody else, even Jennifer Rubin, deliver horrible performances. Indeed, they hit their marks and utter their dialogue without a shred of credibility. Director Scott Wheeler and scenarist/co-star Shane Van Dyke display little imagination in this prequel to Leigh Scott's "Transmorphers" (2005)and furnish nothing in the way of humor. The giant robots that menace our heroes appear to be fresh out of a pawn shop. Mind you, unlike the "Transformers" franchise, these giants boast no personality and their transformations are nothing to brag about.
... View MoreOh Asylum, why do I continue to try and watch your films. I mean, sure Paranormal Entity was descent and Gacy house wasn't that bad, but everything else I've seen is just so bad. Battle Of Los Angelas I couldn't even finish, Monster made me angry, and I literally didn't take in any of The day the earth Stopped. And now we have Transmorphers 2, prequel to trasmorphers (which I've only seen the Bad Movie Beatdown of).Well, where to begin, to be honest, this review should be short, because the film is so completely forgettable. First of all the story is just stupid, but hey, I can get over that. The special effects range from "Meh" to terrible, and the acting isn't good. The film also seems to rip off more of the first Transformers and the Terminator. And the worst part of the movie is that it is boring. I literally wanted to turn it off 20 minutes in. Some may defend it, well at least it's short, and at least it didn't cost 200,000,000 dollars. So what, if a movie sucks, it still sucks.The way I see it, the only reason anyone would like this movie is either they are related to/worked on the movie. Or you hate Transformers 2 with so much passion, I don't mean just hate it, no, I mean call it the worst movie you've ever seen. In other words, Spoony and his loyal followers. F**k this movie.1.5/10
... View MoreI was going to give this movie 8/10, putting it on par with ZOMBIE OUTBREAK, BUGS BUGS BUGS OH NO, and THE English PATIENT - all strong entrants in their respective genres.This would have been because Bruce Box-lightener is a personal hero of mine. As a collector of white and/or empty boxes, a man who spends his time making boxes lighter (in either sense of the word!) is really making my day. Every single day.I owe Bruce so much.However, during this film his character makes an uncharacteristically stupid decision to kill himself in order to destroy and already incapacitated Transmorpher. This is unbelievable. YES, Bruce attempted suicide in Babylon 5, but ALSO this was for a good reason AND he was brought back to life. Was it so much to ask for him to be brought back to life in this movie?! I can only assume they stopped being able to pay him his monies, which would be substantially large amounts of monies, as he is very talented.I cannot believe a man like this exist: both lightening boxes and also acting so well.I am so sad about this movie I had a little funeral for Bruce. I put a very small and very light box in a toy helicopter and it was sad.This movie breaks your heart. Stay away unless you are an emo and like to feel bad.
... View MoreMovie titles can not be copyrighted . This is why The Asylum , the film company that has a monopoly on " mockbusters " can get away with bringing out film titles that are almost identical to Hollywood blockbusters . What is amazing is that they use ideas and designs that are so obviously based on other movies . It's well known that Harlan Ellison sued Jemes Cameron claiming that THE TERMINATOR ripped off a couple of episodes that Ellison scripted for THE OUTER LIMITS . Cameron and Hemdale Films settled out of court though if you've seen the episodes in question you might be shocked that anyone considered Cameron is supposed to have stolen anyone's idea . Indeed if the film resembles anything it's the 1972 DOCTOR WHO story Day Of The Daleks and Louis Marks didn't feel the need to go running to a lawyer .. Knowing this you will find yourself asking why Cameron amongst others didn't feel the need to contact lawyers to make an undeserved fast buck ? Perhaps they did but thought better of it since they felt that'd be similar to beating up a man in a wheelchair ? It's not so much the TRANSMORPHERS that gives away the plot but :TRANSMORPHERS 2 : FALL OF MAN Has anyone noticed it seems rather similar to :TERMINATOR 3 : RISE OF THE MACHINES And this is what the film essentially is - a blatant reworking of TERMINATOR 3 with TRANSFORMERS , MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE and HALOWEEN 3 SEASON OF THE WITCH thrown in to the predictable , unoriginal mix . We have a scene where a satellite dish turns in to a terminator and you are absolutely left in no doubt what so ever that it's a terminator . Same as later on a car turns in to a transformer and you can't help shouting " Transmorphers other films in disguise Despite the amount of " intellectual property borrowing " going on it's the production values and storytelling that bring the film down . Everything has to be force fed to the audience as in Character A : Wow , we're dealing with a technical complicated thingy Character B : what's a technical complicated thingy ? Character C : It's a thing that's technical and complicated with the lines being spoken in the most uninterested dispassionate way possible . Boxleitner and Rubin are fairly well known and give the least worst performances in a cast who are attractive but laughably wooden . I looked up the ensemble cast genuinely expecting their resumes to have included what is euphemistically known as " adult films " but found very few of the cast have appeared in more than a handful of unknown movies . I doubt if any of the cast will go on to major roles I'll be honest here and state that TRANSMORPHERS 2 is a very mediocre film but no more or less than that , though admittedly the good concepts are culled from other superior movies . The SyFy channel in Britain is showing a week of mockbuster films and it's by no means the worst one I've seen . Sadly something tells me SyFy will be broadcasting films much worse
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