Must See Movie...

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

I picked this title up in a Dollar General bin, which is something I enjoy doing to find bad movies. This one isn't bad.It's British... which pleasantly surprised me (I had read nothing about this movie obviously), the humor was Britsih, settings British... how refreshing to not see a Sci-Fi movie set in a big city... just normal people.It had Gillian Anderson which is never a bad thing.The story was simple, and the ending obvious, but still... It was fun, the effects weren't bad, the dialogue had humor and Ben Kingsly as a bad guy made me smile.It's 90 minutes of unpretentious fun, try it.

Don't waste any time - except you want to show your students how it's not done. The film is terrible on more than one level. There is no excuse for poor craftsmanship. The script seems to be pieced together by taking parts from other movies. But not in a respectable way by honoring other's ideas, they're just taken. The directing is so bad, even a Ben Kingsley looks bad. Don't let the producers pull this off - nobody needs more of this.There are a lot of ideas in the script that are never fully explained - almost like in poorly crafted video games. The story would allow some suspense. But most of the time a solution pops up prematurely taking any kind of suspense there might have been. And please have the so called director attend a class on how to develop a character before letting him do anything like this again. There are some promising moments - so maybe that could put him on the right track.

Or something along those lines. Though to be fair, younger audiences won't care much about some of the downfalls of this movie and will probably cherish the young characters and the plot surrounding them. It's empowering to and for them to see those kids go and be strong where adults can not be.Having said that, it will take adults a lot more to actually like this. Like being able to ignore convenient things just happening like that. The discovery (or "inciting" incident) also seems to be too small or too obvious to have never happened before. The whole control thing (or rebelling against) may be a hint at rebellion in general (and growing up and all the things one has to go through), but it's not well connected. The effects are OK, the story is really full of clichés to say the least

Robot Overlords...a look at the poster made me expect something along the lines of Sharknado or some Z-level movie. Oh wait...it's got Ben Kingsley and Gillian Anderson...in a cheap movie about alien Robots. Huh? OK, it wasn't supercheap with a budget of 21m$ but the VFX look like they tried their best but they just don't look real (but not bad either). The thing is: the story is nothing special, in fact it's rather lame. So one has to wonder why Anderson & Kingsley wanted to play in this. They both must have lots of bills to pay I guess. I can't imagine they read the script and jumped on their phone to convince their agent to get them a part in the film. We can conclude that this film hardly adds anything to the genre, the acting is okay and the effects aren't bad but it really does not stand out in any way so I find it hard to recommend this flick.