This is a filler movie. The kind you watch when you want something mindless that you don't have to think about. But also the kind that afterwards you want to scream why did they do this or that.
PLOT. Simplistic. Humans against robots. Robot develop their own AI and go rogue.
SETTING. Very odd. Clearly a small mainly deserted town and the filming location does call it a ghost town. I loved that having been through similar small deserted town in the prairies. But then we see them in industrial warehouse areas that are inconsistent with the initial setting.
ACTING. Overall good. I've only seen the lead in other things but none of them really stand out. The Commander was over-the-top but not as bad as I thought he would be from the trailer.
CGI. Some times it is excellent. In fact a few times I wondered if they had made a working model of some of the robots. But then other times the CGI was just bad.
QUIRKS. By quirks, I mean things that make you wonder why it was in the movie. How could the screenwriters be so obtuse to not understand the problem? So some things such as:
Subplot with a female soldier who kills another soldier and then is killed herself. We have nothing in the plot line to explain that. Plus she seems to have been there for awhile but they powers to be don't seen to care. Plus she killed the male soldier in the same building were there are a line of "heads" for the android to use. But none of that goes anywhere.
No tech until the tech guy shows up and now they have the machines to remove the chips, laptops etc. And if the tech was working there and was thrown out into the town from the command centre then you'd think forcing back into the centre would make sense.
Subplot with the android that goes no where. We rarely see him. He foolishly leads them to a building with MECS and more powerful weapons. He really has no role but a large device to turn off the humans which you'd think they would have noticed on him before this. After all it was too big for a pocket. Plus why would you build such huge machines if you had the skill to make androids so life-like the other humans could not identify them. That would be the more useful weapon.
I'm giving the movie too much thought - more than the Director or screen writers. It's worth a watch to see the small town setting and wonder why the plot is so all over the place.
PLOT. Simplistic. Humans against robots. Robot develop their own AI and go rogue.
SETTING. Very odd. Clearly a small mainly deserted town and the filming location does call it a ghost town. I loved that having been through similar small deserted town in the prairies. But then we see them in industrial warehouse areas that are inconsistent with the initial setting.
ACTING. Overall good. I've only seen the lead in other things but none of them really stand out. The Commander was over-the-top but not as bad as I thought he would be from the trailer.
CGI. Some times it is excellent. In fact a few times I wondered if they had made a working model of some of the robots. But then other times the CGI was just bad.
QUIRKS. By quirks, I mean things that make you wonder why it was in the movie. How could the screenwriters be so obtuse to not understand the problem? So some things such as:
Subplot with a female soldier who kills another soldier and then is killed herself. We have nothing in the plot line to explain that. Plus she seems to have been there for awhile but they powers to be don't seen to care. Plus she killed the male soldier in the same building were there are a line of "heads" for the android to use. But none of that goes anywhere.
No tech until the tech guy shows up and now they have the machines to remove the chips, laptops etc. And if the tech was working there and was thrown out into the town from the command centre then you'd think forcing back into the centre would make sense.
Subplot with the android that goes no where. We rarely see him. He foolishly leads them to a building with MECS and more powerful weapons. He really has no role but a large device to turn off the humans which you'd think they would have noticed on him before this. After all it was too big for a pocket. Plus why would you build such huge machines if you had the skill to make androids so life-like the other humans could not identify them. That would be the more useful weapon.
I'm giving the movie too much thought - more than the Director or screen writers. It's worth a watch to see the small town setting and wonder why the plot is so all over the place.