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Monsters of Man (2020)
So much potential wasted.
OMFG. Where to start. Spoiler Alert!
Great premise, horrible execution. Let me preface this by saying I love action movies, sci fi, and killer robots. But this one???
I'm giving it a 2 because, well, I did watch to the end. The DP was also the director... that's ALWAYS a huge mistake. The film WAS shot well, but there was literally NO direction. Action scenes, followed by ridiculous emotional drama, and people doing stupid stuff repeatedly that should have gotten them killed far earlier in the film.
This one had every $%^#ing cliche in the book. The evil bad guy government/military types. Our "unknowning tech guys" who built the robots, and an innocent group of people who just happen to be in the 'test zone" along with an ext military guy...
Now I could forgive the cliches if they actually had decent dialogue, and what they did made any sense.
The dialogue was atrocious. First they call Our hero a Navy Seal. Then someone else refers to him as "Special Forces" (That's Army guys, not Navy.) then the actor himself calls himself a "Navy Special Forces" guy. Really? The writers couldn't look that up? The Navy has Seals, the Army has Special Forces. Why didn't you jut call him a "Marine Recon Seal Special Forces Delta Guy" and cover all the bases?
Not once does our "Navy Special Forces" guy try to trap, ensnare, etc the robots. On multiple occasions, they have the opportunity to do some damage, and instead, they elect to run.
Every
Single
Time...
Even when the damn thing is trapped in some rocks, they manage to get past it, but don't try to disable it. Freaking DUMB.
A bunch of "doctors" who freak out and scream at the first sign of stress, and repeatedly, when being chased by killer robots, they feel the need to scream at the top of their lungs for their friends... how did any of these people pass medical school making judgement calls like that?
The best part of this movie was the little kid. Great little actor.
If you're going to write a movie, get millions to shoot it, then Jesus, do some research... and spend the time writing dialogue that isn't freaking atrocious.
Of course, our ending sets it up for a sequel, which frankly, I'd be amazed if it ever happened because this was just So bad. .
Again, SOOOOO much potential , just wasted.
Robot World (2015)
I really wanted to like this...
I really wanted to like this movie, but it was a jumbled mess.
The high reviews are clearly from someone who worked on this thing, because this movie falls flat in so many ways.
I love smaller independent films, but the script, story, etc, are all lacking, some to the point where it's jut plain stupid.
Spoiler alert: Read no more if you don't want to ruin the already bad movie.
The first half hour of the film is stupidly boring, nothing happens, and the story doesn't move forward at all. I might as well have watched the dude eat toast for 30 minutes.
Our hero, an astronaut, lands on what he thinks is a mysterious planet. he then wanders around, and sleeps a lot. Why? Who knows. I guess he was tired.
Eventually he finds a Jack Daniels bottle, and somehow mistakes it for "alien writing". Apparently he can speak English, but can't read it.
Later, he finds a gun, but doesn't know how to use it and accidentally fires it. What astronaut doesn't know what a gun is????
Towards the end of the film, he finds an old underground bunker, with lots of dead people, and then he puts it all together that he ended up back on earth, but after a major nuclear war, and the only thing left alive are roaming robots still shooting at each other.
Bad story, acting was OK, not great. HORRIBLE editing. The movie constantly cut to black, and the screen remained black for a long time. Clearly the editor didn't know what he was doing, and decided, when in doubt, cut to black.
This could have been a GREAT film, but sadly, wasn't.