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Title: Robot Overlords (2014)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Ben Kingsley | ... | Robin Smythe | |
| Gillian Anderson | ... | Kate | |
| Callan McAuliffe | ... | Sean Flynn | |
| Ella Hunt | ... | Alexandra | |
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James Tarpey | ... | Nathan |
| Milo Parker | ... | Connor | |
| Craig Garner | ... | Mediator 452 | |
| Steven Mackintosh | ... | Danny | |
| Tamer Hassan | ... | Wayne | |
| Geraldine James | ... | Monique | |
| Roy Hudd | ... | Morse Code Martin | |
| David McSavage | ... | Watchmaker / Donald | |
| Lalor Roddy | ... | Swann / Survivor | |
| Justin Salinger | ... | Connor's Dad | |
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Jonathan McAndrew | ... | VC Teen |
Alien robots come to Earth and assert their control over humanity. They claim that they only want to observe humanity. They enforce a strict no one allowed outside rule. They implant humans with a device that alerts sentries to anyone who goes outside and if they refuse to comply they are destroyed. They also employ humans to be their proctors. One of these men is Robin Smythe. He tries to get Kate Flynn to be his wife but she still mourns her husband whom Smythe says died. But her son Sean, doesn't believe it. He sends messages out asking anyone who knows anything about his father to tell him. One day he and three young people are fooling around when they discover that they turned off their implant. That's when they go outside and someone answers Sean's message and tells him where his father is. So he goes out to find him But Smythe pursues him and brings his mother as leverage. And when the robots corner Sean he somehow manages to control them. So the Robots are curious why he can ... Written by rcs0411@yahoo.com
Aimed at the CBBC teen market, this reminds me of some kind of Terminator Salvation meets Tripods. (Ask someone 40 plus!)
The plot doesn't seem overly logical to me... The war with the robot overlords has damaged things so much that the homes and infrastructure of the remaining humans are relatively untouched with everything functional. Street lights blaze away, no one looks gaunt or starving with their nice clean clothes etc.
These superkids can disable advanced robot technology very simply, whilst the adults under curfew can still have a good old Victorian style knees up including bare knuckle fighting! Maybe the booze is provided free by the robots so they can study drunken humans? Anyway why travel vast distances across the Milky Way to put us in an unnatural situation for them to scrutinise us? All the Transformers had to do was watch TV and hack the net!
The robot overlords are obviously not that good at Overlording as they need a pantomime human villain to do the more mundane stuff, like kidnapping and using the mind probe machine and other admin duties.
I'm not really sure how he fitted into the plot as the whole premise seemed so ludicrous and un-apocalyptic that I got bored at the point where Gillian Anderson escaped from the castle and stole the horse!
I understand this was low budget but then so were the original episodes of Dr Who. The cybermen made for much better, and scarier adversaries. None of the characters had any depth and the acting lacklustre.
I think the average teen would struggle to get anything out of this film, let alone anyone over the age of 18.