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Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

Load of rubbish!!

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

During a bout of insomnia a few nights ago, the SyFy Channel came to my rescue with "Transmorphers: Fall of Man," the second film in the Asylum's series of "Mockbusters" inspired by a certain other big-budget film franchise about giant robots. I've never seen the first "Transmorphers," but thankfully viewership of the original is not a requirement here because "Transmorphers: Fall of Man" is a prequel set in the present day (300 years before the first film), so I didn't have to worry about not knowing the back story. (Then again, this is the Asylum we're talking about -- how much back story could there possibly be?) Anyway, in case you haven't figured it out already, "Transmorphers: Fall of Man" is a hilariously cheap knock-off of the "Transformers" series, with some bits borrowed from the "Terminator" films to boot. In a nutshell, a race of giant alien robots have come to Earth intent on eradicating all of humanity. Thankfully, we Earthlings have Shane Van Dyke (pretty-boy grandson of showbiz legend Dick Van Dyke, who also wrote the script here) and "Tron" himself, Bruce Boxleitner, ready to defend us all against the metallic threat. When Transmorphers start transmorphing (?) around their small California town, Sheriff Bruce and Former Army Guy Shane head to the nearest Air Force base (which oddly enough doesn't seem to have any airplanes in it) with a scientist (Jennifer Rubin of "A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors" fame) and a few assorted hangers-on in tow, to join the human resistance. This motley crew spends a lot of time running around aimlessly in the desert, occasionally being chased by badly CGI'd robots, before the group gets organized and attacks a Transmorpher "terraforming" plant, which is apparently one of a series of robot factories designed to change our planet's atmosphere and resources to "better suit them." Or something. To be honest, the script here is confusing at best and nonsensical at worst, and it was the middle of the night, so I may have been nodding off by this point.The special effects are cheap, the acting (other than Boxleitner's) is awful, and the story is jumbled and random. People who pick this DVD up expecting to see lots of metal-clanging, robot smashing action would be better off leaving it on the shelf, as the robotic carnage scenes make up approximately two minutes of the total movie (and all of those scenes are in the trailer anyway!). That said, despite its out-and-out badness I enjoyed "Transmorphers: Fall of Man" in a "so bad it's good" kind of way (which, let's face it, is really the only way to enjoy an Asylum film). I'll even go on record as saying that I liked it better than either of the "real" Transformers flicks. "Transmorphers" was (thankfully) shorter and didn't give me a headache like Bay's movies did.Since there's a new Transformers film due this Summer, I wonder if that means The Asylum has a new "Transmorphers" in the works as well. I guess only time will tell. As for "Fall of Man," I'd say you can safely ignore it unless you're a glutton for punishment like I am. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to put on my DVD of Stuart Gordon's 1990 classic "Robot Jox" and hope it gets the taste of "Transmorphers" out of my mouth.

Saw this on Netflix late one night and decided to give it a whirl to see how bad it could be, and I wasn't disappointed. I can forgive movies made on shoestring budgets (Check out Clerks or El Mariachi) but the makers of this movie are not only untalented, they are creative looters: take a popular movie, rip it off, and give it a similar title. The reasons this movie are bad have been given in the other reviews: atrocious dialogue, bad acting, extreme lapses in logic and continuity, etc. Check these out: 1. The satellite man "transmorphs" then is only seen once again. And when you do, he drops from the sky in one of those "Matrixy" poses.2. When the Nissan SUV (with the logo covered with black tape) spits out the dead driver, don't park it next to the crime scene for the next shot-check the license plate number, it's right there.3. The title card describes an "Airforce" base. Sorry, folks, it's Air Force-2 words.4. As the two government people drive the "doctor" in the Suburban, they go through a checkpoint, apparently into the "Airforce" base, then drive past the same checkpoint numerous times during their conversation.5. Our hero fires not only his assault rifle, but his grenade launcher while sitting in the back seat of a pickup truck that has no roll-down back windows. And there is no brass ejected.6. Our hero is known by the government agents as an expert in UAV operation. How they know that is unexplained, but no matter, the subject is never brought up again.7. When the first robot attacks the Airforce base (which has no Air Force personnel), it is shown walking and shooting, and they use the same shot over and over and over and over again.There is a place for low budget movies, such as the ones mentioned above, but at least put some effort into making a coherent script and story. Don't make a shallow ripoff.

Wow where to start. Hmmm CGI, bad but not terrible. I guess it is like a very bad Sci Fi network show for quality. The way, or rather the reason they blow up is hilarious. Production value is pretty rough. They use the same old refinery from virtually all the Asylum movies. Actually they couldn't even scrape together their usual cast of ever returning actors. Seriously every movie has the same people playing small roles. It does give a certain continuity and ruins less careers I guess.They even manage to get some actors not working for scale like Bruce Boxleitner. However he can not save this dog.The camera crew does a decent job with what they have and the sound is OK. We are talking relative terms here. Ed Wood would call this a masterpiece, but it isn't. One production issue I had a problem with and at this point it would be nitpicking given the nature of these films. Keep the main character's wound in the same spot OK. It was almost never in the same spot. For that matter do people run around covered in their own gore for days on end? Which brings us to some other funny issues. The "scientist" gets a pipe put into her leg that they pull out while in the magical van that transmorphs from a 1994 Chrysler mini that the door wont shut on to a 2000 that is missing its wheel covers. So yes there was a transmorphing in the film. All while travelling very slowly(look out the window, trees are barely moving in the background...priceless) At least it was filmed in a vehicle. This character then limps for about half a scene before becoming pretty much fine. About on par with the girl in Cloverfield when pulled off the rebar.There are so many weird things happening with script and plot you have to see it to believe it. But the most epic part is when the Mayor whos' daughter has an operation(as you are told over and over) ask the scientist about the difference between ETs and Aliens. All I can say is she must have been pretty drunk during the shoot and they wanted to wrap. She is wobbling around slurring and is kinda touchy feely. "Thanks for the respect" LOL. The lines that do come out are incoherent at best and require the Mayor to explain what she meant while one of the other characters is caught rolling her eyes. In fact Dr Drool has a plate magically appear in front where she tied her sweater around her hips after the slurring explanation of what friendly/enemy like bad and good creatures from space are. At this point the Mayor mentions how good he is at cooking. She then remembers her cue but not the location of said magical plate. After wobbling a bit and looking around behind her in both directions, she gets that excited look (like a kid getting a bowl of ice cream)when she find it tucked into the front of her pants. I mean it has lots of funny moments but this was really the best for the 5 people who watched it with me. We had to re-watch it 3 times because we were crying so hard from the stupidity of the scene. "I guess thats a take eh!" Replied one of my buddies. The whole scene probably could have hit the cutting room floor. But it wouldn't have been a feature length film if they had tried to fix all the errors in this dog so why bother.To be fair I would have been pretty drunk while filming this too. I hope they had fun filming it, because it is very funny in a "The Room" sort of way. Better than some other Asylum films and I did like it better than Paranormal Activity. I wish one of the MST3K groups would take a crack at the asylum movies. Pure gold as they are a self parody.I gave it 4 for the effort and laughs, but its pretty bad, my official rating is 1 just so more people will see this ...um movie? Come on bottom 100. It really deserves to be there. Some of those movies don't come close to this bad. Gigli is terrible but at least it was produced and had some actors in it.

A cell phone turns into a Mini-Me Transformer--I mean, Transmorpher. It zaps a dim witted girl in a convertible, then also eradicates some idiot in a van. At this point, I was pulling for the 'Morphers. They were only doing away with fools, anyway.Red flags pop up everywhere with the film's title. This movie is every bit the joke you'd expect from one that packages a morphed title of a recent big-budget film (which was a poor movie to begin with). With a budget of about 99 cents, it's just about as novice and amateurish a production as you'll see. To begin with, there's really no plot; nothing is connected in any way.The robots pop up at random, and the CGI quality varies, as does the power of the 'bots. One minute they're impervious to rocket missiles, the next minute a wild pistol shot from a moving car at extreme distance can bring it down. The bullet-induced Morph explosions were way over done and absolutely hilarious. I love how the Morphers also recoil from projectiles that visibly haven't even hit them yet.The only name actor exits early, leaving the Drama 1A drop-outs to stage weird scenes. The romantic interlude is churned out poorly, maybe just to increase running time. You knew what was coming for most every character, who all seem to be parodies of themselves. In particular, the guy that talked about how "Russians tortured one of these things until it surrendered its memory chip." I laughed so hard I had stomach convulsions. Speaking of the Morphers themselves, they appear to be doing Three Stooges impressions. First they sneak up on victims and beam lasers from behind; then in later scenes they just stand around gawking stupidly.So utterly stupid. It's an Asylum flick, so have a Conkla Cola and a McDanny's Big Quack for snacks to munch while you laugh at this.