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Excellent but underrated film

Did you people see the same film I saw?

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

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

Yeah, it's a good question - and a rhetorical one too. Judging by the sub-SyFy Channel standard of A.I. ASSAULT, aka SHOCKWAVE, the answer's a definite "no", because this is Z-grade CGI trash through and through. The problem with A.I. ASSAULT is that it's saddled with an absolutely awful, lunk-headed script which starts nowhere and goes nowhere. The characters are cardboard cut-outs, the performances would stink in a porn film, and the direction is sub-par. In fact, the only thing good about the whole movie is a pair of alien robots which dominate the storyline.These creations are shamelessly lifted from Wells' original WAR OF THE WORLD, giant Tripod-things that go around butchering soldiers in various mildly gory (but inevitably cheesy) ways. They show promise, but the premise soon boils down to various characters wandering around an island somewhere, endlessly fighting them off and getting bumped off one by one. It's all very humdrum and by rote; the robots could be exchange for any movie monster in existence and it would all boil down to the same thing.The film's main selling point is the presence of a number of ex-STAR TREK actors who inevitably show up for brief cameos before disappearing again. An indelibly aged George Takei is here, along with Robert Picardo and Michael Dorn. B-movie favourite Tim Thomerson also appears as a stuffy army official. Sadly, none of these actors even come close to making A.I. ASSAULT anything approaching a decent movie.

I learned that this was an original film made by SciFi (or SyFy, I ain't sure when it was made). Apparently that network hasn't learned anything from when it aired "Mystery Science Theater 3000" unless it does have a somewhat sadistically ironic awareness. "Shockwave" (a.k.a. "A.I. Assault") is pretty much like Jim Wynorski's equally repugnant "Komodo vs. Cobra" in that you have a one-dimensional cast of characters that shrinks anytime the villains (tripod ripoffs in this movie or economy-size reptiles in the other one) kill one person. Also notice that all the men are armed & spent much of the movie shooting at the aliens w/ Doc Ock appendages w/o conjuring up better strategies along the way. The women on the other hand can only scream, act scared & look pretty; not the kind of movie nostalgia we'd like as Angelina Jolie or Milla Jovovich flex their biceps & kick ass while they also look pretty. +, the cast has some familiar names, but only at the D-list level (somewhere below appearing on "Dancing with the Stars" or "Celebrity Apprentice"). You got Michael Dorn (Worf from "Star Trek: Next Generation"), playing the African-American high-ranking official who must stare out the window looking concerned & arguing w/ his associates over big decisions either in person or on the phone (& pretty much never leaves the office or communicates w/ the guys in danger of the aliens). You got Alexandra Paul, the "streamlined" (nee, curveless) lifeguard in "Baywatch," who surprisingly is so briefly in the movie that she pretty much makes a cameo. & Joe Lando, the long-haired guy on "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman." Of course I never saw that show so I ain't sure the short-haired Lando was the leader of the heroes or villains. All in all, "Shockwave" proves to you that there are still movies made w/ blockbuster aspirations but w/ indie budgets. Take a note from Joel Robinson or Mike Nelson. Get some buddies to make fun of "A.I. Assault" to stave off any suicidal pain hoping the movie improves.

They're supposed to be Navy Seals according to the banner from Comcast. There are no Majors in the Navy. The Gold Oak Leaf is the rank for a Luitenant Colonel. Also, the Two vertical bars on the "Captain" are the rank of Luitenant in the Navy, not a Captain. A Captain in the Navy wears a silver eagle, and is the equivalent of a Colonel in the other services. If he were Marines, Army, or Air Force, he would be a "Captain", but not in the Navy.It's pretty simple - all of the services in DOD use the same officer structure, EXCEPT for the Navy. The CG also uses Navy ranks, though it is part of Homeland Security (formerly CG was DOT). If you're going to make a movie, TV show, or mini-series, you can at least check the basics.

Another made-for-Tele movie which is completely horrible. There is barely any plot, the acting, writing, and of course the god-awful directing of today's worst director and Ed Wood impersonator, Jim Wynorski, who, when not making terrible plot less porn movies with hideous women, is making crappy straight to video or Sci-fi "original" movies. Basically this is a bad rip-off of War of the worlds, and to top it all off, it's another failed attempt of a Sci-fi original movie. If Sci-fi continually pulls bad ideas out of their ass with overtones of someone Else's' films, then the horror business if being dug to an early grave. Which is sad because I am a horror filmmaker myself of what one may call 'b-flicks' but when I see these computer-generated bloody bull-crap, it makes me want to throw up. If this movie comes on the Tele again, kill yourself, it will make you hate your remaining life.