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Robot Overlords
Earth has been conquered by robots from another galaxy and the human survivors must stay in their homes, or risk incineration.
Release : | 2015 |
Rating : | 4.6 |
Studio : | Tempo Productions, BFI, Northern Ireland Screen, |
Crew : | Art Direction, Production Design, |
Cast : | Ben Kingsley Gillian Anderson Callan McAuliffe Ella Hunt Milo Parker |
Genre : | Adventure Action Science Fiction |
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Slow pace in the most part of the movie.
Load of rubbish!!
How sad is this?
Fresh and Exciting
A group of English kids on the run from robots that have overrun the Earth must find a way to defeat them or die.Surprisingly good effects and okay acting. The story line flows well but there is not much to it and most of the situations the are not realistic.I give it six out of ten because it is good for a low budget movie, kept me interested, made me care about the characters and is well paced.
Robot Overloads is a film with an uneven tone aimed at teenagers and harking back to sci fi films of the 1960s. Comparisons have been made to Doctor Who, but that is lazy. The film lacks the warmth and heart of Doctor Who. A more apt comparison was a cheesy 1980s serial, Tripods.The setting is a planet occupied by Robot invaders who wish to study humans. Humans are confined to their homes, a strict curfew is imposed and monitored by implants in their necks.A group of kids set out to join the Resistance. One of them has the ability to interface and control the robots. Chasing them is a robot collaborator Mr Smythe (Ben Kingsley) who has the hots for one of the kids mom (Gillian Anderson.)The film was shot in the Isle of Man and Northern Island. There are some great mountain scenes, the special effects are very good and Kingsley and Anderson lend the film some class.The story was thin, even cheesy. The tone rather uneven for a film aimed at teenagers. Something never clicked and there were times the film was just drab and dull.
Robot Overlords...a look at the poster made me expect something along the lines of Sharknado or some Z-level movie. Oh wait...it's got Ben Kingsley and Gillian Anderson...in a cheap movie about alien Robots. Huh? OK, it wasn't supercheap with a budget of 21m$ but the VFX look like they tried their best but they just don't look real (but not bad either). The thing is: the story is nothing special, in fact it's rather lame. So one has to wonder why Anderson & Kingsley wanted to play in this. They both must have lots of bills to pay I guess. I can't imagine they read the script and jumped on their phone to convince their agent to get them a part in the film. We can conclude that this film hardly adds anything to the genre, the acting is okay and the effects aren't bad but it really does not stand out in any way so I find it hard to recommend this flick.
Greetings from Lithuania."Robot Overlords" (2014) (THAT title!) is campy as hell, but entertaining as well. Turn your brains off, lower you expectations to a minimum, and if you love sci-fi genre no matter movies budget, you can enjoy it as well.I won't go into details of this movie plot, in short it would be : big transformer-type (can transform only to a box actually) alien robots overtake the earth and after some major battles (which due to budget issues were left off screen of course) makes a curfew - all human must stay inside of their houses. Some of them ( Ben "The Paycheck" Kingsley) work for robots as the some sort of supervision of people. After some blah blah blah happens our main hero gets some superpowers and it's time to kick some robot's as-xx. (THAT story!). As offensive or ironic i might sound, but i actually enjoyed this movie for what it is - a low budget sci-fi adventure. Speciall effects are actually pretty good here, and i even enjoyed them more then in recently seen "Insurgent" - seriously. Ben Kingsley - i have no idea what he thought when reading this script - probably as an Englisman tried to help his countrymen in giving his name in this movie - there are no other explanation here, he couldn't do it for money, even N.Cages has more self respect.Overall, turn you brains out, lower your expectations, and skip 4.6 rating at IMDb - this movie is fun if you are willing to go with the plot and premise. It is definitely not bad flick, there are far more worse big budget extravagances out there then this low-budget flick.