Yes T-Force is a low-budget B-movie that went strong to video & TV back in the early 90's but it's way better than it probably should be.
Made by PM Entertainment, that Awesome cheap movie production place of the 90's, that created lots of truly awesome action-packed thriller's such as Zero Tolerance, Dark Breed & many, many more. Often their films were a mix of sci-fi action & thriller genres with lots of shooting, explosions & brutal killings & the excellent T-Force is no different. I'm a fan of PM Entertainment & their kick-ass output.
T-Force is a slice of action-packed Sci-fi with a mix of the buddy-cop genre & stars the cool Jack Scalia, he also made the Awesome Dark Breed & The Silencers for PM Entertainment, who plays a hard-ass Detective in a futuristic Los Angeles & isn't happy about all the Robots that live amongst humans. Jack Scalia has those looks of a chiselled 90's heartthrob but with a tough exterior & a sarcastic attitude, basically a perfect leading man for the video store era B-movie genre.
I felt vibes of Will Smith's Detective character Del Spooner from i,Robot (2004) here & T-Force came out well before so i,Robot definitely copied some stuff from this flick.
Jack Scalia is a decent actor that was a big TV star during the 80's & 90's & starred in many B-movies & i like him as he really looks like a hard-ass government agent or something lol. Scalia is great in Dark Breed & The Silencers, both kick-ass ultra cool sci-fi action thriller's directed by the same director of T-Force, Richard Pepin.
Scalia is a tough no-nonsense cop named Jack Floyd (i really liked his hardened character) who has to deal with a new Robot partner (fun buddy-cop stuff here) to track down & stop a team of super Robots called the T-Force (short for Terminal Force) that have gone rogue (Blade Runner style) & are on a killing spree against, what they believe to be a corrupted government. The Robots & wanting to be human stuff is done really well & the robot team of super soldiers that are called into handle terrorist situations are all well played by very well by the actors. Everyone took it serious in a way, there's a dodgy cheesy sex experimental scene between two Robots that is corny & there just for the steamy 90's Erotic stuff that 90's cheap movies did. This is actually a smart little film with that actually makes you think about what is the part that makes us...well us, is it the soul? Or our consciousness! This film asks questions & from the Robots side. Even the reason this crack team of Robot soldiers turn on their creators is done well. The T-Force are to be destroyed after a hostage situation goes wrong & some innocent people are killed but the Robots decide to fight back under "Self Preservation" that is one of their rights. These human looking Robots do not want to Die, just like a human wouldn't want to Die & would fight back. The Robots trying to understand humanity is done incredibly smartly & made me think. The material may be that of action & explosions but there's definitely something more heartfelt underneath it all. A damn good script is & top notch directing made T-Force a cult classic in my opinion. Great character actor Vernon Wells (Mad Max 2, Innerspace, Commando) has a little role as a terrorist at the Awesome explosive beginning action sequence.
I really liked the good robot soldier called Cain played by Bobby Johnston, he did a great likeable job & worked well with Scalia in an Alien Nation way.
There's lots of awesome 90's action sequences & a feel of Albert Pyun's Nemesis with a touch of Robocop & Universal Soldier & of course both Terminator films but T-Force deserves it's place up there with those as a cult classic piece of action sci-fi Entertainment.
I liked the music score & loved how the film looked, the cinematography is typically cool of PM entertainment with everything bathed in cool blue lighting with lots of smoke around & the combination works perfectly.
T-Force is a top action thriller with an awesome sci-fi sheen & a top hard-ass performance from Jack Scalia.
