Robot Riot

The machines were pretty realistic, if not a bit incompetent at killing people, due to the introduction of Artificial Intelligence (apparently). Comforting to know if that's how A. I. 's going to work then Tom Connor probably WILL save us one day. But I was not bored by Robot Riot, and I quite liked how the plot really DID adhere to the notion of the survival of the fittest. For those humans that really CAN sprint 100 meters faster to dodge 200-round-per-second machine guns fired by incompetent robots - then it's at least rooted in reality - right?

Clearly this was a low budget b-grade film, and although flawed, I've seen much worse with bigger budgets.

The directing wasn't great, but the cinematography was. Sure the CGI wasn't great, but at least the robots were fairly realistic. The story was bland, and didn't expand past guns vs robots much. This movie probably would've been better shot as a short film, instead of the 88 min runtime. There were very obvious plot and technical issues.

The score however, was on point and surprisingly effective, especially for a b-grade film. Most of the cast - that I've never heard of, performed quite well, with the exception of the wacky evil commander played by Jason Leyva, who was terrible and took away from the films seriousness.

Nevertheless, I wasn't bored or falling asleep. That alone in my book makes this film worthy of my 5/10

I have become so disgusted by all of the monumentally terrible modern Sci-Fi / Action simpleton films with zero substance and zero thought and creativity, that I am going to write my own Sci-Fi Action movie script, and it will be better than these pathetic movies. I have no idea what I am doing, I have zero education of any form regarding filmmaking or script writing. I am a carpenter and a guitar player, which carries zero qualifications to write a movie script, but my movie will be better than this trash. Modern movies are made to be played all over the world, and so it has to be made with as little dialogue as possible. Mindless. Useless. Soulless. Heartless, Gutless. Hopeless. It appears that movie budgets have become so small, that they can't even afford to use $5 blood burst packs to realistically simulate a person being shot, and instead, they would rather spend 5 hours to make a CGI bullet strike, that is so unrealistic that it makes me cringe. I must say, that I lack the cognitive capacity to understand the sensibility of using this method. They were making movies in the 80's with ketchup packets for fake blood, and painted backdrops that look more realistic than this guttermeal of modern low budget CGI.

The CGI of the robots is inconsistent... In one scene look almost authentic, while in others are just so fake. Makes me think they tasked student in CGI to undertake different segments... Some CGI students got an A+ while others barely made an F.

I found the story line very week, the acting bad and overall, just a waste of time to watch.

I am thinking which is worse? This movie or Sharknado...?

No SF gold in them thar hills, but the robots look pretty good, despite their inability to hit the broad side of a barn with rapid-fire machine gun volleys. No surprises, but no boredom either. Actors were working hard, too. The type of movie that you can enjoyably leave on while you work at something else.