Prototype

Isaac Asimov (the acclaimed Sci-Fi book author) wrote the 3 rules of law concerning, and for, Robot manufacturing... 1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

2. A robot must obey the orders given to it by any human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the 1st Law.

3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the 1st or 2nd Laws.

Unbeknownst to many he later added a law numbered "ZERO", before the first one and which has the highest importance: 0. A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.

The film begins with a Robot 1 prototype killing a worker from the company that has invented it and is testing them and, we NEVER find out why it has broken the Robot primary directive law of no harm to humans. It progresses like this with never telling the viewer anything about anything!

Nothing to enjoy in this film offering of Robot's 1 and 2 who, are opposing home help family robots. 1 is a prototype model - which is very obvious - and 2 is the new superior improved model. For some reason 2 has become sentient (with the same technical flawed reasoning that the Sky-Net) Terminators had. But, as it is an extremely low, VERY LOW, budget and possibly filmed with an i-Phone, there is no plot development or story arc given to viewers at all. What we do get as viewers however is, a VERY badly acted, dull rendition of an idea that has been done on better scales before!

This is the second film this year that I have had to use my Jedi knowledge of controlling the "Force" (to impose a top level of patience and complete concentration) to in order to wade through an unbelievable heap of junk from the Dark Side!

With visuals that are worse than a moshed together Halloween costume, it had nothing that could ease my displeasure through a single grin etc to break the humdrum routine. A grimace is all I could pull from my inner muscle storage of face expressions.

The only thing good I can say about this film is that its Poster is very nice (as a ex graphic designer and as an artist I notice those things first...usually) though, It is also to blame for my ending up watching this dreary techno trash!

I have no idea who made that mask but it's the worst i've ever seen.

You can clearly see a mans eyes and skin under it? Why did they even bother?

You can't take any of this movie serious with that going on, besides that the dialogue is so ridiculous.

I can't rate this any lower than 1 but I wish I could.

SOOO BAD!

Well, sure the movie's synopsis sounded interesting enough, and it was essentially why I sat down to watch the 2022 sci-fi movie "Prototype" from writer Sam Gurney and director Jack Peter Mundy. Sure, I hadn't even heard about "Prototype" prior to watching it, and I am not particularly keen on sci-fi movies. But the synopsis made it sound interesting enough.

And what sounded good on script and paper should perhaps have stayed on paper, because the transition from script to the screen wasn't a good one. The whole movie was just oozing with amateurish atmosphere. And it sort of held the movie back in a very bad way.

The storyline was okay, but not great though. I will say that the movie can be watched, and perhaps even enjoyed if you are a sci-fi fan and can get past the amateurish feel that flows from every single aspect of the movie.

The special effects and designs of the androids was just laughably bad. It was so painstakingly obviously just an actor wearing a synthetic latex face over his own. And no effort had been made to make a smooth transition from the eye sockets of the latex mask to the actor's own eyes. Nor had they even bothered to try to fuse the mouth of the mask and actor together in a seemingly meld. It was just painful to watch, and it made the movie feel even more amateurish and low budget than necessary.

This movie was a swing and a miss, even for a sci-fi movie. And this is definitely not a movie that I would recommend you waste your time, money or effort on, not even if you are a sci-fi aficionado.

My rating of "Prototype" lands on a two out of ten stars.

Oh my, where to start?

The acting: It's inexistant. It is clear and obvious NONE of the people involved in front of the camera - as you can see I refrain from calling them 'actors' - do have ANY knowledge of how to act .... or any skill to start with.

The filming: Someone mentioned an iPhone 6 being used to film this movie and I wouldn't be surprised if this was actually the case. It's so amateurish I would say I have seen better cat and food pictures on social media.

The effects: Yes, I wrote effects, because calling them 'special effects' would imply they are any special .... which they are not. Someone thought it's a great idea to stick a Laerdahl ressuscitation doll's face on a human and call that an android. Believe me, there's more android in a Samsung Galaxy than in this stinker.

The plot: Yes, there is one, which is already more than the rest. Is it any good? Difficult to say because it's difficult to make it out under the amateurish acting, filming, editing and effects.

So why two stars you might ask? Because the cover is well done and actually tricked me into starting to watch this garbage.

The production is ba, i think this was filmed with iPhone 6. Acting sub par. The plot is ok but it's just d- sci fi. I could only take about 10 minutes of this movie. Hope someone likes it.