Robot Riot

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.

Well, I am sure that there are some robo-geeks out there that might get something out of the 2020 movie titled "Robot Riot". However, if you sit down to watch this movie for the sake of entertainment, I suggest you move along to something else. This movie just didn't cut it in terms of proper entertainment.

The storyline was essentially non-existing. People were being dropped into a hot zone with little or no memory and they had to fight - and wait for it - not only the robots in the zone, but also other people! Yeah, that was essentially it. End of story. Well, end of no-story more adequately.

The acting in the movie was adequate, taking into consideration the lack of storyline, the lack of proper effects and the lack of motivation. I can't claim to be familiar with anyone on the cast list, nor would I be able to single anyone out and say this or that person performed more outstanding in comparison to the rest. All in all, it was a bland performance experience.

The special effects were dubious at best. I mean, the robots were as animated as something you'd see in a 1990s Mech computer game. It wasn't realistic, nor believable. And the movie suffered terribly from it, especially since a movie such as "Robot Riot" should have great CGI, something that will dazzle the audience and leave a lasting impression. Sure, there was an impression from the CGI, it just wasn't a positive one.

I am rating "Robot Riot" a generous two out of ten stars, as this was a low budget movie without anything that even resembled a storyline. I managed to sit through the entire ordeal though, but believe you me, this is not a movie that will ever again find its way to my TV.

Horrible plot Horrible story line Unbelievably bad acting

The story doesn't make sense and there's no logic. But it has killer robots. If you like stories about robots who intend to destroy humanity you can give it a go even though the robots are surprisingly bad at killing humans. Do not expect too much because it will probably not win any prize.

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.