Android Insurrection

As most reviews say, awful film. Took me 1/3 of the movie to figure out what the real story was about. Sure it's low budget, but that does not excuse a bad plot, bad script and a silly ending. It was filmed completely in some large industrial building, which in itself is not really bad, but it is supposed to be a mile underground, and there are current era vehicles (film set far in future) and windows in the machine shop, not to mention the 1990's stereo, photocopier, and much more. Guess they did their best to hide much and use the same set-dec for many scenes. I particularly liked the footsteps that do not change sound regardless of the floor covering, speed or force of step - and at times not synchronized with the actual motion. So much random shooting and uncoordinated flash-bangs in this film, and many of the scenes skip over where special effects should have been, cant afford, just skip the frame and hope the viewers don't realize. lol. I shall end with one word, awful.

I am to submit 10 line.... acting? where? action nope. story line? heehaws nope! hot girls.... well maybe. good camera work on aforementioned hot girls? nope :( time wasted absolutely. made me sign up to this website yes!!! there should be fines for movies like this. possibly use as a "how not to" movie..... should not be on any shelf for monetary gain. I'm starting to think that me my phone my buds and a couple of girls from the bar can certainly make a go of the movie industry in the last couple of years.

I was in a glad mood when I started my evening but now its a glum situation!

The plot: A team of elite commandos infiltrate an enemy base to extract a group of friendly androids.

I'm really not sure where to even start. Given the apparent budgetary restrictions, any criticism of this film seems almost mean-spirited, but there are so many problems that you'd have to be a member of the cast or crew to like it. Even their relatives probably wouldn't rate it well. I have a high tolerance for low budgets, bad acting, and crappy special effects. I can even enjoy the occasional Z-grade movie. I'm sure that everyone involved in this project is a nice person, and it looks like they probably had some fun making it... but it's just not a very good film.

The skeletal story involves a team of elite commandos who fight against killer AIs and try to extract friendlies from an enemy base. The commandos are your basic B-movie archetypes who speak in clichés and recycled lines from other science fiction films. The special effects are YouTube-level, though they do show a certain degree of imagination. The acting ranged from amateurish to astonishingly bad. Really, I could have handled the acting if only they had cut the scenes of the guy with the fake German accent. There was no real tension or atmosphere at all. I wouldn't be too surprised if this were actually an amateur film that somehow managed to get professionally distributed.

The only thing that would keep this off Syfy is the language, but it would be trivial to clean it up. My guess is that Syfy fans will probably be soon sharing in our collective pain. If you have a high tolerance for Z-grade science fiction (such as Star Trek fan films on YouTube), you'll might be able to sit through this. I did. The ending credits have a kind of cool song. That was probably the best part of this film. Also, some of the cast are attractive. I'm struggling to find anything else positive to add. If all you want is 90 minutes of mindless violence against robots, I guess you watch this, but there are much better choices.

I have struggled through this, so you don't have too.

This is a poor attempt at a Terminator Salvation knock off. Its so bad. So, so Bad.

The acting is terrible, the CGI is worse, and the story is really really really bad.

It starts so promising with an Android using a Light Sabre and then quickly goes down hill. The ending is disjointed too, and doesn't fit the rest of the movie at all. What were they thinking?

By far and away the worst movie I have seen in a while. The 1.8/10 on IMDb is being far to generous. I'd struggle to give this a 1.

Avoid this movie. Its not good.

A truly magnificent work of unintentional comedy, Android Insurrection is an astonishingly incompetent piece of film making. Sandwiched between opening and closing jumbo-sized slabs of expository monologue, the story is a fairly straight-forward military fantasy. Per contemporary convention, there's an elite team of arrogant meat-heads and hot babes who are the last line of defense against The Threat - in this case, robots. Of course, there are complications, and at least one major character discovery that anyone can see from the beginning of the movie.

Through the course of this tediously familiar journey, the actors stumble over dialog that doesn't serve to advance any story, but really just create argumentative conflict (often, lifting classic lines such as "skin job," and "nuke it from space"). And since we never really learn anything about most of the cannon fodder here, we don't really care when meat hits the fan. Which is frequently.

I'm no military expert, but if I were in a fire fight, I'd probably duck when the shooting starts. But not this "elite team." Sluggishly reacting against computer generated targets that were added later, the cast look as energized as my grandfather putting on the 4th hole at Leisure World. I'd like to blame that all on director Bellware giving his actors nothing but a green screen to act against. But these people can't even carry convincing conversation with one another. It doesn't help that the commanding colonel barks orders with a hilariously awful, stage-comic German accent (and why German, anyway?). But then, there's the red- haired android - a sort of eye-candy slurry of Cherry 2000's Melanie Griffith and the Fifth Element's Leeloo - who combines a clumsy interpretation of robot mannerisms with Valley Girl up-talking. Then again, maybe that really is "artificial intelligence."

In the end, though, there is one nutritious lump in this otherwise thin gruel: the technology design. The non-humanoid robots are really imaginative, and interesting to look at. But they don't carry a movie. Google some still shots, instead.