Sometimes, getting that mortgage payment over to the bank at the end of the month can be difficult. Or maybe it’s that vacation you want to take that you just quite can’t afford. Or perhaps the transmission on your fourth car is giving you trouble. Either way, Gillian Anderson and Ben Kingsley must have a good reason (maybe one of the above?) for signing up for something called "Robot Overlords," because, WTF.
The film is co-written and directed by Jon Wright, who was behind the decently buzzed 2012 genre flick "Grabbers," and… we’re not sure what happened here. From the dodgy CGI, the "Tron: Legacy"-aping score, the vaguely Tom Cruise looking lead teen actor, and a seemingly incomprehensible story, this looks like a mess. A watchable mess? Who knows, but here’s the official synopsis to make things a bit clearer:
Okay, that has potential on paper, but in execution….well, see below. No surprise, this has no U.S. distribution yet, but it’s set for release abroad in 2015.
\’a seemingly incomprehensible story,\’
You can tell that from a trailer? Kuh.
That does seem a little over snarky Kev.
I saw this at the London Film Festival… it was actually a really entertaining film. It is not a mess, the effects were really fantastic in places but sometimes looked as though they were done on the cheap.. because it is a low budget genre film produced by independent filmmakers in Britain. The script was also really snappy and entertaining, also contained some really comedic dialogue. Its just a lot of fun really… not the best film ever made, but it doesn\’t have to be and was not trying to be that either.
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