Android Insurrection (2012) Reviews

• very bad

  alexfromhorn2012-06-18

  Very bad. It's not even a b-movie it's way less. The effects aren't even that bad sometimes but the interaction of what's animated and what's not completely failed. Acting was so horrible that I had to laugh but how long are you able to laugh over bad acting? I wasn't long for sure. The story is wacky. The dialogs are so bad that I think some old-school He-Man or Captain Planet dialogs were way better. Screenplay was not thought through. And that woman with the laser sword simply gave me the rest. That was just a big pain for me to watch I don't feel like I will rent any more sci-fi movies in my life because of this. So this is neither recommendable for sci-fi fans nor trash-movie fans because it's just not entertaining.

• Small Wonder had more convincing robots

  jet662012-12-31

  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.

• low budget, B-movie

  hapihakr2012-11-16

  My initial reaction was that it sucks. In fact, I stopped it after the first 10 minutes of the movie and called my cable provider to demand a refund. They had the audacity to charge $4.99 for this 24 hour rental. The rep I spoke with refused to refund me. I went to bed, got up the next day, and gave it another try. I figured I paid for it, I may as well watch it. I'm a big sci-fi fan and I can tolerate a lot of absurdity with bad acting and poor special effects so long as the story line is engaging. After my initial shock, I'd have to say that I was entertained. I'll give this one 5 out of 10. It's definitely not in the same class as Terminator, Matrix, I-Robot, or even Lost In Space ("Danger, Will Robinson!"). But if you like sci-fi more for engaging your imagination than wowing your eyeballs, then this may be entertaining for you. It was for me.

• Not even bad

  pmstone32012-12-27

  It would have to get better to be merely bad. The acting is corny to the extreme. Right up to and including "The Colonel" with the laughably funny, fake German accent. The Hitler style mustache tops it off. I really love the one guy who acts like he's having an epileptic seizure every time he shoots his weapon. As to special effects, my son created better when he took his first computer class in grade school. The guns don't even shoot. The muzzle blasts are added, sometimes not even lined up with the guns. And someone missed one whole scene where one of the mercs was shooting at a robot using something similar to a pump tactical shotgun. She was pumping it and pulling the trigger non-stop, but nothing was happening. The landing ship was interesting. The whole rear end of the ship was all jet engine, which incidentally was an almost exact copy of the tail of a Lockheed L-1011 airliner. But when they landed, somehow a landing ramp extended, apparently right out of the engine. The old style Japanese movies like Ultra-Man are as bad as they come, but they're better then this dog.

• Very poor

  danslabin2012-12-28

  This is a very poor excuse for a movie. If it got better after the first 5 minutes I shall never know because that is how long I lasted before completely giving up on this (movie). It was like a group of movie students had spent their last $4 on making a movie. I paid $1.20 at Redbox and feel cheated - shame on your Redbox for such crappy titles in your catalog. Do not waste your time with this movie, it really is that bad. There are no redeeming features. casting, scripting, editing , camera work, special effects, characterization - failure at all points. I gave this movie one star because there is no option to give it less than one. I love Sci-fi as a genre and have watched a few howlers in my time but life really is too short to be watching such utter drivel.