| Tagline(s): | The Battle Has Begun |
What this movie lacks in riots it more than makes up for in robots. A group of American soldiers sign up for what they think is an advanced training exercise. Instead, they have their memories erased and get dumped into a Hunger Games-style arena where they're being stalked by killer robots. Apparently, a top secret U.S. military program led by the nefarious General Dix (a marvelously scenery chewing Jason Levya, who clearly knows exactly how terrible this movie is and is enjoying every second of it) is testing out several models of combat robots which, for some reason, can only be adequately evaluated in a live-fire death match against our own troops. The soldiers are supplied with adequate weaponry, but with no knowledge of where they are, what's going on, or which of their fellows they can trust, are at a severe disadvantage. Fortunately for them, the combat robots were apparently sourced in a no-bid contract with somebody's cousin because these things make Imperial Stormtroopers look like an efficient and deadly fighting source. Despite superhuman reflexes and built-in autocannons, they somehow manage to avoid hitting even helpless, unresisting humans. Indeed, although the film's opening sequence is one of the soldiers waking up and immediately getting attacked by a robot, and although robot attacks are near-constant thereafter, we manage to make it over an hour into the movie before the robots finally manage to kill one of the humans. These things couldn't be less threatening if they were programmed with Asimov's three laws. Seriously, do not buy these combat bots. Oh, and they go out of control and try to kill everybody. But you expect that of a combat bot. You just expect them to be better at it.
Ryan "Staples" Scott
Ryan Merriman
Jamie Costa
Sarah J. Bartholomew
Cait Brasel
