First, it was an Asylum flick. If you went in with high expectations, you must be new to movie watching.
The acting varied from passable to downright horrible, leaning more toward the latter. The casting wasn't good either, with the Bimbo from Space supposedly a vastly superior creature steeped in wisdom and making complex moral judgments. Others have commented on the lack of reaction to giant robots suddenly setting down near cities -- no mobs, no panic, no nothing actually. The nerve center for the response had to be the cheapest building for rent in LA, with dated computers, anachronistic blueprints, card table props -- it was more funny than anything else.
And some of the scenes were just flat out horrible, especially the baby being born. One second the woman looks about 13 months pregnant (heh), the next second here's the baby, dry (you can even see hair on its head, dry as a bone), no fuss, no muss. Then Mom dies, sort of, but she looks like she's asleep. No sweating, pearl necklace in place. They do "cpr" but never breath for her, and instead of pressure over the heart they are nearly at her neck. Hadn't anyone in the production taken a basic course in first aid? But toss in a few decent special effects, a decent if unoriginal science fiction plot and theme, and it was watchable. The only thing that was really unforgivable was that it dragged interminably in places. The unexciting car chases lasted too long, too much time was invested in 'poignant moments' that weren't, and it was hard not to reach for the fast forward. Not a good movie, but I've seen a lot worse.
The acting varied from passable to downright horrible, leaning more toward the latter. The casting wasn't good either, with the Bimbo from Space supposedly a vastly superior creature steeped in wisdom and making complex moral judgments. Others have commented on the lack of reaction to giant robots suddenly setting down near cities -- no mobs, no panic, no nothing actually. The nerve center for the response had to be the cheapest building for rent in LA, with dated computers, anachronistic blueprints, card table props -- it was more funny than anything else.
And some of the scenes were just flat out horrible, especially the baby being born. One second the woman looks about 13 months pregnant (heh), the next second here's the baby, dry (you can even see hair on its head, dry as a bone), no fuss, no muss. Then Mom dies, sort of, but she looks like she's asleep. No sweating, pearl necklace in place. They do "cpr" but never breath for her, and instead of pressure over the heart they are nearly at her neck. Hadn't anyone in the production taken a basic course in first aid? But toss in a few decent special effects, a decent if unoriginal science fiction plot and theme, and it was watchable. The only thing that was really unforgivable was that it dragged interminably in places. The unexciting car chases lasted too long, too much time was invested in 'poignant moments' that weren't, and it was hard not to reach for the fast forward. Not a good movie, but I've seen a lot worse.