Voxitype
Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.
Jenna Walter
The film may be flawed, but its message is not.
Ella-May O'Brien
Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.
Woodyanders
Rough'n'tumble electronically enhanced super-soldier Tallis (Don Wilson in strong rugged form) joins forces with a scrappy young gal (winningly played with feisty gusto by fetching blonde Katee Sackhoff) to defeat an army of lethal drones who have taken over the planet. Writer/director Jesse V. Johnson relates the entertaining story at a snappy pace, maintains an appropriately serious and gritty tone throughout, stages the exciting action set pieces with rip-snorting aplomb, brings a likable Grade B pulpy sensibility to the mean'n'lean unpretentious material, and delivers plenty of graphic bloody carnage. The engaging chemistry between Wilson and Sackhoff keeps the picture humming. Moreover, Keith David does lively double duty as both the hard-nosed Col. Norton and the robust voice of an old gung-ho gun, Bokeem Woodbine registers well as Tallis' gutsy combat partner Anchilles, and Dawnn Lewis provides lots of charming spunk as the sultry voice of Tallis' loyal rifle Angel. The sharp cinematography by Robert Hayes gives the movie a funky dusty'n'desolate look and makes neat use of wipes. Marcello De Francisco's spirited score hits the stirring spot. A really fun flick.
Wizard-8
Don "The Dragon" Wilson to date hasn't appeared in any movies since this one was made. After watching this movie, I could understand why he might be reluctant to appear in more movies after this one. He looks haggard and tired here, really showing his age (which may explain why he's not pictured on the DVD box despite being the lead character.) While you may think he'll do his trademark martial arts skills, surprisingly he hardly does any such moves (yes a Don Wilson movie with almost no martial arts!) What really destroys the movie, however, is the low budget and the inadequate screenplay. The photography is poor, many locations are obviously sets, and the story doesn't really make a lot of sense. Is there anything worthwhile here? Well, some battlefield scenes are surprisingly well done. You actually feel like you're in the combat zone watching them, and they feel really realistic. However, since these scenes only take a few minutes of the movie's 94 minute running time, it's not worth going through the long slog to see them.
thekarmicnomad
Good Sci-Fi films are few and far apart. You need loads of money (like Starship Troopers) or inspired, genius film crews (like Cube).This has none of that. The production values are rock bottom, I think the actors probably had to bring their own sandwiches to set.But like most cheap films it is not the lack of money that lets it down. All the sets are over lit and immaculately clean so you can't shake that 'I'm in a studio' feel and the combat scenes (like all cheap movies) consist of a group of extras standing bolt up-right unleashing a hail of bullets to off-screen left, the camera then switches to the good guys crouching behind a barrel firing off-screen right.The good guys blatantly wear bicycle helmets, but no one cared enough to cruise the charity shops long enough to get a vaguely matching set.This film was hampered by bad writing and lack of money, but it was a lack of love and commitment that killed it.Gets a star for a scene where you see Starbuck topless (from behind, in the dark)
Andrew Cross
I think i like this movie so much because it has that feel of so many post-apocalyptic movies like a boy and his dog, cyborg and solder which is some of my favorite movies but i can see that if your not a fan of these types of movies this ones probably not for you or if your looking for outrageous special effects watch mainstream stuff like terminator but if you've ever watched the films above of played games like fallout watch this as for the story i really enjoyed the plot the actors in this film did a good enough job with it but really you don't watch this to see a Oscar performance Bokeem Woodbine death is classic b-movie stuff but I'm giving this movie a 10 because its getting rare that movies about this subject matter are coming out and all and all i really enjoyed watching this movie and would recommended anybody the enjoys sci-fi movies to watch this
